Your Evening Longread: Is it possible to reach peak fitness after 50? Yes

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Tonight's longread - what it's like to get super fit after 50

Image: Shutterstock/Thomas Carlson Image: Shutterstock/Thomas Carlson EVERY WEEK, WE bring you a round-up of the best longreads of the past seven days in Sitdown Sunday.

And now, every weeknight, we bring you an evening longread to enjoy which will help you to escape the news cycle.Peak fitness Not every super-fit person over 50 has a clear “push”. Mags Cook wasn’t particularly looking to lose weight or get fit. “I was always quite a busy person – I didn’t sit around too much,” she says. A retired teacher, Cook, 69, only started running properly at 59 when a friend encouraged her to try parkrun, the national weekly free fun run.

 

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