Sep 23, 2026 · 56 min · 10 segments
Email us Three letters can undo months of training if we let them: DNF. We’ve both seen how “did not finish” gets translated into something far harsher, and today we slow it right down and tell the…
Now, Dawn, that's a very long...
I haven't even looked at the time, about 15 minutes.
Have you got any news this week, Dawn?
Yes, I have.
So the one thing that – it was a statistic I looked at the other day because we've spoken a lot on our detectives about where are the midlife women.
And basically the 2026 World Masters 100K Championships, the largest women's age category was 45 to 49.
Wow.
That's really good, isn't it? You know,
that's 13 women in that.
That was the biggest bracket.
So while we talk about women disappearing from sport as they get older, ultra running is slightly different.
It's telling us something different.
So
in other
sports, it disappears.
So midlife women aren't necessarily disappearing.
Some of them are running 100 kilometers in world championships.
Is this the races where you get picked? For your country to represent.
Is it that one? Yeah, I
think so, yeah.
I like it
when they call it Masters because that's an American term, isn't it? We call it veterans.
An ultra runner,
yeah.
Yeah,
Now, Dawn, that's a very long...
I haven't even looked at the time, about 15 minutes.
Have you got any news this week, Dawn?
Yes, I have.
So the one thing that – it was a statistic I looked at the other day because we've spoken a lot on our detectives about where are the midlife women.
And basically the 2026 World Masters 100K Championships, the largest women's age category was 45 to 49.
Wow.
That's really good, isn't it? You know,
that's 13 women in that.
That was the biggest bracket.
So while we talk about women disappearing from sport as they get older, ultra running is slightly different.
It's telling us something different.
So
in other
sports, it disappears.
So midlife women aren't necessarily disappearing.
Some of them are running 100 kilometers in world championships.
Is this the races where you get picked? For your country to represent.
Is it that one? Yeah, I
think so, yeah.
I like it
when they call it Masters because that's an American term, isn't it? We call it veterans.
An ultra runner,
yeah.
Yeah,
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