Derek Osborn took up running when he retired on his birthday earlier this year.
With the Olympics days away, an 83-year-old man who has joined a gym and a running club is urging people to start exercising.
He was becoming "notorious in the athletic club races... the guy who's always last", he said, adding "but I always manage to finish with a sprint".He said that while he had suffered from long Covid, gradually his strength and stamina grew. He explained: "That was hard work and I looked at the video... and it looked like an old man shuffling up a hill.He said he had tried to stay fit most of his life and the first race he did, nearly 7k, took him about one hour and three minutes.
"I'm not competitive with anyone else. I came in last of... two or three hundred runners, but I made it."Mr Osborn said his biggest achievement had been tackling the Wrekin."I dream that maybe next year I might, just might, try for a 10k."
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