84. Paul Tonkinson: Running Through Sand
Ageing as a runner is no joke: as comedian and writer Paul Tonkinson can attest. In running, as in life, you are gradually overtaken by a stream of younger people wearing clothes you couldn’t get in to. What most runners don’t do in their mid-50s is commit to competing in the Marathon des Sables, an ultra-marathon through the heart of the Sahara Desert. Tonkinson has done the training, suffered the (repeated) injuries, applied the toe jelly and located the mandatory whistle. Can he do it?
Seasoned ILF host Becky is primarily a ghostwriter. She has written for pink-pound entrepreneurs, survivors of trauma and abuse, mindfulness mentors, pole dancers, photographers and (nearly) a panto star. Her regular columns for The Yorkshire Post and Families Magazine were often a humorous take on life juggling teenage daughters, a mother with dementia and a dad whose ashes lived in a wine bottle in the kitchen cupboard.
Event Details
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- Date: Saturday 17th October
- Time: 6:15 pm
- Price£12/9 concessions
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