600th marathon was ‘massive’, runner says before 38th in London

Gina Little, 77, celebrated her 600th marathon. Berlin It took place on Sunday and is now gearing up for the 38th London Marathon.

Mrs. Little, who has run more London Marathons than any other woman, is also preparing to travel to Chicago. There she is aiming to finish her marathon in her major at the Abbott Worlds six times.

There are special medals for runners who have run in six of the world’s major marathons, with Mrs. Little running London 1983, New York 1987, Berlin 1988, Boston 1996, Tokyo in 2010.

Mrs. Little, who finished Berlin in 4:34 on Sunday, is really happy with her time and has set her sights on finishing in under 5 hours because London and Chicago are so close this year. said there is.

Some of her friends from Plumstead Runners also ran in Berlin. Mrs. Little lives in Berlin. GreenwichSouth East London, told the PA News Agency:

“I didn’t realize until I met everyone the massive thing that I did.”

There was cake and bubbly when Mrs. Little returned to the Plumstead Runners this week, but after collecting numbers for the London Marathon on Thursday, she told PA:

Mrs. Little said seeing the 1982 second race pass her way inspired her to run the London Marathon in the first place, and she became a “bug” after the first marathon.

She set a personal best of 3 hours 26 minutes in London in 1993.

While many would like to make the London Marathon polling stations with so many applicants harder to find or run for charity, the faster runners in each age category are more age-appropriate. You can apply anywhere.

Mrs. Little, who has also run the Berlin Marathon more than 30 times, is getting closer to the London race since London was postponed to October due to the coronavirus pandemic. I plan to go back to slots.

Her advice to anyone running a marathon for the first time in London on Sunday is, “Take your time and have fun.”

“Don’t worry about time, you may only be able to do it once,” she added.

“Time can be taken anywhere.”

By running marathons and ultramarathons, Mrs. Little has traveled to 46 countries and 22 islands, including Hawaii and New Zealand. Following Chicago, her next marathon will be in Lanzarote in her December.