Irongran: How keeping fit taught me that growing older needn't mean slowing down

'If I can start to run at 50 and become the oldest British woman to complete an Ironman, everyone should realise it's never too late'

At the age of 50, Eddie Brocklesby decided to run her first half marathon. Until that point, she'd done little running, and her exercise regime consisted of little more than chauffeuring her children to their own sports clubs. In common with so many people, any interest she'd shown in sport in her childhood had diminished as her adult life progressed, with spa...