Dave Winch: 3:12 marathon aged 70
SHORTLY after my 75th birthday I held both the over-70 and over-75 records for Margate parkrun and I used to check the latest results every Sunday to see if they remained intact.
Neither was particularly good and it was no surprise to see the over-70 record consigned to oblivion. What did come as a shock was to see that it was improved by more than seven minutes – and that it was Dave Winch, whom I had last encountered in the early 1990s when we were of more or less equal ability.