“It’s not about being elitist or selective. It wouldn’t be a community if it was like that”
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Sorrell Walsh, 28, is on a mission to promote equality and female participation in running… and she is truly leading by example. From setting herself the mission of changing the male-tofemale ratio in ultra-running, to coaching and supporting schoolgirls, to deciding not to run the Boston Marathon until she achieved a male qualifying time, Sorrell lives and breathes her values. But what started her own running journey?
“I started running properly eight years ago, when my eldest brother, Eden, was doing the London Marathon”, remembers Sorrell. “I was like, why are you going out on 20-mile runs? That’s so weird! Why would you do that to yourself? But then I decided if he could do it, I could do it.
“There was a mile loop around my parents’ house, so I used to do that and finish dry heaving – it was a pretty horrible experience! But then, as with everything, you get through it, and I just kept building my mileage up from there.”