{"id":22454,"date":"2021-10-01T13:16:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T13:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.churchillretirement.co.uk\/?p=22454"},"modified":"2023-02-01T10:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T10:11:43","slug":"super-fit-ann-is-79-and-still-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/news\/other-news\/super-fit-ann-is-79-and-still-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Super-fit Ann is 79 and still running!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vce-row-container\" data-vce-boxed-width=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-row vce-row--col-gap-30 vce-row-equal-height vce-row-content--top\" id=\"el-eac0e339\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-eac0e339\"><div class=\"vce-row-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-auto vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-first vce-col--lg-first vce-col--xl-first\" id=\"el-1cca7d37\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-1cca7d37\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-1cca7d37\"><div class=\"vce-single-image-container vce-single-image--align-left\"><div class=\"vce vce-single-image-wrapper\" id=\"el-aa1cf7c8\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-aa1cf7c8\"><figure><div class=\"vce-single-image-figure-inner\" style=\"width: 768px;\"><div class=\"vce-single-image-inner vce-single-image--absolute\" style=\"width: 100%; padding-bottom: 133.333%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vce-single-image\"  width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ann-Bruce-Low-with-her-Southampton-Half-Marathon-kit-and-medal-2-scaled-320x427.jpg 320w,https:\/\/staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ann-Bruce-Low-with-her-Southampton-Half-Marathon-kit-and-medal-2-scaled-480x640.jpg 480w,https:\/\/staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ann-Bruce-Low-with-her-Southampton-Half-Marathon-kit-and-medal-2-scaled-800x1067.jpg 800w,https:\/\/staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ann-Bruce-Low-with-her-Southampton-Half-Marathon-kit-and-medal-2-scaled-768x1024.jpg 768w,https:\/\/staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ann-Bruce-Low-with-her-Southampton-Half-Marathon-kit-and-medal-2-scaled-1536x2048.jpg 2x\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ann-Bruce-Low-with-her-Southampton-Half-Marathon-kit-and-medal-2-scaled-768x1024.jpg\" data-img-src=\"https:\/\/staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ann-Bruce-Low-with-her-Southampton-Half-Marathon-kit-and-medal-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ann Bruce-Low with her Southampton Half Marathon kit and medal (2)\" \/><\/div><\/div><figcaption hidden=\"\"><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-auto vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-last vce-col--lg-last vce-col--xl-last\" id=\"el-1690a284\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-1690a284\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-1690a284\"><div class=\"vce-text-block\"><div class=\"vce-text-block-wrapper vce\" id=\"el-ee9270c8\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-ee9270c8\"><p>Super-fit retiree Ann Bruce-Low recently completed the Southampton Half Marathon at the tender age of 79, and she has well and truly caught the running bug with more races on the schedule over the coming months.<\/p><p>Just a few weeks after moving to her new apartment at Churchill\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/retirement-apartments-for-sale\/hampshire\/hubert-lodge\/\">Hubert Lodge<\/a> development in Hythe, Ann was out pounding the streets to complete the Southampton Half in a little over 4 hours, raising over \u00a3200 for the Southampton Hospital charity. She even made a brief appearance on the local news coverage of the event!<\/p><p>\u201cI\u2019ve been a member of the local running club, Hadley Runners, for nearly 17 years,\u201d she explains. \u201cWe meet up for training twice a week and it\u2019s a very friendly club. During lockdown running really helped me as it was a way to get out and meet people, I may not be the fastest but I do enjoy it. Now that races are back on it\u2019s great to finally be able to take part again, and I was pleased to raise some money for Southampton Hospital who did such a good job looking after my husband when he was ill.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vce-row-container\" data-vce-boxed-width=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-row vce-row--col-gap-30 vce-row-equal-height vce-row-content--top\" id=\"el-6fd2b2bf\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-6fd2b2bf\"><div class=\"vce-row-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-auto vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-last vce-col--lg-last vce-col--xl-last vce-col--md-first vce-col--lg-first vce-col--xl-first\" id=\"el-d0318465\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-d0318465\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-d0318465\"><div class=\"vce-text-block\"><div class=\"vce-text-block-wrapper vce\" id=\"el-f230a31c\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-f230a31c\"><p>Having sadly been widowed earlier this year, Ann decided to downsize to a Churchill apartment close to her son, who recommended the move. \u201cI wasn\u2019t keen on the idea at first, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/retirement-living-explained\/is-retirement-living-for-you\/\">retirement living<\/a> is not at all what I expected,\u201d she says. \u201cEveryone here is independent and young at heart like me, they\u2019ve all been very friendly and welcoming, and they all sponsored me for the half marathon which was lovely. My fundraising total has reached \u00a3220 and there are more donations on the way.\u201d<\/p><p>Having successfully completed the big race, her third half marathon, is Ann thinking of putting her feet up for a bit? Not at all...<\/p><p>\u201cI\u2019m doing a 10k this Sunday and then another 10k the following weekend. I may be slower than I used to be, but I love running and I\u2019m not planning on stopping!\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super-fit retiree Ann Bruce-Low recently completed the Southampton Half Marathon at the tender age of 79, and she has well and truly caught the running bug with more races on the schedule over the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Super-fit Ann is 79 and still running! - Churchill Retirement Living<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Super-fit Ann is 79 and still running! 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