Monday Morning Motivation: John Butcher

This week’s Monday Morning Motivation is another episode of Jess’s parkrun Heroes. The star of the episode is John Butcher.

John is a veteran runner setting records into his late eighties. Together with friends Colin and Snowy this ‘Last of the Summer Wine’ running crew tour in search of new parkrun records. But running is also about dealing with the loss of John’s wife.

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I love John’s enthusiasm for parkrun and completely agree that it’s important to mix with people with a youthful outlook on life.

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