Clare Elms: The World Record Holder who Started Running Aged 40
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2024
- A mother to triplets, who only started running in her 40s to help cope with the stress of parenthood, Clare Elms has raced her way to multiple British and World Records. After recently turning 60, we followed Clare as she attempted to seal the W60 3000m Record.
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MINOR EDIT: Clare is the oldest ever woman to break 5 for 1500, but not the first in her category. That was achieved a few weeks earlier by Anne Gilshinian (born a year after Clare). Apologies for the mix up on wording! 🫡
Both Clare and Anne are fabulous athletes!
As a 62 year old, after watching this, I suddenly feel much younger. That was inspiring.
so glad it made you feel motivated!
Such an inspiration to me. I’m a 53yo man and I took up running 4 years ago. This year I’ve pb’d in most distances. I have a sub 20 5k, a sub 40 10k and a sub 1:30 half. After watching this I think I’m setting myself up for a competitive 60+ in a few years time.
🙌🏻 glad you found it motivating!
Wow
I very much hope so. As I get older, I'm finding that it's most difficult to avoid injury, so I feel like strength exercises for the feet, legs, and hips are important. I'm only one data point, though.
Thats very impressive. When in the army at 20 I achieved the same times as you, but after a lot of training. So well done. Keep to the same plan it’s obviously working. Im 49 now and 22:22 for the park run. Training for sub 20 again.
@@MrN8073 thanks for the encouragement. Improving running is hard and we all need all the inspiration we can get. Keep smashing your Parkruns.
She’s a role model who proofs that’s never to late to start running. Great.
100%!!
Saw her at Southwark parkrun a few times. Amazing 😊
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This is inspiring. I did an Ironman at 40 after brain seizures, now after a heart attack 20 years later, I look forward to qualifying for the World Championships in Hawaii asap! .... Respect, Clare 😎
Best of luck!
For any runners wondering Clare's pace was 3.31min/km. So impressive!
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What's this in min/mile
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@@rajmathew6220 5.3 min/mile 😰
wow
Such an inspiration, I my self started running at 40, never run before, 4 months later I can definitely say I'll never stop running as long as I'm able to.
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I’m not sure if I’ve heard of Clare before but she’s amazing, and this is a lovely, inspiring video for any runner. (And I've been running for 51 years.)
pleased you could enjoy it!
Great journey. congratulations. I’m a 69 old runner/triathlete and have started making the podium in my races. Showing up at the starting line is the win for me and anything that follows is pure fun.
That is awesome to hear!
Two legends: Clare Elms and her friend who offered to take care of her *triplets*
Haha very true!!
Omg I assumed this video popped up for me as I am training for a 5k pb but I also have triplets! Running has been such a wonderful escape for me and helps me bring my very best back home to my 3 beautiful boys❤
That is awesome! So glad you found the video 🤝
What an amazing lady. Inspirational for everyone. Good runner for her age is an understarement. An amazing runner, period
@@531c a great athlete 🙌🏻
Bravo Bravissimo Clare! 🥳
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Amazing athlete 😃💪
@@davidspencer8233 agreed!
Clare is absolutely incredible. Got a bit emotional with the world record text overlay at the end. A great reminder that it's never too late to find and start something you love. Thanks for sharing this story!
Our pleasure! Thanks for watching 🙌🏻
WOW! amazing story!! she discovered what her gift is~ Thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
So she was running at a 5:21 mile pace for anyone looking for the conversion
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I've trained and raced with Clare many times - she is always an inspiration with her dedication to running and the amazing level she is at.
great to hear!
Clare lives across the road from me! She’s lovely! I often stop with my little chihuahua for a chat when I see her 🙏
That’s a fast neighbour!
@@the.distanceproject Rodney my chihuahua would deffo have her over 50m’s haha. 1500m’s, maybe not so likely 😅
Cracking video, lovely humble but inspirational person. She's obviously at the very top level but tells you a lot about the grass roots, too.
Couldn't agree more!
Incredible story. Great stuff chaps, the best to do it!
Thanks for the support Dan!
Really inspirational! I feel so lucky to have joined a club with a good number of very talented veterans. They're always willing to spend time and share their knowledge with new members/runners too.
We'll skip the bit where I'm almost 40 though 🤫
Absolutely!
A wonderful athlete, never forget one Winter Saturday morning parkrun over 10 years ago at Bromley. There was sheet ice on the tarmac path sections ( before we even thought about having to have alternative ‘winter courses’ and certainly would have been cancelled nowadays ). The majority of runners that day were struggling to stay on their feet getting from the car park to the meet point, Clare wandered up to me with her usual determined look and asked ‘ do you think it will take a long or short spike? ‘
Great story!
Amazing for her age! Appreciated the story
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent video. Thanks for shining the spotlight on masters running, and who better than Clare.
There are many other super impressive masters out there - inspirational athletes who many watching will be able to relate to more readily than the top senior athletes you typically cover.
Thanks for watching, much appreciated. Whilst many people can relate with Clare’s story, there is also a place for the top elite athletes we also cover :)
@@the.distanceproject of course, I didn’t mean you don’t cover them - indeed you should continue to focus on them. Just that there is a place to do more pieces on masters!
What an inspiring story Clare! That was was a great watch!
Well done Charlie and "The Controversial Corner" Host Callum 😂
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed the podcast 🙌🏻
Loved this! Clare is such an impressive athlete. I felt so happy for her when the text flashed up at the end to say she’d got the record soon after. It feels like theres’s not nearly so much airtime for masters athletes so kudos to TDP for showcasing different content and giving different athletes a platform. Just goes to show, its never too late to get started!
Couldn’t agree more! There’s a lot of stories out there… just need the time (and budget!!) to share them 🙌🏻
My gosh, this lady is *fast*! As a father of twins myself, I can completely understand her point about needing the time and space and choosing running to get that (I started running seriously for similar reasons...). What a legend, super well done. May she continue running into her 90s!
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Another fantastic video, another great inspirational story. Clare is amazing!
She is fantastic, agreed! Thanks for watching.
For info Clare broke the UK W60 5000m mark today to go with her previous records this year at 800m, 1500m, 3000m and road mile
Yep! Outstanding run 🚀
I started at 35. Just turned 41 and only getting better ❤. Great story.
Great to hear!
Similar here. Started at 47. Running Master's Nationals middle distance 18 months later.
Love this! Thanks for the great content and shining a light on masters running. Currently navigating return to track after 3 little ones so resonate a lot with what Clare talks about! Clare you are amazing 🤩
You can do it!
Amazing athlete!
We agree!
Awesome, Awesome, Awesome
thanks!
Bloody impressive. Great video
Appreciate it! Clare is a superstar.
@@the.distanceproject a very talented family!
Clare’s a lovely woman and a great runner. Also seen in the video (warming up with her) was Steve Smythe, who was the first person to run sub-3 hour marathons more than 40 years apart. You should get him on the channel too.
This seems to be the best path for a master's start at 40 takes 10 years to reach your peak knowledge and know how.She a great athlete with a strong frame you can tell by the way she moves
@@alvarojrgalo926 she’s a great athlete 🙌🏻
This is so cool!! So awesome to see a diverse range of athletes on your channel (awesome to see you’re back running too CE!)
Thanks so much!!
I’d love to see her do iron man. I think she’d slam it!!
Who knows!
What an inspiration! As always, thanks for sharing these athlete’s stories ❤
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Another really interesting (and well put together) film and great to see a feature on one of our truly World Class Masters Athletes. Sits very nicely alongside those features on some athletes trying to break through as being under the radar to the more casual viewer
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the great feedback.
She has the strength and athletic body posture of someone in their early 20s.
She’s a great athlete!
Great video Callum; thanks. Really inspiring to feature a female masters athlete
@@38sep thanks for watching 🤝
Great video, very inspiring! Thank. you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow , from behind she looks 18! Gorgeous physique. As a 53 year old female still competing, she gives me hope for my 60 th decade, go girl!!
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Talented and hardworking. 😊 The UK has some awesome masters women!
Agreed! Clare is a great role model!
Gosh clare is amazing and inspirational!!!! I spoke to a nice chap called alastair watson who holds some v45 records and he suggested i try a track race...did my first one aged 42 and loved it. Think its prolonged how long i want to keep going by at least a decade as i can compete against people in my age category, be social and its less obvious ive lost a tiny bit of gas.
Great to hear! Alastair is a classy athlete, still good enough to compete with people half his age! 🚀
Enjoyed the video obviously. Apart from her world records at the 1500m (4:57.14) and mile (5:25.19) road mile world best (5:21) and world indoor records at 1500m (5:05.44) and mile (5:30.89) and UK records at 800m (2:29.64) and the 3000m here (10:33.34) Clare has bettered the previous British records in 19 of her 50 odd races in 2024.
Yep! Would have been an awesome project to follow her all year! Thanks for watching the video 🙌🏻
Wow, huge respect!
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Happy to having me. No way, they should say, We are happy to having you!
@@viktorask the feeling is mutual 🙌🏻
Nice job of pacing Will :-)
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Great Great work Clare Clare Hi fives Sasu & clare
Thank you! 😀
She has such a beautiful stride.
@@octoberscamp 🙌🏻
Kudos
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@@the.distanceproject Great to see some Masters content on the channel, given how healthy the league and race scene is in the UK - very true to your channel ethos. Thanks.
@@5OCTrackClub-dx4im thanks for the feedback … hopefully we can do a little more in the future! Particularly interested in documenting an international championship!
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I’ll be 46 next month and I just started running. I never thought I would actually like it at my age and in my condition. I basically have been a couch potato for the last ten years 😂
Never too late! I hope you continue to enjoy it 🙌🏻
A M A Z I N G
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Credit to the person who advised her to join a club.
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Damn! she's faster than me and I'm 29
Yep, she’s faster than most people!
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I didn't until half way through the video that I am actually 60 also
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What was the distance as I missed that detail.
3000m
@@the.distanceproject thank you
Having been running for more than 50 years I think the key to her success is that she started out late in life where her legs didn’t get pounded over decades since her youth. Either that or she would have been proportionally good when she was younger due to talent, somewhere in Mary Decker’s caliber. We’ll never know but good for her nevertheless
Impossible to know, everyone develops differently! Only thing for sure is as a V45,50,55 and now V60 - she’s smashed it!
I've found as soon as I reached 50 my motivation has plummeted. I will try but it's getting much harder. The triplets will look after their mum and be taxpayers while a city job won't do the same job. Also, you may never have taken up running.
Clare's motivation and love for running is higher than ever!
I still don't understand why people run.
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I don't get running 😮
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It is a huge mistake for women to have kids, also a very big mistake to not follow your call in sports when it is so clear, she made all the wrong decisions until the very end, it is good that she finally is running.
I didn’t want to give this comment airtime, but worth saying we whole heartedly disagree.