It's an overcast Saturday morning in September and the world's most famous parkrun is about to begin. Runners of many shapes and sizes have assembled at Parkrun's birthplace in Bushy Park and there's the usual hint of anticipatory tension. In the Diana Fountain car park, however, the mood is one of uninhibited hilarity. At least it is if you're anywhere near the bit of cardboard on a stick reading ‘80 AND OVER MEET HERE' (right).
A few yards beyond, octogenarians are milling and bantering like over-excited children. ‘Are you sure you're 80? You don't look it', says George Frogley, greeting yet another grizzled new arrival.
Frogley, who is chronologically 86 but looks a robust 60 insists he is not the instigator of the gathering. He blames it instead on Richard Pitcairn Knowles, 87, a retired osteopath from Sevenoaks.
‘It started a few years ago,' explains Frogley. ‘Richard
