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‘I’ll keep doing it as long as I can’: Harry Newton, London Marathon’s oldest runner at 88

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‘I’ll keep doing it as long as I can’: Harry Newton, London Marathon’s oldest runner at 88
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Retired grocer from Macclesfield is proof that running is not just a young person’s game after only starting his journey at the age of 57At a time when running has never been more popular with generation Z, one man is proving that it is not just a young person’s game. The oldest athlete in this Sunday’s London Marathon is 88-year-old Harry Newton – whose remarkable running journey only started by chance when he was 57.Since then Newton, a retired grocer from Macclesfield, has completed 31 marath

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