
Meet Gwen McFarlan, the 81-year-old world record marathon runner
We met Gwen McFarlan on July 1st, when around 30 members of the Forever Young Running Club in Richmond met to go for a run and to celebrate Canada Day. Tall, with fair skin, soft eyes and a lovely smile, Gwen was different from what we had envisioned a legendary world record holding marathon runner to be like. When we started running, the group was split in several subgroups according to their speed, from the faster 9km runners to the slower 5km walkers. Gwen would probably h