2023 Age Group World Championship Profiles: Mary Slocum

Name: Mary Slocum

Nationality: Ireland

Category: F60-64

Fastest Major: 3:11:44 (London 2023)

Total AbbottWMM Stars: 1

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In 2022, Mary Slocum won her age group in London with a time of 3:13:26 to take the crown, and she will be lining up to defend it on October 8 in Chicago

It will be her first trip to the United States, and another chance to take inspiration from her ate husband, who encouraged her to see just how far she could take her running success before his death in 2017.

“He had always said to me I could’ve been really good if I’d started younger,” she says. “After he died I really only went to give it a go, but it was a huge help. I made a lot of new friends, and it was something to do at the weekend that kept me going. I’m a coach at the club now, I’m on the committee and I write club articles for the local paper. Sometimes I do too much! But it helped enormously, I’m proud of what I’ve achieved and I like to think he’d have been proud as well.”

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