About Sarah Elson-Rogers

I am British, married with 2 elementary school-aged children. I had a proper career as a Senior Project Manager for the European Union until I moved to the USA (North Carolina) in 2008. In 2012, I followed my husband to Zambia in Africa. While in the US, I was a regular columnist for the Wilson Daily Times and North Carolina News and Observer. I have started a blog on running in my forties. I love economics, politics and history. I am trying to learn how to love cooking, sewing and domesticity (products of each - laughable...). But I prefer to write...

Running in my forties

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I have been many shapes and sizes throughout my life. Fat kid no-one wanted on their team. Superskinny teenager who smoked and starved herself thin. Pushing a size 14 (UK sizes) in my 20s. Boyfriend troubles returning me to skinnydom in time for my 30s. Soon followed by marriage (not to the boyfriend) then children [...]