The Chicago Lifetime Half Marathon, held on September 24, 2023, had a lot of amazing contenders, but 90-year-old Dot Sowerby stood out among the crowd as she valiantly crossed the finish line with a time of 3:33:47, setting the new American women's record for 90-94 age group. The previous record was set by 94-year-old Harriette Thompson in 2017 at the Rock N' Roll San Diego Half Marathon, clocking in at 3:42:56. "I had looked up her time beforehand," Sowerby says.
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Fountains Abbey picture: DON TOY AN award-winning historian whose interest in the Middle Ages was inspired by childhood trips to Fountains Abbey has exposed a 1,300-year-old conspiracy theory perpetrated in the eighth century. Former Ripon Grammar School student Dr Richard Sowerby, who lectures in medieval history at the University of Edinburgh, has discovered that a group of churchmen in Ripon sold a pack of lies to their fellow monks in order to gain power and influence. The unsavoury plot, centred around a monastery that stood on the site of Ripon Cathedral long before it was built, has now been unveiled in Dr Sowerby’s original and exciting research -‘The Heirs of Bishop Wilfrid: Succession and Presumption in Early Anglo-Saxon England’.