The inspirational story of athlete Jo Pavey the runner & mum who ran at a record-breaking fifth Olympic Games at Rio 2016 ' Come-back races? I've had more than a few the night of 10 May 2014 was the ultimate long shot I was a forty-year-old mother of two who had given birth eight months before I trained on a treadmill in a cupboard by the back door & I was wearing a running vest older than most of the girls I was competing against Was I crazy?' Jo Pavey was forty years old when she won the 10000m at the European Championships It was the first gold medal of her career & astonishingly it came within months of having her second child The media dubbed her Supermum' but Jo's story is in many ways the same as every mother juggling the demands of working life with a family
- the sleepless nights the endless nappy changing the fun the laughter & the school-run chaos The only difference is that Jo is a full-time athlete pushing a buggy on her training runs clocking up miles on the treadmill in a cupboard while her daughter has her lunchtime nap & hitting the track while her children picnic on the grass Heartwarming & uplifting This Mum Runs follows Jo's roundabout journey to the top & all the lessons she's learnt along the way It is the inspiring yet everyday story of a mum that runs & a runner that mums