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The two women have kept in touch since that first meeting, with Ms Gosling attending a half-marathon in Edinburgh to cheer on Ms Hutton.

And Musselman, a few months short of 60, looks prepared to run a half-marathon.

Kiplimo's time is the best single improvement on the men's world half-marathon record.

McColgan believes she was in "the best shape of her life" before she was sidelined, having just broken Radcliffe's 21-year-old British 10,000m record and improving her own British half-marathon mark in Berlin.

Did you really run a half-marathon before doing a matinee and evening performance of “The Color Purple”?