Purdue began competing for Aldershot, Farnham and District Athletic Club around the age of thirteen. She also practised ballet, achieving UK grade five. She won her first national youth titles in 2006, winning the 3000 metres at the AAA under-17 championships and the UK School Games, as well as the English under-fifteens cross country title.[6] She quickly progressed to international competition and came fifteenth in the junior section of the 2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – the best European performer in the race.[7] She was the youngest runner in the 5000 metres field at the 2007 European Athletics Junior Championships and finished in tenth place.[8] She won the UK junior trials for the 2007 European Cross Country Championships and went on to take the individual bronze medal and team gold medal at the championships, which she shared with fellow British junior Steph Twell.[9]
Purdue returned to competition in June 2010, coming seventh in the 10,000 metres national championship race.[6] That August she improved her 5000m personal best to 15:23.4 and also bettered her 10,000m mark with a run of 32:36.75 (a junior record for the United Kingdom).[17] She earned selection for both events at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. After a second-place finish at the Yorkshire Run,[6] she headed to New Delhi where she came fourth in the 10,000m final and sixth in the 5000m.[18] She won the junior race at the European Cross Trials in Liverpool in November and went on to take the individual and team titles in the junior race at the 2010 European Cross Country Championships.[19] In her last year as a junior runner, she easily won the competition with seventeen seconds to spare over the runner-up.[20]
She did not compete from July 2012 until October 2013. Having recovered from injury, she returned at the Great South Run and managed third place at the ten-mile race with a time of 56:57 minutes.[29]
On 7 September 2014, she set a personal best for the half marathon 1:14:43 on the course of the Great North Run.[30]
On 24 April 2016, Purdue completed her first full marathon distance having run the 2016 London Marathon. As a part of the women elite group she took 16th place overall and third among the British competitors with the time of 2:32:48.[31]
On 23 April 2017, Purdue ran her personal best time in the marathon at the London Marathon in two hours and 29 minutes and 23 seconds, finishing second Brit behind Alison Dixon.
On 6 August 2017, Purdue finished 13th at the IAAF World Championships in London in a time of 2:29:48 and was the first British female across the line.
Charlotte Purdue competing in 2019 London Half Marathon.
On 2 February 2019, Purdue set a new personal best for the half marathon, clocking 1:09:46 at Marugame in Japan.[32]
Having won the inaugural event the previous year, on 10 March 2019, Purdue won the Vitality Big Half London half marathon in a time of 1:10:38.[33] In 2021, she won the event for a third time.[34]
On 3 October 2021, Purdue moved to third on the British all-time list running 2:23.26 at the 2021 London Marathon.[35]
At the 2023 Berlin Marathon, Purdue moved up to second on the British all-time list as she finished ninth in a time of 2:22:17.[37]
In February 2024, she was named in the Great Britain marathon team for the Paris Olympics.[38][39] Purdue withdrew from the Olympics just days before she was scheduled to race due to an ankle injury during her final practice run.[40][41] Purdue was replaced by Clara Evans.[41]
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