Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.
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I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.
My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.
It's kind of like a midlife crisis kind of thing. When you turn 40, you have to run the marathon, while all the parts still work properly.
Plenty of people who are 38 have run really well in the marathon.
I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
I guess I started running when I was about 18 and... I feel like it assists my creativity a bit because it completely just flushes everything out.
Men over 60 often think that if they wear athletic shoes - soft-soled referee shoes or hiking shoes or actual running shoes - then they will look more youthful. The contrary is true.
We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
From Day 1 I wasn't planning to run until I am very old.
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