There are many examples like the Indian Fauje Singh, who completes
marathons at the age of 100 years. Or the German Clemens Wittig, who still has
fabulous times on long runs at 75 and holds several age-group records.
Even the 63-year-old Hajo Palm impresses with fitness. If you can handle
the rock-hard desert race "Bad water Run", you can be sure of that. The
Canadian Ed Whitlock, who still strolls daily around the cemetery at the
beginning of 80, is another example. And still runs times that other ambitious
long distance runners only can dream of. At age 73, he ran a three hour
marathon! No one has ever done that before.
Are these only exceptions? At the time yes, but the exceptions are
becoming more and more the rule. Old age is not what we have learned in the
past. It needs a complete different approach.
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| Master Horst D. Lindenau running a 10 km competition in Bremen/Germany |
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