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| Running and Weird Age Juxtapositions |
| Thursday, June 26, 2008 |
The last few weeks have provided a couple of strange age/running related phenomenons. The first one should not have surprised me like it did after years of watching all the ageless runners at local races and MHRRC practices. Still, I had to smile in the middle of a tough track workout recently when I was clicking along at sub 6 minute per mile pace and thinking about the phone conversation I had made earlier that day to sign up for Social Security benefits. I hope all this fitness stuff will help me collect many years of those checks.
The second one occurred today when I went running with three of my former high school athletes. Here I am, sixty-one years old, out for a 6 mile hilly run with three guys in their early twenties. Each of them have 5K PRs of 14 minutes and change. The rule is that when they run with the "old man" the pace can't be faster than 8 minutes per mile. I must have trained them well. We finished the six mile run in 48:24. Since I hadn't had a chance to chat with any of them for awhile, it was great to catch up on what was going on in their lives. |
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