Bad Wigins wrote:
More impressive is those 90 year olds still going 3:34 over 800. That's still actual not-slow running. Put them on a running path and they're passing people.
Aging is exponential. Consider how much worse you likely feel over your 5 years younger self, then magnify it by 10.
Also, he didn't start running until he was 60.
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2020/02/17/long-run-97-year-old-roy-englert-sr-ba43-defies-his-age-every-time-he-takes-to-the-track/