A Sixty-Something Runner’s Advice to Younger Runners

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I am about to turn 64 years old. I started running when I was 14 after my football coach noticed I outlasted all the other players in the mile run and told me I was now also on the cross country team. I thought that was pretty funny because I’d always considered myself a slow runner, but I guess I already had the endurance I have now.