From The Guardian online…
The secret of the world's oldest marathon runner
Fauja Singh, 100, who completed the Toronto race, says it's all down to avoiding stress
By: Nosheen Iqbal
guardian.co.uk
Wednesday 19 October 2011 15.30 EDT
'Anything worth doing is going to be difficult," says Fauja Singh, the 100-year-old runner who this week became the world's oldest person to complete a full-length marathon, crossing the line at the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront event in eight hours, 25 minutes and 16 seconds. (And he didn't finish last: five came in after him.)
At five foot eight and weighing a little more than eight stone, Singh is a spindly figure under his heavy turban and wispy beard. "Girl, you tell me: has anything you wanted ever been easy?" he says. "I was so worried we [he ran with his trainer] might not make it that we didn't tell our relatives we were doing it. I just wanted to break that bloody record."
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