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Age didn’t kill India’s beloved centenarian marathon runner. A speeding car did.
By Omkar Khandekar , Kusum Arora In London in the winter of 1999, running coach Harmandar Singh took on a new student who was older than his father. Fauja Singh was 89, thin as a reed, and had a scraggy beard that nearly reached his chest. For their first marathon training session that November morning,…
Ultramarathon runner breastfeeds her baby 3 times on her way to a surprise win
By Bill Chappell In the sport of ultrarunning, athletes often defy human limits. But at a recent 100-kilometer race in Wales, one runner took it to another level. As seen in photos that quickly went viral, runner — and new mom — Stephanie Case sat down at three points along the demanding race course to…