Runner's World Turns 40

The 40th anniversary issue of Runner's World is really well executed. Reminded me of when we put together our 20th anniversary issue of my old magazine. But they have a nice metaphor to take advantage of, with masters' running starting at age 40, so they profiled a bunch of record-holding oldsters, from 41 years old to late 80s. One of them is a jazz trumpeter/marathoner who's played with Stevie Wonder and many other greats.

As I looked at the picture of one woman who appeared in her 60s, tanned and fit in shorts, a "fitter over 50" T-shirt and a neat cap of silver hair, I was thinking her skin looked like it had suffered from sun overexposure. Then I read the caption and find out she's in her 80s! Amazing. Exercise is the fountain of youth. She said a kid wrote to her, "I hope you keep running until you bite the dust!" And that's what she intends to do.