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He's an extreme example but in marathons the 30 and 40 age groups tend to outperform younger runners. Aerobic fitness keeps accumulating and tends to decline very slowly with age, at least until people get into their 70s.

The amount of time I hear age related complaints about being too old or feeling tired from people my age, (which is early 30s!) is kind of nuts. People are incredibly in their head about age in our culture.



"the 30 and 40 age groups tend to outperform younger runners"

Source on that? This seems to show the opposite: https://marathonhandbook.com/what-is-a-good-marathon-time/#:...


https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2019/apr/...

That's Strava data and also tracks with my personal experience, no idea where that site get's its data from.

Here's some particular data from Boston, NYC and Chicago also bearing that out.

https://www.runtri.com/2012/01/marathon-finish-times-by-age-...




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