A man turns 40 and realizes mortality is real. He goes from couch to marathon in ten months, then runs another. His father tells him the 50s will pass in a blink, which changes how he sees time.
My dad told me once— I'm close with my dad, and I would call him while I was running. And it's funny, turning 41— when I turned 40, I realized I was gonna die someday. And I was like, oh shoot. And that's when I started running. And I started running, and I ran couch to marathon in 10 months. And then I did that same marathon a year later. And I like started really pushing my body and my mind in new ways, 'cause I realized I am not gonna be young forever. And that was a transformative, fantastic, beautiful experience. And sometimes when I run, I talk to my dad. My dad once said, he's like— I said, Dad, time is speeding up. It just feels like weeks are days and months are weeks. The months are just clicking by and it's like, already Christmas again? And he's like, you know what? You will blink and your 50s will be over.
