Source: CNN
(CNN) — At an age when most pensioners are winding down their lives, Fauja Singh began a new one.
In his late 80s, and feeling “more dead than alive” following the loss of his wife and one of his sons, he took up marathon running.
Now 102, he has become an unlikely celebrity despite a birth defect that prevented him being able to walk until the age of five.
“Running showed me kindness and brought me back to life by making me forget all my traumas and sorrows,” he told CNN’s Human to Hero series.
“When I took up running, it was like meeting God himself. I have been running ever since.”
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