age – solidly middle-aged – are always running in the past tense. The best days are behind them, as are their PBs. Every conversation is a trip down memory lane. They wax nostalgic about 10 or 20 years ago when times were faster, waists thinner

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to rush through”), or offer a dose of Penguin philosophy: that running is a gift to savour, not a cross to bear; that there can be as much honour and excellence in running slowly – even very slowly – as in running fast.So Bingham just engages him with his

-minute mile. I think it's silly. I agree with Wilkie though - runners put more into it and take it more seriously. It's like those annoying people who go swimming in training lanes, and do a bobbing breastroke with their heads about the water so