When I was 25 years younger I used to wonder when I& #39;d give up running, thinking maybe I& #39;ll go to 60 and then decide.

Actually in my mid-60s I was running best ever - within 9 sec of going sub 19 in 5k, missed sub 40 for 10k by few sec only b/c cop sent us down wrong rd. 1/

I could& #39;ve made both those milestones except they weren& #39;t goals; Ironman was. So in mid-60s started training for IM. That hurt my running speed. Didn& #39;t care. IM was the new thing. I don& #39;t regret IM, but I did get bored with it after a few years. That& #39;s a whole nuther story. 2/

Now coming up on 80 (2 mo) wondering if it will bring what I though 60 might. IDK, a long time I& #39;ve been sailing unchartered waters, beyond the reach of running& #39;s conventional wisdom or coaching gurus. I wudn& #39;t exactly call it self-coaching as much as keeping my own counsel. 2/

(Because who in the whole round world holds the double-blind studies that prove the effectiveness of doing any certain thing for someone in his/her upper 70s running crazy long stuff. How you gonna find enough runners of that age to do a statistically significant study?) 3/

What brought on this thinking as I prepare to turn 80? Coronavirus.

Races I& #39;d picked for AG record attempts have all been snatched away, cancelled or postponed. Normalcy seems remote. So it may happened that not age-80 but rather coronavirus that brings my running coda. [fin]