You will be amazed to see what the human body is capable of if you take care of it and nurture it. Take for example Milind Soman’s mother, Usha, who recently celebrated her 81st birthday by doing 15 pushups or the 80-year-old former CM of Gujarat, Shankersinh Vaghela, who bounced back into his fitness regime right after recovering from COVID-19. Who would have thought?
That being said, a man named Jasmer Singh Sandhu recently celebrated his 62nd birthday by running a whopping 62.4 kilometres! He took to Twitter to post a video of him running and wrote, “Still ahead of my age.”
Have a look:
Today I have completed 62 years of my life and on this occasion completed 62.4 Kms run. Still ahead of my age 😊 pic.twitter.com/Q7IjVgmWyP
— Jasmer Singh Sandhu (@FlyingSandhu) August 25, 2020
He also posted a screenshot of his fitness tracker. According to the screenshot, it took him 7 hours and 32 minutes to complete the run.
Sharing the running details of My 62.4 km run. pic.twitter.com/VCVnzGMXQa
— Jasmer Singh Sandhu (@FlyingSandhu) August 25, 2020
Sandhu claims to have been a heart patient back in 2010 who turned his health, and life, around by running!
Nothing to be sorry about. I was a heart patient in 2010 before I started running. We all learn our lessons of life with time. 🙏
— Jasmer Singh Sandhu (@FlyingSandhu) August 26, 2020
People on the internet loved this ‘challenge’ and were inspired to do the same for their own birthdays. Many said that they would break his record one day!
Who says a person of 60 years is old? @FlyingSandhu Sir is an inspiration.@KirenRijiju Sir, here's a brand ambassador for #FitIndiaMovement 😊.@FitBharat @RijijuOffice https://t.co/l3yTNuNqh2
— Pranav Mahajan (@pranavmahajan) August 26, 2020
Ppl celebrate their birthdays in very wild manners. Here comes a man giving entirely new definition to celebrate not only your birthday but celebrate yor life b'coz your body will enjoy life only if it's fit to tackle it.
— Sanjay Ahlawat (@Darkfantasy1972) August 26, 2020
If this isn’t inspiring, what is? 😇 https://t.co/ApMq9KUY8W
— Niharika Bhatt IPS (@niharika_bhatt) August 26, 2020
Wow Sir ! Truly respect your efforts 🙏
Wishing you a happy birthday and many more years of happy running ! It’s efforts like yours, which are motivating factor for people like me. Next year intend to run 50kms on by birthday 😊🙏— shankar.subramanya (@shankar_subr) August 25, 2020
Wwow……❤️🔥 Such things……make you to sit and think about what you want to do , what are you doing.
Ever inspiring ❤️ https://t.co/act7jK3Oc7— Prabhat Tiwari (@daal_bhaat) August 25, 2020
When I completed my 50, took a solo bicycle trip from Mumbai to Surat but you take the cake sir. Salute!!!
— ࿗🇮🇳 મેહુલ શાહ 🇮🇳࿗ (@imehulshah) August 25, 2020
Respect 🙏, and may you run many more miles ahead 💪👍 https://t.co/uppHOJy98C
— दीपंकर पाठक (@Kal_Ki_Corp) August 25, 2020
Age is just a number.😎😎 https://t.co/LZoh56drEn
— 🇮🇳Bharat🇮🇳🕉🚩🇯🇵🇮🇱 (@Bharat_Veer11) August 25, 2020
What an inspirational run 🏃♂️… happy birthday @FlyingSandhu sir. Tussi great ho 👍🙏 https://t.co/KU3If0Zzwu
— Major Shailendra Singh🇮🇳 (@MAJORshailendra) August 25, 2020
This is so inspiring. Gave me the idea as well. Let’s do it https://t.co/H3XAhzjgOQ
— TheAstuteReader (@TheAstuteReader) August 25, 2020
And me here at 25 can't even run 1km without taking 2-3 breaks. I hate myself 😬
— LiberalExposer!🙈 (@Nitesh02620788) August 26, 2020
Well done Sir. 62.4Km in 62 years. I'll break your record one day. 🙏🌷
— KaptanHindustan (@GautamTrivedi_) August 25, 2020
You are awesome sir 👏 … I m 44 years young but max I have ran is 21 kms and it's my dream to keep running till I live …. GOD BLESS YOU SIR AND YOU BLESS ME 🙏… keep running sir🏃♂️🏃♂️
— 🇮🇳GUJJU ROCKS🇮🇳 (@DevangKaria2) August 25, 2020
Is there a better way to turn ‘old’ than reminded yourself that you’re still ‘young’?