Today is your day Boomer! What do you do on your birthday? One Boomer in BC does something very special every year....something you or I likely wouldn't do. He does a marathon run to match his age, and this year....yup, at age 62, he ran 62km! Dave MacDowell says "I've always tried to celebrate my birthday by doing something outside, whether it's going for a long run, or climbing a mountain and skiing down, or riding my bike as far as I could go; It's just to start off my next year by achieving a goal, and it feels great." Dave often runs with his wife, Tracy, who is an internationally-recognized runner of ultra-marathons —  a race that is any distance over the standard marathon distance of 42.2 km — and takes inspiration from her partner in life and training. And Boomers, Dave has some advice for us; he says age doesn't matter: "I'd rather not quantify my years with a number that's just a random number — this is how old you are — because I think there's so many boundaries that people attach to age, and I choose to be ageless and pick that [birthday] number as a new goal — an ever-growing goal." Way to go Dave! Keep on truckin'...er, running. Cheers!

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