One true story a day about someone doing something worth reading about, and one thing to try this week, pitched at your level: fit, unfit or somewhere in between.
Today's story Real Stories
From Topsham Quay and back again, Steve James ran a marathon a day around Britain
Steve James, a retired banker from Dartmoor, set off from Topsham Quay in Devon on 16 April 2025 and ran a marathon every day around the coast of mainland Britain. He finished back on the quay 200 days later, a year ago this week, and turned 66 on the last leg. University of Exeter scientists measured him all the way.
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How an airline pilot learned to bake during the pandemic, went back to flying, then chose the bakery for good, and how to bake your first loaf this week or turn a baking habit into something bigger.
How Hiram Bingham reached Machu Picchu in 1911, who was already there, the charcoal inscription left by Agustín Lizárraga in 1902, the 2022 study suggesting the Incas called the place Huayna Picchu, and how the objects taken to Yale went back to Cusco.
How a group of women in Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley turned a Tuesday mountain bike ride into a 15-year habit: the motto, the tailgate and why the group keeps them riding. How to start mountain biking on easy graded trails, or ride harder terrain with a group if you already ride.
How farmers digging a well near Xi'an in 1974 found the Terracotta Army, how a local curator reassembled the first soldiers, the long argument over who discovered it, and how a famous claim about ancient anti-rust technology was overturned in 2019.
How a retired Intel researcher from Baker City, Oregon, walked the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada in about seven months: the snow, the gear, the food and why she thinks pace mattered more than youth. How to start multi-day hiking, or build towards a long trail if you already walk.
What we believe
The second half of life comes with the thing you never had enough of: time. Spend it on your body, your mind and the things you always meant to do — not on shrinking your world to fit a smaller idea of yourself.
Fit at 50 and after a harder goal? Not exercised since school? Both belong here. Tell us where you are and what interests you, and we'll show you what fits: no chair exercises for runners, no marathons for people getting off the sofa.
No hype, no miracle cures, no "despite their age". One true story a day, sourced and linked, and one thing you can actually do this week. That's how lives change: a little, and then a lot.
Centurion Running Webinar - Running 200 Mile Ultramarathons
— A Centurion Running webinar on running 200-mile ultramarathons, as its title describes it.
Woman starts mountain biking in her 50s, showing it's never too late: "New outlook on life"
— A CBS Mornings report from May 2025, in its "Never Too Late" series, on Ashley Smith, who took up mountain biking at 50 and now races, as CBS News describes it.
