A Triathlon is the New Midlife Crisis

A third of all US triathlon participants are in their forties, as are one-third of finishers in the Boston Marathon. The average ultra-runner is 44. Marathon runners in their 40s average faster times than those in their twenties. Increasingly, people are responding to the anxieties of middle age not by clinging to the last vestiges of expiring youth but to taking on challenges that seem to belong to the young alone: by pushing the limits of what they’re physically capable of through endurance athletics and extreme fitness. Instead of the midlife crisis, we have the midlife correction.

From “Extreme Athleticism is the New Midlife Crisis” by Paul Flannery for Medium 

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