Chile’s Matías Anguita celebrated his 40th birthday by running forty marathons in forty days. “I’ve always thought that people are made to run … I hang on to that premise so that my body doesn’t resent me for running so much.” (I don’t know about his body, but my body definitely resents him.)

+ Anguita’s antics are kid stuff for Harriette Thompson. She just set a new record in the marathon. And she’s 91.