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An Extra Ordinary Story of the Turbaned Tornado and how he overcame adversity to become the World’s Oldest Marathon Runner.   Fauja Singh’s face is a filigree of wrinkles and his unruly silver beard cascades down his neck, but he is still sprightly and his eyes still twinkle.   Ex professional runner Harmander Singh and […]

An Extra Ordinary Story of the Turbaned Tornado and how he overcame adversity to become the World’s Oldest Marathon Runner.
 
Fauja Singh’s face is a filigree of wrinkles and his unruly silver beard cascades down his neck, but he is still sprightly and his eyes still twinkle.
 
Ex professional runner Harmander Singh and his trainer says that health tests showed that Singh “has the bones of a 35-year-old”. And yet, Singh claims never to drink milk
 
He has always been a frugal eater. He turned vegetarian some 30 years ago, and he believed it has helped me in many ways.
 

He has one roti and some dal for lunch, and the same for dinner, more or less every day.

He has a lot of curd, soondh (dry ginger) and lentils.

He loves pinni (a traditional Punjabi sweet made of flaxseed) and mangoes. Mangoes are especially good since they help you get your bowels moving.

When he wakes up each morning and takes his first step, he can figure out whether what he had the night before  worked for him or not. He listens to his body, and implements what it tells him unlike a lot of us.