"last took an aspirin during World War II"

From Running Times.

....By the way, if you're of Whitlock's speed and you "go out jogging" for 3 hours a day, you're doing more than 140 miles per week.


...Yet this 78-year-old man is one of the greatest age-group runners ever. In flight, his torso straightens, his limbs align, his chin comes up, and he glides over the ground. He's run a 5:41 mile in the second half of his eighth decade. He's run 6:00/mile pace for 5K in his early 70s. After a year away from racing with an arthritic knee, in September he ran a 1:37 half marathon, finishing 304th in a field of 3,411. And then there's his crowning achievement (so far), a 2:54 marathon at age 73, a time that most runners half that age would be ecstatic to call their own.