When author and TV personality Miika Nousiainen was preparing for the 400-meter race for senior athletes, people often shouted from the stands whether they should be worried. It was the perfect pre-run question.
Author Miika Nousiainen51, could have set up a daringly erotic Onlyfans account or rowed across the Atlantic and back in his fifties, but chose a more ironic goal.
“At a certain age, a person has earned the right to flirt. I wouldn’t want to become sporty. I would like to be the same phlegmatic self as always before. I just happen to be Finland’s best ever runner in my age group,” Nousiainen writes in the new one Circuit tourin his book (Otava 2024).
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