Running a 24-minute 5K in your 40s is nothing to be embarrassed about; your author would note that he recently, albeit 20 seconds faster than Suarez and during a “guys’ weekend” in Maine during which he’d slept for roughly three hours. Exercise, for regular people, should be about competing against oneself, getting healthier, and enjoying the spiritually centering rush of natural endorphins.
There’s no need to shame anyone for finishing a 5K some 20 seconds slower than a middle-aged blogger who was once cut from a 30-person seventh-grade basketball team that advertised itself as an inclusive “no cuts” program.comparisons to others by behaving as if their admirably average fitness achievements are actually evidence of super-alpha superiority.