HALIFAX – Malcolm Pain, 75, is running in the Boston Marathon, even though his doctor told him years ago his running days were over.
Pain felt the pain five years ago. He fell off a ladder in his Bedford home and broke his left knee.
“The doctors thought my running days were over,” says Pain. “I said ‘I’ll bring you a t-shirt from my first marathon’, which I did, but it took me two years.”
He persevered through rehabilitation and got back to marathon condition.
He ran in the Boston Marathon last year and finished with a time of just under four hours and 32 minutes. Since then he’s been competing in several half marathons and 10Ks and ran another marathon in West Palm Beach, Fla., in December.
“I ran a 4:14 there, and won my age group,” says Pain.
Over the winter he ran an average of 60 km a week he says.
He’ll compete in the 75-80 age category at Boston. “It’s my only chance to run a decent time as a 75-year-old.”
“Runners are generally some of the nicest people in the world. I never met bad runners, believe me,” he says.
Pain and other Nova Scotians entered in the Boston Marathon gather at the starting line Monday, April 15.
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