Fauja keen on another marathon

LONDON: Hundred-year-old Fauja Singh, the miracle man of long distance running, wants to run another marathon.
"I would like to do so in London or Toronto (where his daughter lives)," he told TOI on the sidelines of the launch of his biography 'Turbaned Tornado' at the UK's House of Lords' Attlee Room on Thursday evening.
The room was packed with Fauja admirers and those curious to take a close look at the phenomenon.Hoshiarpur-based citrus cultivator Khushwant Singh has written the biography.
Fauja became the world's oldest half marathon runner at the age of 99 in Lusembourg last year. The mild mannered man of a few words with a flowing beard and turban was puzzled as well as inspired when he saw thousands of people running in a marathon on TV. He migrated to Britain in the mid-1990s to join one of his sons.
Later he successfully participated in a 20-km event and has never looked back since 1999. Fauja expected to be the oldest to compete when he participated in his first London Marathon in 2004 at the age of 89.
He was disappointed when he met American Abe Abraham who was older than him. Abraham gave Fauja plenty of advice before the race on how to handle it, none of which he understood, for he only understands Punjabi.