Eighty-one-year-old Wang Fushan from Fushun, northeast China's Liaoning Province attended the Chengdu Marathon in late November and finished the race at 5 hours and 4 minutes. He said he planned to participate in the Danzhou Marathon and Xiamen Marathon as well.

Seniors like Wang are not rare in marathons, which demand a lot of stamina.

Seventy-year-old Huang Caifu was a huge sports fan when he was young. After 2014, he started running again and attended a series of domestic marathons. Huang did not just do it for fun. In fact, he has won almost every competition of his age group, which earned him the nickname "the best senior runner."

In the Shaoxing Marathon in early November, Huang finished the race at 2:58:28. Several weeks later, he broke his record to 2:55:50 in Changzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province. He was only 1:27 away from matching the world record of marathon for 70-year-olds.

Huang has a minimum standard for himself when participating in marathons: "I will stop running once I cannot finish within three hours and 30 minutes. I need to leave more opportunities for young blood."

Sixty-nine-year-old Zhang Minyi was competing with Huang in both Shaoxing and Changzhou. Zhang was only six seconds behind Huang in Shaoxing and finished the Changzhou Marathon at 2:56:04.

Before November came to an end, Zhang went to Shanghai to run in his third marathon in the same month. Though he pulled his leg muscle previously in Changzhou, Zhang still managed to finish the Shanghai International Marathon at 3:07:16.

Seventy-one-year-old Guan Jingxue was born in the same year of the foundation of the People's Republic of China in 1949. In a marathon he participated in Beijing in early November, Guan finished the race at 3:11:17.

Guan started running in 1996 and he was only doing it for body-building at the beginning, never expecting to continue to run for the following 24 years. He attended the Xiamen International Marathon in 2012 and finished it at 2:56:42. In last year's Beijing International Marathon, Guan reached the goal at 3:01:55.

"I will keep running until I cannot run anymore," said Guan.

Running is not exclusive to marathons. For example, 76-year-old Yuan Renwu participated in the Jiangnan 100-Mile Endurance Run in Ningbo, east China's Zhejiang Province in November. The race encompassed 111 kilometers of running and 5,301 meters of climbing. Moreover, one must finish it within 31.5 hours.

Ren did it at 26:03:15. He said he's ready to challenge the 168-kilogram competition next year and wants to keep running until he's 80.

When 81-year-old Chen Jinzhong was attending the Xi'an Marathon in November, he was wearing a white shirt that read: "I'm 81, and I'm in front of you. I will continue running as long as I can breathe!"

The seniors run, the seniors live and they do it better than many young blood.