Vera was running along Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro, when I met her two years ago. At age...

Vera was running along Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro, when I met her two years ago. At age seventy-six, she told me she runs between 10 and 16 kilometres every two days.

“I started only four years ago and it changed my life. Really sorry, but I have to go now.”