Meet the 96-YO Bengaluru Marathoner Who Picked up Running at 91 & Hasn’t Stopped Since

Most people retire from competitive sport long before they retire from work. For N S Dattatreya, a former manager with the State Bank of Mysore, the opposite is true. He retired from banking in 1989, spent three decades living quietly in Bengaluru, and then, in January 2019, laced up a pair of running shoes for the very first time at the age of 91 and entered his first marathon. He has not stopped since. At 98, Dattatreya has participated in nearly 300 marathons and walkathons, won five gold medals at the 21st Asia Masters Athletics Championship in Malaysia, and continues to be a regular fa...