RT Journal
T1 THe septuagenarian pedestrian
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD August 7
VO LIII
IS 6
SP 464
OP 464
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02550060040010
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02550060040010
AB Edward Payson Weston's performance of walking 3,975 miles in 105 days is a sufficiently noteworthy fact to deserve mention in a medical journal, even though he did not fully carry out his program of completing his walk in the time specified. It should be recollected that he comes before the public in this spectacular way after about a quarter of a century of comparative obscurity in which there are no records of any such unusual performances. He had been simply taking care of himself in the interval, and now comes out to show what a man can do after passing the psalmist's limit of human life. Probably many other men with like training and temperate habits could somewhat approximate his record.