Run for fun

MARTINUS EVANS started running after a doctor told the 36 ­ year ­ old New Yorker that he was fat.

“Lose weight or die,” he warned Evans, who then weighed 300 pounds (136 kilos) told a New York Times interviewer that he immediately went out and bought a pair of trainers.

Although he lost 90 pounds (40.8 ki ­ los), he realised that he wasn’t 90 pounds happier, and decided to stop counting calories and run for fun.

He has since founded the Slow AF Run Club whose first rule is that members may not talk about their weight or weight loss.

Runners move forward however they can, Evans said, even if it requires “delusional self ­ belief.”