Running has been a part of Antonio Rao’s life for 80 years, and the 92-year-old Italian man has no plans of stopping anytime soon. This year, he completed his 30th consecutive Rome marathon in under seven hours.

If you need some extra motivation to get up off the couch and go for a run, just know that a 92-year-old man recently completed the 42-kilometer Rome marathon for the 30th consecutive time, improving on last year’s time by 10 minutes. Rao is not your average pensioner. He lives for running and still trains 20 to 30 kilometers each week. Born in 1933, he ran away from his home in Calabria to Rome when he was just 10 and hasn’t stopped running since. He claims he started running daily as a teenager to keep up with a friend, but it became a huge part of his life, and he hasn’t missed a single Rome marathon in the last three decades.

“If I can do it at this age, anyone can,” Rao said. “I’d like to be an example of that.”

This year, Antonio Rao crossed the finish line of the Rome Marathon in 6 hours, 44 minutes, and 16 seconds, actually improving on last year’s performance by 10 minutes, so you could say he is getting better with age. Finishing under 7 hours is amazing for a man in his 90s, but Antonio’s top achievement remains his 2023 finish, when he set a new world record for his age category (90+). He finished the marathon in 6 hours and 14 minutes to break the M90 world record by a staggering 30 minutes.

“I haven’t been feeling well lately, and I didn’t think I could finish it, and instead I finished with a time ten minutes less than last year,” Rao told Runners World Italia after completing this year’s Rome Marathon. “Running, walking is life. I invite everyone to do it.”