NYE Birthday Boy Celebrates By Running 1 Kilometer For Each Year of Life: Report

WHEATON, IL — A Wheaton man celebrates his New Year’s Eve birthday by running a kilometer for each year of his life, the Daily Herald has reported, and is now up to 53.

Steve Spear started the annual tradition in 2010, the paper said.

“It was harder than I thought it was going to be mentally, but it was meaningful and seemed like a good way to spend a day," Spear said, according to the Daily Herald.

“As he runs, he looks back at some of the key moments of his life and ahead to his efforts to raise money to provide clean drinking water for people in Africa,” the Daily Herald said. “On loop 23, he remembers the year he married his wife, Frances. On loops 25 and 30, he recalls with joy the years his children, Zach and Chelsea, were born. Loop 50 brings back memories of the 3,000-mile run he did from Los Angeles to New York City.”

For Americans, 53 kilometers is nearly 33 miles.

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