In Meru County (a highland region of Kenya roughly 314 kilometres northeast of Nairobi), a group of 80 older adults is challenging assumptions about age and physical fitness through Masters Athletics Kenya, a national network for athletes aged 60 to 100. Founded in 2015, the local chapter trains three times a week on self-funded journeys to shared fields, with members ranging from a 73-year-old silver medallist at the 2019 African Masters Athletics competition in Tunisia to an 82-year-old woman who runs five kilometres per session and credits the routine with normalising her blood pressure. The group, which also includes visually impaired athletes training alongside sighted guides, has drawn cautious support from Meru County officials who see it as a public health model in a region already renowned for producing world-class distance runners.