Ideas from the CBC: Can You Outrun Time?

Brett Popplewell chronicled the life of an octogenarian athlete for his 2024 Edna Staebler Award-winning book, Outsider. Dag Abaye rejects mainstream views of the aging body, and chooses to live alone in an old school bus in the mountains of B.C., challenging himself to run long distances each day. In this public talk, Brett Popplewell considers what he learned from his subject, and about pushing society's limits around aging.