Professor, 82, in marathon bid to promote benefits of exercise

As the rain began to soak the grounds of the University of Limerick yesterday afternoon, an 82-year-old professor was running around the college grounds on his 43rd marathon.

Walter Bortz, a clinical associate professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine in California, was visiting UL to promote the benefits of exercise on age.

As he picked up the pace at the halfway mark, he joked: “I’m looking for my wife to give me CPR. A little mouth-to-mouth action should do the trick.”