For Duluth area ultra runner Michael Koppy, age is irrelevant

At 74, Hermantown ultra-athlete Michael Koppy is aiming to become the oldest runner ever to finish the Arrowhead 135 — a grueling race, longer than five marathons back-to-back, across northern Minnesota through the dead of night, often in subzero temperatures.

“I have to say, Arrowhead scares me,” Koppy admits. “It’s out of my comfort zone. I’ve trained hard for it and tried to be in different situations, but I know I’m going to learn a bunch of stuff out there, and some of them the hard way.”

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