Source: www.hudsonreporter.com Author: E. Assata Wright Don’t tell 75-year-old marathon runner Leslie Mayer he’s “amazing” for training for the upcoming Damon Runyon 5K Run, a cancer research benefit to be held Sunday, Aug. 15 at Yankee Stadium. And don’t tell him it’s “incredible” that he’s still active and fit “at his age.” “Let me tell you, there are people my age, people older than me, who can run in half the time I do,” he said. “There’s a 5K race in Teterboro, near the airport, and there was a man there, 70 years old, and he ran the race at 7 minutes and 48 seconds a mile. And he beat a friend of mine who is 53 years old by 10 seconds.” Mayer, a Secaucus resident for the past decade, has been running for about 35 years, and has used long distance running to help him deal with everything from problems at work to his own recent battle with cancer. “I found that running, even though it’s a serious exercise, it enables you to release all tension and stress, and enables you to do a lot of thinking and clear your mind. It’s the only sport where you’re really competing with yourself, because you’re challenging yourself to run faster at better times that you’ve done before. And you’re also challenging yourself to run farther distances.” Running is therapeutic Mayer, who works at a car dealership in Paramus, said he first discovered running years ago when he was working in New [...]