Professor Shaul Ladany has a busy schedule to keep these days, but lays down one important condition before agreeing to speak to CNN.
"Every morning I roll up the carpet and do my exercises," he explains.
"So when I talk to you I might be breathing quite heavily, inhaling and exhaling. I hope that is OK for you."
It is no surprise that the academic and former Israeli Olympic walking champion leads an active life. Aside from his job as an engineering professor at Ben Gurion University, he still walks -- not as in a stroll but as in the punishing race-walking discipline much mocked for its unique waddle -- 15 km a day.
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On every birthday he walks his age in kilometers. So on his most recent anniversary he embarked on a solo 76 km walk around his home town of Be'er Sheva in Israeli's southern Negev desert.
Professor Ladany has made a virtue of making every year -- every day -- count.
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