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Running the Boston Marathon at 50+

April 09, 2007 5:41 am by Virginia DeBolt in Health
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A friend of mine who is over 60, after training for nearly a year, is about the head to Boston to run in this year's marathon. I have no doubt that she will finish the race–not first, but not last either. She's one of 24,000 registered runners this year.

The New Zealand Herald ran a story today about NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who plans to run the Marathon from space. Williams is a mere 41 years old.

I wondered how many women over the age of 50 were running this year. Turns out that you can search the list of entrants using parameters such as age and gender. There are 1091 women over the age of 50 running this year.

The Boston Marathon is sponsoring a USA Women's Championship Marathon this year. Top female marathoners from the US will compete for separate prize money for the first time in this race.

Keep an eye on the news on April 16 to see how the women fare.

You go, girls!

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GreatPicken
GreatPicken 5 pts

INNside Innkeeping in Montana

As an ultrarunner turned endurance rider, I used to train with guys in their mid-fifties. I nicknamed them the "bullet brigade" because in all of our training runs, they would routinely "blow my doors off".. You're not getting older, you're getting better.

The wisdom is reaching far beyond what you see... you go!!
GP in Montana

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Grace Davis
Grace Davis 5 pts

For a 60 year old woman to qualify for Boston, she would have finished a marathon in 4hr30min ( http://www.bostonmarathon.org/BostonMarathon/Quali... ) the previous year.

That's a half hour faster than my marathon finishing times.

I bow down.

I also bow down to Deb Roby who will be running her first race soon. It's addictive, Deb, watch out!

Grace Davis
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New York City Marathon 2003 5:07
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Debra Roby
Debra Roby 5 pts

I cannot imagine running a marathon myself... but I did just sign up for the first race of my life ( http://www.ingbaytobreakers.com/main.html ) (shorter, and I'm walking it). And I'll be turning 55 a month later!

Debra
A Stitch In Time ( http://astitchintime.blogspot.com )
Deb's Daily Distractions ( http://debsdistractions.blogspot.com )

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