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re: 105-year-old runner from Baton Rouge poised to set new record

Posted on 10/28/21 at 3:01 pm to
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
42726 posts
Posted on 10/28/21 at 3:01 pm to
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You will be dead long before 105 years old let alone even walking with a walker 100 yards


Is that a threat?
Posted by tenfoe
Member since Jun 2011
6943 posts
Posted on 10/28/21 at 3:08 pm to
I've met her several times over the last 15 years or so. I used to work with her daughter. She is a wonderful lady.
Posted by PUB
New Orleans
Member since Sep 2017
20627 posts
Posted on 10/28/21 at 3:10 pm to

Sorry but common sense - odds are LESS THAN .02 % for anybody to make it to 100. You are probably not living to 105 let alone running in any race.
This post was edited on 10/28/21 at 3:25 pm
Posted by footswitch
New Market
Member since Apr 2015
4631 posts
Posted on 10/28/21 at 3:37 pm to
She’d beat high school me.
Coach said he timed me with a calendar.
Posted by armsdealer
Member since Feb 2016
12270 posts
Posted on 10/28/21 at 4:28 pm to
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So she just has to finish?


Her claim to fame is not she is better than anyone else, it is that she is so fricking old nobody else bothered to hobble a few meters to establish a record.
Posted by rmc
Truth or Consequences
Member since Sep 2004
27239 posts
Posted on 10/28/21 at 5:18 pm to
Posted by Ipissexcellence
Member since Dec 2018
445 posts
Posted on 10/28/21 at 9:20 pm to
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Posted by Dave_O
Member since Apr 2018
1209 posts
Posted on 10/28/21 at 10:12 pm to
I ran a marathon relay a few years ago because I’m too damn fat to run a full one (4 people run 5 miles and the fifth person runs 6.2 miles.). I got passed by this old guy who was probably in his mid to late 70s wearing a shirt that said something to the effect of he had ran over 100 marathons. My pride forced me to try to keep his pace for a half mile or so, and I couldn’t keep up. He slowly dusted me and I felt like a lazy shitbag, but good for him.
Posted by Misnomer
Member since Apr 2020
3667 posts
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:19 am to
Bump! She did it



Fox News link

quote:

"This is just a drop in the bucket," Hawkins, who joined the record books for the Louisiana Senior Olympic Games after she became the oldest American and the first woman in the centenarian age group to run a 100-meter race, told CBS News. With a finishing time of just under 1 minute and 3 seconds, Hawkins described herself as "so happy" for the opportunity, saying she might even do it again.


Posted by Eightballjacket
Member since Jan 2016
7890 posts
Posted on 11/11/21 at 1:14 am to
Were there better looking girls in the Quad in the 1930s?
Posted by hg
Member since Jun 2009
127485 posts
Posted on 11/11/21 at 1:19 am to
Damn she came in first and last
Posted by TomBuchanan
East Egg, Long Island
Member since Jul 2019
6269 posts
Posted on 11/11/21 at 1:20 am to
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So she just has to finish?



She needed to set the bar high, make the record unbreakable
This post was edited on 11/11/21 at 1:21 am
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