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The fastest woman in Canadian history is 40!
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I’ve not had a 360º after 40 feature in a very long while and when I read this feature of Canadian runner Denise Robson who made it to the Boston Marathon on her first try (it takes years to train for this) and who has been breaking running records after running records, I just had to talk about this 40-year-old mother of three girls from Eastern Canada.
For U.S. and international readers, I should place Nova Scotia on the Canadian map. Nova Scotia is near the Atlantic Ocean and it’s so low on the map that its southern point is actually very close to state of Maine.
You can find out more about this Canadian province here: Nova Scotia.
So back to Denise Robson! The single mother (she’s now divorced) had been a runner during university, but she gave up running for almost one-decade-and-one-half (14 years to be exact) to devote time to raising her babies and being a wife.
She got back into running because five years ago a co-worker invited her to a lunch-hour run and she’s not stopped running ever since. A mere five months after Denise started her lunch hour run, she entered her first marathon and she first that race and was crowned the fastest woman with a time of three hours and 13 minutes. This stellar performance automatically qualified her for the Boston Marathon.
She’s been jumping from one great achievement to another and she keeps breaking records.
In December 2008, Denise ran the California International Marathon in Sacramento in 2 hours 41 minutes and 12 seconds. She beat a 17-year-old record and her personal best time by more than three minutes!
Denise seems not be unable to stop breaking records and she cannot bring herself to stop running. She keeps in shape for her races by running/training whenever and wherever she can — she runs on her lunch breaks and she even runs from her office to her home after she’s done with her work day!
Her current goal is to finish a race with a time of 2 hours and 40 minutes and she’s determined to break that time in 2009!
This is a truly incredible story because so many people think that they are too old to accomplish certain milestones that had set for themselves in their 20s or 30s and Denise is proof that you are never too old to go after your dreams.
I really like how she closed the interview:
“I’m living a dream at 40 that I should have been living at 20.
I missed that opportunity at 20, so now I’m going to run with it as far as I can”!
So which goals have you not accomplished in your 20s or 30s that you would like to accomplish in her life this year?
Photo by by Thomas Hawk
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Posted by Beauty Match on February 26, 2009 | Permalink
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February 19th, 2009 at 21:28
Wowee what an insprirational story! I guess it really is true that age is a state of mind!
February 27th, 2009 at 0:13
Robin,
That’s exactly the whole idea behind my daily banters on this site … it has nothing to do with your age … but what you THINK you can do … at any age.
Age is really nothing but a number. You can still be 32 and feel like you are 72 (and I don’t mean a 72 year person who is aging well).