A local (to me) Charlotte woman, 91, just completed another marathon just one month after radiation treatment (and smashed the AG record).** That my friends is how you HTFU. **My friend wrote the article that was picked up by Runners World (and now most major news outlets) and I though I would share as that is one tough lady!
On Sunday, exactly one month after that last radiation treatment, Thompson is scheduled to run the San Diego Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon. She’s the oldest competitor entered in the 26.2-mile foot-race, according to Marathon Series spokesman Dan Cruz; he says if she reaches the finish line, she will be the oldest person ever to complete the Southern California event, which is now in its 17th year.
Thompson has only missed two of them: in 1998, the inaugural year, and in 2013, when her 14-year streak ended because she’d recently had all but one of her upper teeth removed as a result of an oral cancer that also took her upper jawbone. In 2010, 2011 and 2012, she ran while the disease was eating away at her mouth.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/...nJ7AvA#storylink=cpy
Post Race Article follow up:
Some 91-year-olds are just grateful to be able to get out of bed in the morning and make it to the breakfast table.
Then there’s 91-year-old Harriette Thompson of Charlotte, who woke up Sunday morning in southern California, threw on some running clothes, and set a record in the San Diego Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon.
Despite still-healing burns on her legs due to recent radiation treatments for squamous cell carcinoma, despite temperatures that soared to near 80 degrees along the Pacific, Thompson finished in 7 hours, 7 minutes, 42 seconds. Her average pace (16 minutes, 20 seconds per mile) was faster than a typical healthy adult’s normal walking speed. And she kept it up for 26.2 miles.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/...XJ7AvA#storylink=cpy