Three days after her seventy fifth birthday, Jeannie Rice of Mentor, Ohio, added the ladies’s 75+ age group world marathon document to her spectacular resume, successful her age class on the by 20 minutes and crossing the road in 3:33:15.
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Rice not solely beat the earlier document of three:38:56, held by Norway’s Vera Nystad. She additionally beat Nystad within the race, who completed second to Rice in 3:53:52. Nystad is three years older than Rice, and initially set the document at age 77, when she ran 3:38 on the 2022 Berlin Marathon.
This masters document isn’t Rice’s first over She additionally holds the ladies’s 70+ document of three:27:50 from the 2018 Chicago Marathon. Her time of three:38 is outstanding, and it exhibits that age actually is only a quantity.
Rice averaged a mind-blowing 5 minutes per kilometre tempo for 42.2 kilometres at age 75. That’s eight and a half consecutive 25-minute 5 Ks.
Rice considers herself a snowbird, as she lives and trains in her hometown of Mentor, Ohio for six months of the 12 months earlier than heading to Naples, Fla., for six months each winter.
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That is Rice’s second marathon within the final six weeks. In March, she received the ladies’s 70+ age class on the 2023 Tokyo Marathon in 3:31:22 to obtain her six-star finisher medal–finishing all six .