It’s Never Too Late…

to become the per­son you want to be!

Today we are high­light­ing a story about Ida Ida Keel­ing. Ida is the world’s fastest nonagenarian.

The 95-year-old Bronx native set a world record at a track meet in north­ern Man­hat­tan last week, run­ning 60 meters in 29.86 sec­onds, accord­ing to ABC News. She’s the old­est woman to do so.

At 4-foot-6 and 83 lbs Keel­ing says she has always been the old­est per­son at her meets. That might be because she didn’t even take up run­ning until she was 67.

From ABC News:

Active and healthy and liv­ing alone in her Bronx, N.Y., apart­ment, she could pass for 75. She says she feels even younger.
“Like a puppy,” she declares. “I feel younger now than when I was in my 30s and 40s and had all those prob­lems. Then I was aged!“
Keeling’s hus­band died of a heart attack at the age of 42, and both of her sons were killed in drug-related killings, accord­ing to ABC. Her daugh­ter, Shel­ley, a lawyer, real estate investor, and high school track coach con­vinced her mother to take up run­ning at 67.

Since then, Keel­ing has set record after record, becom­ing one of the world’s old­est sprint­ing leg­ends. Accord­ing to ABC, she set the record for the world’s fastest sprint in the 90-and-over age cat­e­gory last year.

For ABC’s piece on the elderly sprinter, check out the video below. (Click the image to jump to the arti­cle on the Huff­in­g­ton Post site and scroll down to see the video.)

Ida Keeling

ARTICLE REFERENCE: Huff­in­g­ton Post

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