Holy moly! 90 miles? I haven't run my LR yet and I will end up with a quarter less than your weekly total and I'm already exhausted from my week. How do you do it?

Slowly, with lots of grunting.

 

Slowly, with lots of grunting.

I'm in the cabin at the park having a sip of water before I head back home when this lady I often see running on Sundays comes up to me and says:

You know that guy with the black jacket you were following? He was with a woman...

Me: Not really. Kinda, but I didn't pay attention.

Her, with stars in her eyes: It's Alain Bordeleau. He ran in the Olympic in 1984. His marathon PR is 2:14.

Me: Really? Wow! That's pretty incredible

Then I talk some more with her. Her name is Diane and it turns out she was a pretty strong runner herself. She has a 5k PR of 17:05 (in her late 40s), a HM PR of 1:19, in her late 40s also, and can't remember exactly her marathon PR, but it was sub 3:00. Now she's 64, only runs the occasional 5K. This year she came in 1st woman in a 5K in 21x. At first they disqualified her, because at 64, a woman can't be running that fast. They later gave her back her first place after the other women in the race vouched her 1st place was legit.

That's pretty awesome stuff. The guy she was talking about (13:51 5K PR )  :

http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/alain-bordeleau-1.html

http://www.all-athletics.com/fr/node/282536

Oh, and I ran 14.

MTA: This is the woman I was talking to.

http://www.runnersworld.com/masters/diane-legare

19:55.  2nd OA.  Very fucking happy.

Damnation!  Nice run.

19:55.  2nd OA.  Very fucking happy.

Hey, congrats on that!

I'm in the cabin at the park having a sip of water before I head back home when this lady I often see running on Sundays comes up to me and says:

You know that guy with the black jacket you were following? He was with a woman...

Me: Not really. Kinda, but I didn't pay attention.

Her, with stars in her eyes: It's Alain Bordeleau. He ran in the Olympic in 1984. His marathon PR is 2:14.

Me: Really? Wow! That's pretty incredible

 

Then I talk some more with her. Her name is Diane and it turns out she was a pretty strong runner herself. She has a 5k PR of 17:05 (in her late 40s), a HM PR of 1:19, in her late 40s also, and can't remember exactly her marathon PR, but it was sub 3:00. Now she's 64, only runs the occasional 5K. This year she came in 1st woman in a 5K in 21x. At first they disqualified her, because at 64, a woman can't be running that fast. They later gave her back her first place after the other women in the race vouched her 1st place was legit.

 

That's pretty awesome stuff. The guy she was talking about (13:51 5K PR )  :

http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/alain-bordeleau-1.html

http://www.all-athletics.com/fr/node/282536

 

Oh, and I ran 14.

That's pretty amazing that she was disqualified because they didn't believe her age. Wow, what a cool story! There must be something special in the Montreal water to produce such strong runners. Too bad I moved away 12 years ago!

I was once in a couple of local races with these 2 identical twin sisters. They were 51 or 52 (thank god I was not in the same AG at the time...). They were crazy fast (well, in relation to me), so I looked up their finish times on Sportstats. They would run 2 or 3 marathons per year in about 3:25, their HM times were around 1:25 and 10ks :40:00/41:00. At their age! They looked like scary robots on the course, running side by side, always in sync. Anyway, I googled their names up, because I thought there was something fishy there. Turns out that one of them had been the first non-American female winner of the Kona Hawaii Ironman Triathlon in 1983. Her sister finished a few seconds behind her. Now I am trying to avoid the races they register for because I believe I am in their AG for the next 12 months. 

EDIT: I just checked them up again and at age 54, they now run their HMs in 1:35 and their full in around 3:35. The war is on! (insert evil laugh here)

 

That's pretty amazing that she was disqualified because they didn't believe her age. Wow, what a cool story! There must be something special in the Montreal water to produce such strong runners. Too bad I moved away 12 years ago!

 

I was once in a couple of local races with these 2 identical twin sisters. They were 51 or 52 (thank god I was not in the same AG at the time...). They were crazy fast (well, in relation to me), so I looked up their finish times on Sportstats. They would run 2 or 3 marathons per year in about 3:25, their HM times were around 1:25 and 10ks :40:00/41:00. At their age! They looked like scary robots on the course, running side by side, always in sync. Anyway, I googled their names up, because I thought there was something fishy there. Turns out that one of them had been the first non-American female winner of the Kona Hawaii Ironman Triathlon in 1983. Her sister finished a few seconds behind her. Now I am trying to avoid the races they register for because I believe I am in their AG for the next 12 months. 

 

EDIT: I just checked them up again and at age 54, they now run their HMs in 1:35 and their full in around 3:35. The war is on! (insert evil laugh here)

Are they redheads? I've often seen these twin redheads in their early fifties train with a group, and they were chatting loudly all along, making all the people in the group laugh.

Did you see that I added a part about in my original post with a runner's world article about the Diane I was talking to.