My Hero: Ida Keeling

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According to NY Daily News:

A Bronx woman broke the world sprinting record this week in Manhattan, completing the 60 meter race with a record time of 29.86 seconds.

The time may not seem like world record numbers, but they do hold up especially since the woman who broke the record is 95-years-old. 

Weighing in at 86 pounds and a height of 4 feet 6 inches, Ida Keeling began running almost thirty years ago from the advice of her daughter. Two years after her daughter suggested running, Ida ran her first 5K race, and she hasn’t quit yet.

Since then she has broken several records including, fastest sprint in 2008 with a time of 31.82 seconds. In 2009, Keeling lost the world record to 94-year-old Grace Foster of Tabernacle, NJ with a time of 31.22 seconds. 

A record the nonagenarian earned again last year. 

According to ABC, Keeling only takes one medication per day and she attributes her longevity to eating a dinner meal for breakfast and a small breakfast at dinner. When asked how long she will run she said she hopes to "make it to 108," which is four years past her father’s mother.  


***Plus she wears kick-ass yellow running shoes. Now that's my kind of woman.