Ida Keeling is not your typical 100-year-old great-great-grandmother. For the most part, anyone 100-years-old or greater is normally sitting in a chair somewhere, knitting and telling stories of when they were “a youngin.’” But Ida is far from that.
As a matter of fact, Keeling made headlines recently for setting the world record for the fastest 100M by a woman 100 years or older — clocking in a time of one minute and 17 seconds.
But that’s not the only record she’s broken. She also holds the title for the fastest 60M dash (ages 95-99) and has competed (and placed) in international meets.
You’d think with all these records broken, Keeling has been running all her life — WRONG. She didn’t start until much later in life.
“The competing started when she was 67 years old,” her daughter, Shelley explained, adding that Keeling’s introduction to running “came on the heels of a tragedy.”
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