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tweety_fan
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05 Apr 2012, 10:17 am

A perfectly, eminently possible thing. In a similar vein is one of my friends who's 70 and an amputee and does hillwalks, sometimes quite strenuous, on a regular basis. I was recently on quite a strenuous hillwalk up and down very steep gradients with him, so I must say age is not necessarily a barrier.



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05 Apr 2012, 1:10 pm

80 year old finisher of 45 IRONMAN races:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_Buder

75 year old, 19 times finisher at Kona:
http://ironman.com/profiles/matthew-dal ... d-champion

A retired doctor from around here, 80 years old, multiple time finisher:
http://tracking.ironmanlive.com/newathl ... =187&beta=

Amputees participating:
http://ironman.com/events/ironman/world ... ed-divisio

Can you imagine swimming 2.4 miles, biking 112, and running a 26.2 mile marathon, back to back to back, in under 17 hours, without legs? People do it all the time.

There's really no excuse for the able bodied couch potatoes out there.



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09 Apr 2012, 3:58 pm

That woman's on fire! 8)


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