##, Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents and 11 times across the USA in the past 40 years. I was following her predicted finish time. At 73, she completed an Ironman triathlon with a broken collarbone! What it is. Her bones are still apparently plenty strong to keep going. “For the last few years I’ve been the only one in my age group,” she said. She swam endless pool laps. The only news I could get was that she was still moving. After competing and losing in the IRONMAN World Championship six times (often to Dave Scott), I emerged victorious in 1989, winning one of the most difficult one-day sporting events in the world. After a busy day I made it home just in time for it to start and I watched it with my daughter. She ran, ran and ran some more. “So the only thing I have to do is just finish.”.
In 2013 IRONMAN had predicted finish time tracking for the first time. In 1997 Outside magazine tabbed me "The World's Fittest Man" and was also inducted into the Ironman Hall of Fame. In 2013, Harriet Anderson raced the Ironman Triathlon in Kona, Hawaii. She won her age group. I know I was.
Sign Up For 30 Days Of Free Coaching. During the bicycle portion of the race, another cyclist bumped her off her bike causing her to break her collarbone.
History was made. Harriet Anderson is the most fearless and toughest athlete you’ll ever meet. You must deal with the pounding of your hip joints and knees already “rusting” with age. She wins her age division each time.
Like many people I watched the NBC coverage of the 2013 Ironman World Championships in Kona this Saturday. This was the beautiful start to my not good at all, You guys know that I love all of my interviews.
Okay, you may be asking the question, “Why would a 78 old woman want to race in one of the world’s most grueling competitions with people one-quarter her age?”. What an inspiration!
She said during the coverage, “that’s older than grandma.” It is but just.
At 11:53 p.m. she finished, just seven minutes before the cutoff. I take awkward selfies. The training nearly kills men half her age. I definitely want to be like Harriet when I’m 78. This year she was flying. It looked like she was going to finish with around 25-minutes to spare. Harriet Anderson finished just before all the cutoffs and this is apparently her 22nd or 23rd trip to Kona.
You can jump on your 27-speed carbon bicycle to ram through 112 miles of hot, dry pavement. I was undefeated in ten trips to the Nice International Triathlon in France, and from 1988-1990 I put together a streak of 21 consecutive race wins at all distances of triathlons from the Olympic distance all the way up to Ironman. Someb
In other news … you might be training for a marathon if you say ridiculous things like 8-mile recovery run. She wasn’t about to let a little crash keep her from the task at hand.
Then things started to slow.
Saw these feathered friends on my run today. Midnight was closing in fast and she was still out on the Queen K Hwy.
Now I was breathing hard too. She raced 10 K’s.
“So I would never have thought that I would still be doing something like this. Congratulations Harriet!
I was breathing easy.
At 5’6”, 120 pounds, a former registered nurse who remains married to the same guy for 50 years, she remains lithe and agile. Ironman Triathlon – the most extreme of extreme sports 18/10/2012 “A 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride followed by s full 26.2 mile marathon is not the sort of day out that most of would survive,” begins Clare in her latest Waitrose Weekend column. At 74 years of age, she was the oldest female competitor to complete the race.
To read more stats on Harriet, please click HERE. She would be wowed to hear about what Harriet Anderson did this October. She rose early each morning for a bicycle spin of 30, 40 and 50 miles.
Tick tock. I wrote a lot of words about chafing. Triathlon is not about finding your limits; it’s about finding out what lies beyond them. For 11 times, she claimed first place in her age division. Like many people I watched the NBC coverage of the 2013 Ironman World Championships in Kona this Saturday.
I was born in Glendale, California.
There was rain at my house this morning so I did n, I write about running and triathlon.
Her win qualified her for the Kona Ironman in October. Her predicted time slipped to only a 15-minute margin of error, then to 10-minutes and then it was a buffer of less than 5-minutes.
And the reason she’d taken longer than usual? Seriously not much at all. Speeding into her 50s, Anderson tried Master’s Swimming and excelled. I think she was 78 this year when she finished. Why would I say no to that great request! If you are a man or woman, look her story up on the Internet. You can power through the 2.4-mile swim in ocean water. As I said before she’s 78. The quote is from Fireman Rob (who also inspires me) and this is my kids finishing my first half-iron with me.