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A 90-Year-Old Grandma Named "Dot" is Your New Half Marathon Record Holder

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Dot Sowerby running the Chicago Life Time Half Marathon.Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members!Download the app.RELATED: The Fastest 60-Year-Old Woman is Only Getting FasterHer son, Jim Sowerby, remembers that when he was growing up, his mother was athletic.“She taught me how to play basketball and tennis when I was a kid,” he says. “I remember being a somewhat confident 9 or 10-year-old running around on the beach one vacation, thinking I was pretty fast. Then she said, ‘Let’s draw a line in the sand and race’ and I thought I could beat her easily, but she blew by me. She just smiled with a little twinkle in her eye.”When she was 50 and ready to sign up for her first race, the running space, it seems, wasn’t prepared for the speedy rocket Sowerby was. The race registration age range ended right at 50.When she turned 70, Sowerby’s friends tried to get her to hang up her running shoes. Even though she’s checked with her doctor and has been given the green light, they were concerned about her health and used to tell her that running simply wasn’t something women their age did. Even her son, Jim Sowerby, was a little concerned initially.“Mom usually runs shorted distances (sprints, 400m, 800m) in the Senior Olympics and the occasional 5K in the neighborhood,” he says. “So I was a little surprised, and a little worried, when she said that she might join my sister, brother-in-law, and I in running the Chicago Half Marathon nine months before the race.”But his worries were alleviated as he saw her train consistently and watched her get stronger with every run.“If it were me, I wouldn’t tell anyone I was going to try to do this long distance race in case I couldn’t make it, but she does the opposite – she tells everyone, contacts the race organizers, you name it,” Jim says. “She trained methodically, waking up early each week as she did longer runs in the dark around the retirement village. Running this half marathon as a really a new evolution, at 90, in her running repertoire.”“I think she’s the best runner in the family,” Jim says. “My sister, brother-in-law, and I run partly becuase she sets a high bar and encourages us. My big fear in running the Chicago Half was whether I could, at 60, beat my 90-year-old mother.”“At the last quarter mile, where I saw her, she was running at a good pace slightly up the hill to the finish,” Jim says. “She did a fist pump about 100 yards before the finish, and there were a number of people (many of them young people) still coming behind her. We were very proud.”&nbsp;How to Recover and Race Back-to-Back Half MarathonsSarah Canney6 Things to Remember About Fueling for a Half MarathonJessica Sebor15 Tips For Running Your Best Half MarathonJessica Sebor5K To Marathon Training PlanJessica SeborL. Renee Blount and Outside TV host Pat Parnell posted up at a popular trailhead, handed out free Athletic Brewing craft non-alcoholic beer, and then recorded runners’ live reactions. Want to find out what all the hype’s about? Click here to discover a world without compromise.

Dot Sowerby running the Chicago Life Time Half Marathon.Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members!Download the app.RELATED: The Fastest 60-Year-Old Woman is Only Getting FasterHer son, Jim Sowerby, remembers that when he was growing up, his mother was athletic.“She taught me how to play basketball and tennis when I was a kid,” he says. “I remember being a somewhat confident 9 or 10-year-old running around on the beach one vacation, thinking I was pretty fast. Then she said, ‘Let’s draw a line in the sand and race’ and I thought...

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