Almost for 15 years. Seems too long, but it does work for me.
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What has your dosage protocol been?
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Just your typical 72 year old, out for a row…
Source: https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1897315022197678182
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(Loughborough University)
At 77, she’s as fit as a 25-year-old. What her body tells us about aging.
Most runners see substantial performance losses after they turn 70. Not Jeannie Rice, who just turned 77 and ran the Boston Marathon on Monday.
She has broken world women’s records in the 75-79 age group for every distance and, at times, beaten the fastest men in that age group. At the Boston Marathon, according to unofficial results, her time was 4 hours, 27 minutes and 17 seconds. It was very slow for Rice, but she still placed first in her age group.
Researchers are studying Rice to understand how humans can stay fit as they age, regardless of natural ability and the reduced physical activity often seen in older people, said Bas Van Hooren, assistant professor in nutrition and movement sciences at Maastricht University in the Netherlands and one of the study authors.
Rice, a retired real estate agent, proves “it’s never too late to start exercising,” Van Hooren said.
Full article (paywall): https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2025/04/20/healthy-aging-exercise-benefits-jeannie-rice/?utm_campaign=wp_must_reads&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
Non-paywalled articles on Jeannie Rice:
Six days after she set a new age-group world record in the marathon, running a time of 3:33:27 (averaging 8:08 miles), Rice agreed to visit an exercise lab in England where she underwent body fat measuring, treadmill testing, and other running and jumping assessments. In the resulting case report, which was published last month in the Journal of Applied Physiology, the authors shared that Rice has the highest V02 max (47.8) ever recorded for a woman aged 75 years or older, and a surprisingly high max heart rate of 180.
And a longer interview with Jeannie:
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I may have missed it but did anyone find her actual VO2 max?
Her VO2 max was measured at 47.9 , the highest ever recorded for a woman over 75,” Zanini says. “That would still place her among the best 10 per cent of 20 to 29-year-old females.
Here is the paper: A case report of the female world record holder from 1,500 m to the marathon in
the 75 1 age category
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