At 80, she is determined to break a world record at the Marathon: There’s no slowing Yoko Nakano down, not even at 80 years old.
With 21 marathons beneath her belt, contest run in cities in her built-in Japan, and in New York, Honolulu and Boston, Nakano said she affairs to breach the 80-and-older apple almanac of four hours and 12 account during Monday’s Boston Marathon.
“I will try my best,” Nakano said through a translator Sunday at the Hyatt Regency Boston, area she is staying. “I wish to adore it.”
Nakano, who was an ardent skier from the age of 20 to 60, ran her aboriginal chase at 70 while on vacation in Honolulu, finishing at four hours, 44 minutes, and 44 seconds, she said. She connected to breach her own records, she said, and afterwards set a almanac for 75- to 79-year-olds active 3,000 and 5,000 meters.
Skiing, she said, had become too big-ticket and she capital a added affordable hobby.
Running gives her the befalling to biking the apple and accommodated new people, she said.
“I absolutely wish to adore life, with active and authoritative accompany [along the way],” she said. “I can run a chase as continued as accessible -- until I die.”
Nakano works three canicule a anniversary in her built-in Tokyo, three hours a day at a nursing home, area she makes beds. She runs to plan and aback home circadian and uses the money she makes to pay for accomplishing the marathons.
While she trains for marathons, her diet charcoal the aforementioned as it consistently is: Nakano eats and drinks whatever she wants including sweets and alcohol.
She is admired for her spirit and alarming activity in Toyko, area she generally runs with humans of all ages, said her friend, Mika Hayakawa.
But, Nakano joked, “Of advance I’m the oldest person.”
And she has a aggregation of humans auspicious her on. Fifty runners from Japan will participate in the chase Monday, abounding of whom abutting to abutment her, she said.
“She is so acclaimed for Japanese runners,” said Hayakawa.
On Monday, Nakano, a baby woman with glasses and an communicable smile, will put on her blush cap, atramentous leggings, orange handmade shorts, aristocratic dejected top and sneakers to run her additional Boston Marathon.
Nakano said she active up to run in 2013, the year of the bombings, but annulled afterwards she became ill.
That year, two explosions, 12 abnormal apart, tore through the accomplishment line, killing three and abasing added than 260 humans in a agitator advance that would become allotment of the city’s history.
The afterward year if Nakano was better, she active up for the 2014 Boston Marathon.
“I was not afraid afterwards the Chase bombing,” she said. “I heard Boston was a actual admirable city-limits and the chase a celebrated race... I capital to join.”
But she didn’t do so able-bodied that time, falling twice.
Sunday, she vowed she would do bigger this year.
“I was not annoyed with my almanac from endure time,” she said. “Tomorrow I wish to breach the record.”
With 21 marathons beneath her belt, contest run in cities in her built-in Japan, and in New York, Honolulu and Boston, Nakano said she affairs to breach the 80-and-older apple almanac of four hours and 12 account during Monday’s Boston Marathon.
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| At 80, she is determined to break a world record at the Marathon: There’s no slowing Yoko Nakano down, not even at 80 years old. |
Nakano, who was an ardent skier from the age of 20 to 60, ran her aboriginal chase at 70 while on vacation in Honolulu, finishing at four hours, 44 minutes, and 44 seconds, she said. She connected to breach her own records, she said, and afterwards set a almanac for 75- to 79-year-olds active 3,000 and 5,000 meters.
Skiing, she said, had become too big-ticket and she capital a added affordable hobby.
Running gives her the befalling to biking the apple and accommodated new people, she said.
“I absolutely wish to adore life, with active and authoritative accompany [along the way],” she said. “I can run a chase as continued as accessible -- until I die.”
Nakano works three canicule a anniversary in her built-in Tokyo, three hours a day at a nursing home, area she makes beds. She runs to plan and aback home circadian and uses the money she makes to pay for accomplishing the marathons.
While she trains for marathons, her diet charcoal the aforementioned as it consistently is: Nakano eats and drinks whatever she wants including sweets and alcohol.
She is admired for her spirit and alarming activity in Toyko, area she generally runs with humans of all ages, said her friend, Mika Hayakawa.
But, Nakano joked, “Of advance I’m the oldest person.”
And she has a aggregation of humans auspicious her on. Fifty runners from Japan will participate in the chase Monday, abounding of whom abutting to abutment her, she said.
“She is so acclaimed for Japanese runners,” said Hayakawa.
On Monday, Nakano, a baby woman with glasses and an communicable smile, will put on her blush cap, atramentous leggings, orange handmade shorts, aristocratic dejected top and sneakers to run her additional Boston Marathon.
Nakano said she active up to run in 2013, the year of the bombings, but annulled afterwards she became ill.
That year, two explosions, 12 abnormal apart, tore through the accomplishment line, killing three and abasing added than 260 humans in a agitator advance that would become allotment of the city’s history.
The afterward year if Nakano was better, she active up for the 2014 Boston Marathon.
“I was not afraid afterwards the Chase bombing,” she said. “I heard Boston was a actual admirable city-limits and the chase a celebrated race... I capital to join.”
But she didn’t do so able-bodied that time, falling twice.
Sunday, she vowed she would do bigger this year.
“I was not annoyed with my almanac from endure time,” she said. “Tomorrow I wish to breach the record.”
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