3 days after her seventy fifth birthday, Jeannie Rice of Mentor, Ohio, added the ladies’s 75+ age team international marathon report to her spectacular resume, profitable her age class on the 2023 Boston Marathon by way of 20 mins and crossing the road in 3:33:15.

Rice now not most effective beat the former report of three:38:56, held by way of Norway’s Vera Nystad. She additionally beat Nystad within the race, who completed 2nd to Rice in 3:53:52. Nystad is 3 years older than Rice, and at the beginning set the report at age 77, when she ran 3:38 on the 2022 Berlin Marathon.

This masters report isn’t Rice’s first over the marathon distance. She additionally holds the ladies’s 70+ report of three:27:50 from the 2018 Chicago Marathon. Her time of three:38 is exceptional, and it displays that age actually is only a quantity. 

Rice averaged a mind-blowing 5 mins in keeping with kilometre tempo for 42.2 kilometres at age 75. That’s 8 and a part consecutive 25-minute 5 Ks. 

Rice considers herself a snowbird, as she lives and trains in her fatherland of Mentor, Ohio for 6 months of the yr earlier than heading to Naples, Fla., for 6 months each and every iciness.

That is Rice’s 2nd marathon within the final six weeks. In March, she received the ladies’s 70+ age class on the 2023 Tokyo Marathon in 3:31:22 to obtain her six-star finisher medal–finishing all six Abbott Global Marathon Majors.