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This year has been one for the record books when it comes to female masters runners, or a runner over the age of 40, also sometimes called a veteran runner. In July, four women from The Central Park Track Club set the 4x800m relay world record (for ages 55-59) at the 2023 USATF Masters Outdoor Championships, held in North Carolina. Judy Stobbe (58), Jennifer Harvey (55), Dominique Saint-Louis (57), and Sue Pearsall (58) ran a cumulative time of 10:36.35, beating the previous record (10:37.07) by nearly a second. At the 2023 Chicago Marathon, Jeannie Rice (75) set the women’s 75-79 age group world record of 3:34:32, while Jenny Hitchings (60) set the women’s 60-64 age group world record of 2:49:43. From January to October, Sue McDonald set a total of nine women’s 60-64 world records in a variety of track and field events, including the 400 meters, the mile, the heptathlon, and…
