Women Running Series: Its Never Too Late To Run A Marathon With Vicki Bentley-Condit
Ella Go Podcast
English - October 19, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBSelf-Improvement Education Health & Fitness self improvement running coach women empowerment Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Meet Vicki Bentley-Condit. Vicki started running marathons at the age of 46 in 2003. Do the math!
She is a biological anthropologist and a college professor at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. Her research has been on mother-infant relationships in baboons and baboon nutrition, conducted in Kenya. She is semi-retired but still actively teaching.
Her first race was the Peachtree 10k in the mid-90's while she was finishing grad school at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Her first distance race was a half marathon in Des Moines, IA in 2003. Since then, she has completed over 108 marathons with 50 miles being the longest distance. She completed her first round of the 50 states in Hawaii in 2017 and finished the 50 States Sub-4 (a marathon in under 4 hrs in each state) in January of 2019 at age 61 in Mobile, AL. Vicki was the 24th female to complete the 50<4. She is also a Boston 50 Marathon Club 5-Star Finisher . This means she ran a Boston qualifying marathon in all 50 states. For Vicki, age is not a deterrent to be limitless!
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