Dale Sanders recently completed the Appalachian Trail and reclaimed his record as the oldest person to hike the Georgia-to-Maine route. He fell 71 times along the way, including a spill 200 yards from the finish line. “By the time I got to the summit … I had forgotten about the pain, and I was just excited about being there,” Sanders tells “Elizabeth Vargas Reports.” #AppalachianTrail #GoodNews Anchor Elizabeth Vargas delivers the biggest stories, without bias or opinion. Watch "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" every weeknight at 7p/6C on NewsNation. #VargasReports NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
John Mazzei, a 57-year-old ballroom-dance instructor from Lindenhurst, New York, has completed six marathons without shoes or socks, drawing stares from cops, cheers from strangers, and a good-luck autograph on his foot from a champion runner. Mazzei didn't start running until he was about 43. Within three months, conventional sneakers had wrecked his knees badly […] The post Long Island dance instructor has run six marathons barefoot — and now he wants Boston appeared first on American Almanac .
John Mazzei, a 57-year-old ballroom-dance instructor from Lindenhurst, New York, has completed six marathons without shoes or socks, drawing stares from cops, cheers from strangers, and a good-luck autograph on his foot from a champion runner. Mazzei didn't start running until he was about 43. Within three months, conventional sneakers had wrecked his knees badly enough to sideline him. He quit, and stayed away for years, until he picked up Christopher McDougall's Born to Run, a book that examines the sports science behind shoeless running. That changed everything. Mazzei ditched the sneakers for good, started conditioning his bare feet on the streets of his Long Island neighborhood, and worked his way up from short distances to a 5K and…Open
British runner Josh Kerr ran 3:42.66 at London Stadium on Saturday to break the men's mile world record that had stood since 1999, and he told the world months ago he would do it. Kerr crossed the finish line at the Novuna London Athletics Meet, part of the Wanda Diamond League, more than three seconds […] The post Josh Kerr shatters 27-year-old mile world record at London Diamond League appeared first on American Almanac .
British runner Josh Kerr ran 3:42.66 at London Stadium on Saturday to break the men's mile world record that had stood since 1999, and he told the world months ago he would do it. Kerr crossed the finish line at the Novuna London Athletics Meet, part of the Wanda Diamond League, more than three seconds ahead of American Yared Nuguse, who finished second in 3:45.69. Britain's Jake Heyward took third in a personal best of 3:46.73. The gap between first and second was not a race. It was a statement. The 28-year-old's time erased the 3:43.13 mark set by Moroccan great Hicham El Guerrouj in Rome in 1999. That record had survived every challenger for 27 years, longer than Kerr has been alive. Fox News reported that Kerr's previous personal…Open
In the late 1970s, he built what is considered the first off-road bicycle with a frame that was aluminum rather than steel, one of his many inventions.
