Murat Oztaskin writes an introduction to a video about Ginette Bedard, who started racing in marathons at the age of sixty-nine and will be competing in the 2019 New York City Marathon, at age eighty-six.
Bedard is eighty-six years old. This year’s race will be her seventeenth New York City Marathon, the first of which she ran at age sixty-nine. She is bound to be among the oldest athletes competing on Sunday. At last year’s event, she completed the course in six hours and nineteen minutes, best for first among octogenarian women—of whom there were two. “It’s nice to be the oldest, because there’s no more competition,” she says. Bedard was born in Metz, in northeastern France.
She runs ten miles a day, every day of the year, often on the sand a couple blocks from her home, in Howard Beach, Queens. She doesn’t train for marathons, as most participants do; she just runs. “When I do my ten miles, I come back happy,” she says. “Nothing’s going to stop me. I will never quit—never. Unless something tragic—maybe a heart attack or stroke or whatever.” Not even the death of her husband—also an avid daily runner—a few years ago, when he was eighty-nine, slowed her down.
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