85-Year-Old Runner Who Keeps Racking Up Medals: ‘It’s My Job to Get People Moving’
“People often tell me that they’re inspired by my running, and they’re encouraged to do more to stay active because of it,” Harrison says. “I feel like this is my job and my purpose now, to get people moving, no matter their age.”
She even has a presentation she gives at community centers and schools, centering on how beneficial running and exercise can be on emotional health as well as physical health. Calling it “Motion Over Commotion,” she says it emphasizes how the motion of movement takes away the commotion in your head, clearing away all those little worries and bothers of everyday life.
Harrison also likes to tell her audiences that she’s a late bloomer when it comes to running. She started when she was 50 years old, and only began because one of her sons, then a junior in high school, wanted to be on a track team—except there wasn’t one. So the two of them ran around the parking lot of the school instead.
A few years later, after the family moved to Atlanta, she started running along a path by a river there and began to build her distance. It took her three years before she could complete a mile without stopping to walk.So she did, for three decades. Now running 11 miles a week, she stills that “commotion” in her mind by spending her time praying for family members as she runs, particularly for an identical twin sister who has.
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