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do all these weights and all this stretching not just because you want to look good, but because it serves as a sort-of quasi rehab throughout your life." With 177,000 miles of running under his belt, Shorter is hardly slowing down. He rises at 7 a.m. to ride the spin bike for 50 minutes, catches up on work (consulting for races), runs for an hour in the afternoon five days a week, and hits the gym two or three times a week. At a svelte 5'9", 135 pounds, he still weighs about what he did in his prime. Shorter hasn't run a marathon since 2001. But after the tragic events he witnessed in person at the starting line of the Boston Marathon in 2013, he vowed to run it in 2014. He won't be running fast, he says, but that stopped being a priority a long time ago. "When you get to your 60s, your measure of success is no longer how fast you run," he says. "You realize that just being out there is pretty great in and of itself." Frank Shorter works out at RallySport in Boulder, where he has added more strength and flexibility training to maintain his athletic lifestyle into his golden years. Lynnda Best-Wiss World Champion Triathlete, age 62 Oct. 8, 2011, was a day of firsts for Lynnda Best-Wiss. First marathon. First bike ride longer than 100 miles. First swim longer than 2 miles - all as part of her first Ironman-distance triathlon. She picked a doozy – the notoriously hot and windy Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii (2.4 mile-swim, 112-mile bike, plus a marathon). And she was 60 years old. "It got really hot, about 98 degrees on the bike. But every time I started to feel bad, I would just look out at the ocean and say, 'Look where I am. I am Triathlete Lynnda Best-Wiss says "it's never too late" to set new athletic goals, as her accomplishments post-age 60 prove. doing this,'" she recalls. She finished sixth in her age group, with a time of 13:29:04. At age 62, she now competes in about eight triathlons or duathlons per year, consistently placing first or second, and coaches other Colorado athletes (some of them half her age) in run, bike and swim. "It takes work. It really does. But it's never too late to start new things." Best-Wiss's first love was running. But she grew up in an era before Title IX (the 1972 legislation requiring schools to provide more gender parity in athletics), so running programs for girls were hard to find. "We didn't have a track team or a basketball team. We had field hockey and that was it." Recognizing her talent, her parents sought out a private coach for Best-Wiss. At her peak, as a 14-year-old runner competing for the Amateur Athletic Union, she could run a half-mile in about 2:13. 40