Elizabeth Waywell of Guelph, Ont., smashed two Canadian masters information in a single fell swoop at Sunday’s Financial institution of America Chicago Marathon, topping her division within the race and setting a brand new Canadian W65 marathon report of three:14:18, whereas additionally setting the nationwide W65 girls’s half-marathon report by ending the entrance finish in 1:35:01.
Her sensational efficiency within the Windy Metropolis on the weekend noticed the runner lop greater than seven minutes off the earlier W65 report (3:21:38) set by Morag McDonah two years in the past.
Waywell’s speedy first half additionally shaved greater than a minute and a half off the nationwide W65 half-marathon report set by Jennifer MacDonell final 12 months (1:36:32).
Waywell’s latest nationwide information—her first within the W65 age group—increase the variety of Canadian masters information Waywell holds to an astonishing 9. These embody W60 information within the 8K (32:52), the 5-mile (33:02), the 10K (41:08), the 10-mile (1:10:17), the half-marathon (1:29:53) and the marathon (3:07:56). She additionally holds the Canadian 30K report within the W55 age group.
Waywell made clear earlier this 12 months she had no plans to decelerate when she was inducted into the Guelph Sports activities Corridor of Fame. “Effectively, I feel I haven’t run my quickest races but, so I hope to enhance and be extra worthy of it,” she advised Guelph At present of receiving the honour in Might.
Meet Elizabeth Waywell, new Canadian 60-64 marathon record-holder
Whereas her rising record of Canadian information is one thing she could be pleased with, Waywell has stated her best second in operating thus far has been racing within the Comrades Marathon in South Africa. She accomplished the 90K course—her first ultramarathon— in 2018 in eight hours and 11 minutes to win her age group by greater than an hour.
“I ran it within the down 12 months, however you’re nonetheless going by these unimaginable hills and the 12 months I ran it was 90.184 km and ending that, to me, was an absolute thrill, and I feel it’s simply one of the simplest ways to see the very best of South Africa. It was an exquisite, fantastic occasion.”
In the meantime, American runner Jeannie Rice continued her run of blistering performances in 2023 by breaking the marathon W75 world report along with her 3:34:32 end in Chicago.
In July, the 75-year-old from Mentor, Ohio, shattered the ladies’s 75-79 world information within the 1,500m (6:14.88), 5,000m (22:41.46) and 10,000m (46:53.07) in her debut on the USATF Masters Monitor and Area Nationwide Championships in Greensboro, N.C.
That was on the heels of her unimaginable 3:33:15 end at this 12 months’s Boston Marathon, simply three days after her seventy fifth birthday. Though that was sooner than her time from Chicago this weekend, outcomes from the Boston course can’t be thought-about as official information underneath World Athletics guidelines, which stipulate a course’s common elevation lower can’t be higher than one metre per kilometre. (The Boston course is a web downhill).
In March, Rice received the ladies’s 70+ age class on the 2023 Tokyo Marathon in 3:31:22 to obtain her six-star finisher medal–finishing all six Abbott World Marathon Majors.
