Running a 100-meter race at 105 years old is no ordinary feat, but for Julia Hawkins, the competition was one of her many achievements.
“This is just a drop in the bucket,” Hawkins, who joined the record books for the Louisiana Senior Olympic Games after she became the oldest American and the first woman in the centenarian age group to run a 100-meter race, told CBS News.
With a finishing time of just under 1 minute and 3 seconds, Hawkins described herself as “so happy” for the opportunity, saying she might even do it again.
“Yeah, right now,” she joked to a group of reporters after the event, wearing her first-place medal. “[At 106], maybe so. Who knows? I’ll have to see how I feel in the morning.” (She turns 106 in February.)
“I met him the first day at LSU. I went home and wrote about him in my diary. He was so smart and so clever and so fun. He had a good sense of humor, and he was vivacious and wonderful. We were married by telephone,” she explained.
“This is just a drop in the bucket”: At 105 years old, Julia Hawkins became the first woman and first American in her age group to run 100 meters.
But she says it doesn’t compare to the many wonderful things in her life, like her 70-year-long marriage to her husband, Murray
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“This is just a drop in the bucket”: At 105 years old, Julia Hawkins became the first woman and first American in her age group to run 100 meters.
But she says it doesn't compare to the many wonderful things in her life, like her 70-year-long marriage to her husband, Murray. pic.twitter.com/Z18rWKEm5Y
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The couple raised four children and were joyously married until “Buddy,” as she called him, passed away at 95 years old.
“Without him, it [life] is not the same. It’s not quite as wonderful,” Hawkins shared.
Besides running, a passion Hawkins took up after she turned 100-years-old, she enjoys gardening and was a teacher during her working years. Two of her students, Rosemary and Evelyn, 90 and 89 years old respectively, ultimately joined her for the record-setting race.
The record is her most recent, after first setting a running record at 101 and 103 years old.
“I’m most proud of my children and my husband. They were the wonderful things in my life — and the grandchildren, and the great-grandson. Those are things you just can’t beat that,” she said at the time. “This other (the running) is just a little icing on the cake.”
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