{"id":253,"date":"2019-07-11T12:04:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T12:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themepalacedemo.com\/magazinews-pro\/?p=253"},"modified":"2019-07-11T12:04:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T12:04:17","slug":"the-worlds-fastest-old-man-is-71-holds-two-world-records-and-is-aiming-for-a-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/2019\/07\/11\/the-worlds-fastest-old-man-is-71-holds-two-world-records-and-is-aiming-for-a-third\/","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s fastest old man is 71, holds two world records and is aiming for a third"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Allie is 71 years old, and he is fast.<\/p>\n<p>Advertising<br \/>\nChances are, he is a much faster runner than you are \u2014 faster, in fact, than you ever were. Last year in Spain he broke his own world record in his age group for the 400 meters by more than a second. That is essentially a quarter-mile, one lap around a standard running track. He crossed the tape in 57.26 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of people, even when they are at their fastest, never come close to running 400 meters in less than a minute. Allie has been breaking one minute since he was a child. Now, he beats his competitors \u2014 the other fastest men in the world who are his age \u2014 by 30 or 40 meters.<\/p>\n<p>He set the world record in the 200 meters for the over-70 group last year, too. Still not impressed? At the World Masters Athletics Championships, he dropped down an age division and won two relay gold medals with the 65-year-olds. In that division, he ran faster than just about everyone except his good friend Bill Collins, who was a top American runner in the mid-1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Allie is 71 years old, and he is fast. Advertising Chances are, he is a much faster runner than you are \u2014 faster, in fact, than you ever were. Last year in Spain he broke his own world record in his age group for the 400 meters by more than a second. That is essentially a quarter-mile, one lap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2019\/07\/maarten-van-den-heuvel-ky1w7eac5EM-unsplash-e1563444585997.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogoholic-pro-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}