80 years old, runs 3:25:40 to break the 80-84 Marathon world record (7:50 mile pace)

Ed Whitlock goes sub-3:30 in Rotterdam Marathon for M80 WR

Ed Whitlock went from a WR in the mile to a WR in the marathon in three weeks. Today in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Ed ran 26.2 miles in 3 hours, 25 minutes, 40 seconds. As Race Results Weekly reported in its last paragraph: "Race director Mario Kadiks did manage to have a world record on the day, however. Canada's Ed Whitlock, 80 years old, ran a spectacular 3:25:43 (3:25:40 net) to smash the world 80-84 record of 3:39:18 set by Australia's Robert Horman at Brisbane in 1998." So how did you do on our prediction poll? Pretty good. About 43 percent of you said he'd run 3:25. Ed is pretty good, too. (Age-graded as 2:08:15.) Congrats on mind-boggling us again, Ed.