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Club Night: An Evening with Gene Dykes

Come join us for a special evening of running and conversation with Gene Dykes (world record holder in the marathon). Our run begins at 6:30pm at Sport Basement Presidio... where we'll run up to the Golden Gate Bridge, along the coast, through the Presidio, and back. After we return, we'll have pizza and refreshments for all and a conversation and Q&A with Gene.

Ed Whitlock’s famous marathon mark, once considered untouchable, has been beat by this man. Gene now holds that record in the marathon for those over age 70 - his time: 2:54:23. How do you keep running faster as you get older? Join us for a fun run and chat.

As Outside Magazine said... Dykes has become one of the most prolific and successful septuagenarian racers of all time, winning multiple masters national championships, setting a number of national records, becoming the oldest person ever to run the Triple Crown of 200s (three 200-mile races in a single year), and achieving a marathon PR of 2:54:23 at 70 years old. But Dykes is just hitting his stride; he didn’t run his first marathon until he was 58. “I was always a jogger to stay in shape, but I never ran hard until I retired at 64,” Dykes says.

The 71-year-old Pennsylvania resident is scheduled to run 34 races in 2019, including five marathons and 17 ultras, four of which are 100-plus-milers. He’ll travel to events in 13 different states and all over the world, hitting a 200-mile race in Australia, a 125K in the Azores, and a marathon in Canada—a grand total of 1,360 miles of racing. That doesn’t even include the local fun runs that Dykes will enter or the 1,500 miles of training he’ll put in this year. “I look in my calendar, and if I see an open weekend, it drives me nuts,” he says.

You can follow Gena on Strava at: https://www.strava.com/athletes/8709030

When:

Wednesday, August 14, 2019, 6:30 PM until 8:00 PM

Where:

Sports Basement Presidio
610 Old Mason Street
San Francisco, CA

Category:

Club Events

Registration is not Required

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