{"id":26155,"date":"2021-11-03T05:08:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T09:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=26155"},"modified":"2021-11-03T05:08:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T09:08:32","slug":"93-and-going-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/good-news\/2021\/11\/93-and-going-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"93 And Going Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A 93-year-old runner broke his own Canadian record Sunday morning, completing five kilometres in 36 minutes and 29 seconds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Canio Polosa flew over the finish line at Springbank Park in London, as part of the Halloween Haunting race.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His previous Canadian Masters Athletics record for his age group was five kilometres in 37 minutes and 41 seconds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Polosa started running at age 60.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The retired doctor practiced internal medicine and taught at McGill University at the time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At 80, he took a break from running to rest his knees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That break proved to be temporary when he laced up his running shoes once more in his 90s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Good News ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":25471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 06:45:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2021\/11\/93-and-going-strong\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26156,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26155\/revisions\/26156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}