Do you think you can run or walk at 95? Maybe I should ask: “Do you think you are still alive at 95?” For Frank Levine who is 95-year-old now, both answers are “Yes!” He won the Champion title and set the world track record this summer for the 5,000-meter event under the 95 to 99-year-olds category.

“No one else was running, so I was by myself, but they were all yelling and applauding. I didn’t really hear them; I wasn’t listening to them. I was speaking to myself, ‘Hey, go! Go, fella, go!’”

Frank’s record-setting time at the USA Track Masters Championships this month was 50 minutes and 10 seconds.

He finished his first marathon when he was 65. Since then, he has logged 17 more.

“It is impressive, but if you do it, once you run two or three, you know you can do it,” Frank says. “I run two miles every other day.”

The walls of his Norristown home hold all that history, dotted with the medals, ribbons and accolades he’s collected over the years.
Ask Frank if he plans to keep competing and you’ll get the smile and laugh of a mind-over matter man.

“Sure, until I’m a 120.”

I think I should start running now; what’s the meaning of life if I can live until 100-year-old but sick, lying on the bed and wait for people to feed? My conclusion is – don’t live so long if you are not healthy…and wealthy!

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