105-YEAR-OLD GRANDMOTHER HAD BROKE THE WORLD RECORD ON THE 100-METER SENIOR RUN

In November of 2021, Julia Hawkins, who was 105 at the time had broke the world record at the Louisiana Senior Games, 100-meter run.
She was supposed to run 100 yards under 100 seconds, and as she stated, “And I did it in a lot less than that,”
She had finished the run in 62 seconds, as she stated, “I have done much better than that,”
“It was windy and cold, cold. But on that day it seemed to be the best I could have done with the weather like it was.”

As a retired teacher, Hawkins had stated that she had some of her old students at the Senior Games. “At that race I had three different children from three different schools from where I taught. And they’re 90 years old. They were in the fourth grade when I taught them and now they’re 90! That tells you how old I am,”
As she was upset that she couldn’t finish the race under a minute, she had became the record holder of the 100 meter dash at the 105+ ages.
“Well I knew it was a possibility because there are not that many older people doing things like this,”
“When I started running there were only a few, and they were not really athletes. Just older women trying to do something different. So I usually managed to beat the ones that weren’t really athletes.”
As she had a new thing for running, she had stated that she loved the time she spend with her late husband, who passed away a few years ago.
“He was from New Orleans and I was from Ponchatoula, which was a little town. When I saw him and met him and saw how smart he was and good looking, I went home and wrote about him in my diary,”
“He was in Pearl Harbor when it was bombed while he was out there working for the Navy. So when they sent him out there we were married by telephone. Which was unusual at that time. My father in law went with me to Baton Rouge to see if it was legal in Louisiana. And it was. So we were married by telephone,”
“Magic moments are something you see that you hadn’t seen often before. Like a sunrise that was especially pretty, or a sunset or a shooting star,”
“Amazing things like that are worth watching for. You don’t have to be wealthy to get to see them. You just have to be observant and keep a watch what’s out there.” Hawkins concluded.
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