Eight years ago mary jansen of Dallas decided that half a century of sedentary living was enough, and she began to train for a marathon. The day of the race, it took her more than six hours to chug across the finish line. "I took my time because I was enjoying myself," she says. Since then, the now 62-year-old grandmother has entered almost every kind of competition she can find: race walking, cycling, swimming and even triathlons. She never wins, but she always finishes. "I'm very slow. Endurance and strength are what I'm about," she says. "Do I feel bad about taking seven hours to complete a marathon? Hell no!" Age, she says, has given her so much confidence she doesn't worry about coming in last.
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