{"id":271876,"date":"2026-02-07T05:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/271876\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T05:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:42:08","slug":"how-people-like-70-year-old-chow-yun-fat-keep-pushing-their-endurance-limits-as-they-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/271876\/","title":{"rendered":"How people like 70-year-old Chow Yun-fat keep pushing their endurance limits as they age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong actors Chow Yun-fat, 70, Kent Cheng, 74, Lau Kong, 79, and Paw Hee-ching, 76, made headlines in January for being among the oldest participants in the 10km event at the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, the then 69-year-old <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/society\/article\/3297955\/hong-kongs-chow-yun-fat-revels-half-marathon-finishes-under-2-1\/2-hours?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chow ran the half-marathon<\/a> at the event, completing the 13.1-mile (21km) race in two hours, 24 minutes and 33 seconds.Recently, a growing number of people in their sixties, seventies, eighties and older have been in the news for taking part in <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3316460\/how-women-can-conquer-endurance-sports-female-specific-training?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">endurance events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In October 2025, 80-year-old American Natalie Grabow became the oldest woman to finish the 140.6-mile (226.3km) Ironman World Championship triathlon in Kona, Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This gruelling race includes a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride and a full marathon run.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Korean-American Jeannie Rice, who turns 78 in April, is known for being a fast runner for her age. She has taken part in many marathons, including the 2025 Tokyo Marathon and the 2024 London Marathon \u2013 in which she set a new age-group record of three hours, 33 minutes and 27 seconds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jeannie Rice runs during a half-marathon in Naples, Florida, on January 18, 2026. The 77-year-old completed the race in 1:43:13, taking first place among the three competitors in the women\u2019s 75- to 79-year-old age group. Photo: Facebook\/jeannie.k.rice\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9930593e-26b9-4352-9cdf-74f7e60e3d41_cc46f6e7.jpg\" title=\"Jeannie Rice runs during a half-marathon in Naples, Florida, on January 18, 2026. The 77-year-old completed the race in 1:43:13, taking first place among the three competitors in the women\u2019s 75- to 79-year-old age group. Photo: Facebook\/jeannie.k.rice\"\/>Jeannie Rice runs during a half-marathon in Naples, Florida, on January 18, 2026. The 77-year-old completed the race in 1:43:13, taking first place among the three competitors in the women\u2019s 75- to 79-year-old age group. Photo: Facebook\/jeannie.k.rice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong actors Chow Yun-fat, 70, Kent Cheng, 74, Lau Kong, 79, and Paw Hee-ching, 76, made headlines&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,49576,94629,153716,153728,54286,2420,153718,4431,46925,22962,153724,153727,153712,153725,153713,153723,1775,120206,153726,153722,111,139,69,153714,153719,153711,153715,145,153721,153717,87429,153720],"class_list":{"0":"post-271876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-cairns","10":"tag-chow-yun-fat","11":"tag-endurance-races","12":"tag-european-journal-of-preventive-cardiology","13":"tag-guinness-world-records","14":"tag-hawaii","15":"tag-hiromu-inada","16":"tag-hong-kong","17":"tag-how-to-age-well","18":"tag-ironman-world-championship","19":"tag-jeannie-rice","20":"tag-journal-of-applied-physiology","21":"tag-kent-cheng","22":"tag-kona","23":"tag-lau-kong","24":"tag-london-marathon","25":"tag-malaysia","26":"tag-marathon-running","27":"tag-matilda-international-hospital","28":"tag-merdeka-118","29":"tag-new-zealand","30":"tag-newzealand","31":"tag-nz","32":"tag-paw-hee-ching","33":"tag-recovering-from-an-endurance-race","34":"tag-senior-athletes","35":"tag-standard-chartered-hong-kong-marathon-2026","36":"tag-technology","37":"tag-the-sky-race","38":"tag-tokyo-marathon","39":"tag-vo2-max","40":"tag-yim-pui-fun"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}