Paul Perry runs 6:36 pace at the Armory track in New York. His style of speedwork will impress any runner.
Perry first started running as a child, and he competed through college at Georgetown University, where he ran 4:08 for the indoor mile his senior year. But after graduation, he knew he wasn’t going to make the Olympics. He stopped running, went to law school, and became a prosecutor in Chicago.One night at a party, when Perry was 45, a friend told him about races for masters runners. “I didn’t even know they had races for old guys,” he said. Perry started training again.
When he was 54, and in the middle of one of his most serious murder cases, prosecuting a hitman, Perry ran a mile in 4:48—a single-age world record at the time. He had slowed only 40 seconds in 33 years. As for the hitman? “He got 80 years,” Perry said. These days, Perry follows an unconventional training plan. Whenever he can, he goes to one of the tracks near his home in the Chicago suburbs and runs 6 x 600 meters with 200 meters rest between each. He’ll do it as many days in a row as his legs will allow. It’s a method he says he picked up from a book,
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