80-Year-Old Grandma Who Learned To Swim At 59 Just Became Oldest Ever Female Ironman Finisher

80-Year-Old Grandma Who Learned To Swim At 59 Just Became Oldest Ever Female Ironman Finisher

80-Year-Old Grandma Who Learned To Swim At 59 Just Became Oldest Ever Female Ironman Finisher 80-year-old Natalie Grabow becomes oldest female finisher in triathlon competition – Credit: Ironman With every step toward the finish line, Natalie Grabow was proving it’s never too late to get started. Earlier this month, the 80-year-old grandmother from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, became the oldest woman to ever finish the punishing Ironman World Championship triathlon in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. She swam 2.4 miles—even though she never learned to swim until she was almost 60—then she pedaled 112 miles on a bicycle and immediately ran a full 26.2-mile marathon to make history. ( Watch the video below… ) About 60 other competitors quit before they finished, all of them younger. Grabow did not. “She’s truly gritty,” Grabow’s coach, Michelle Lake, told NPR. “Natalie is the definition of grit and gratitude: Grateful to make it to the start line, grateful to get to do something she loves everyday, and grat…