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Part-time Colorado Springs resident may be world's most athletic 79-year-old

(Thanks to PikesPeakSports.us member Christi Keiser for alerting us to this link)

By Lynn DeBruin, Sports Media Exchange

Forget 60 being the new 40. Lyle Langlois makes 80 look like the new 40.

Truth is, the soon-to-be octogenarian has been running circles around men less than half his age for years.

The retired computer professor (Glendale College) from Arizona, who has a second home in Colorado, has run a marathon in every state, completed an Ironman, bicycled across the country four times, and in mid-March attained yet another goal -- finishing 100 races between ages 70 and 80, including about 30 triathlons.

He's already bicycled the circumference of New Zealand's South Island, run around the Sea of Galilee and ascended 14,110-foot Pikes Peak in Colorado seven times.

That's where he'll celebrate the big 8-0 in June, ascending to a bed-and-breakfast at 10,200 feet with a legion of family and friends.

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