Gracie Hunt, the daughter of Kansas City Chiefs owner Clarke Hunt, has made an incredible claim regarding her athletic ability.
With her family getting ready for Sunday’s Super Bowl clash versus the Philadelphia Eagles, the New York Post has published a profile on the 23-year-old in which there’s some interesting stuff we would have probably never known otherwise.
One of these pertains to a claim about a marathon she ran last year. In the profile, Gracie reveals having ran her first such race last July. It seems to have happened by accident as she signed up after going hiking with her mom, without initially planning to.
“I signed up for my first marathon about 13 hours before the race started,” Gracie was quoted as saying.
“I had never run in a registered race before this point and had never run more than 13 miles consecutively, and that was on a treadmill several years before… [I] took a chance, registered at about 5 p.m. that evening, and ran it at 6 a.m. the next day, and finished it in three hours and 45 minutes, and that is what started my marathon career.”
Yeah, so we’re going to need some proof.
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MarathonHandbook.com notes that the average time to run a marathon is 4:21:03 – that’s for men. A woman’s average time is 4:48:45.
A ‘good’ marathon time across all sexes and ages is 3:48:20. Breaking it down by sex, 3:34:56 is a good marathon time for men, and 4:08:09 is a good marathon time for women.
The site breaks it down even further, with an “advanced” time for women marked at 3:40:30 and 3:19:09, which is considered “elite.”
It’s hard to believe that Gracie, as fit as she is, ran a marathon that quickly on her first try. If so, she’s just 26 minutes away from being elite.
She says she will run the Boston Marathon this April. So, yeah, we’ll be keeping a close watch.
