70 YEARS OLD AND STILL RUNNING.Byline: Gerry Gittelson Daily News Staff Writer Like a grandfather clock, Harry Anderson
Harry Anderson (born October 14, 1952) is an American actor and magician. Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Anderson was a street magician before becoming an actor. keeps on running. Anderson, 70 years young, will compete in his fourth L.A. Marathon on Sunday. What keeps him going? ``It's good for my health,'' said Anderson, a retired McDonnell-Douglas machinist. ``Besides, I'm pretty fast.'' Anderson is no run-of-the-mill marathoner. He finished 20th among 76 runners in his age group last time and expects to improve dramatically this year because he's in a new group that goes from 70 to 75 years old. He says there is only one marathoner his age who has better times. Anderson covered the 26-plus miles in 4 hours, 35 minutes last year. ``There's one guy who ran a 4:07, so I'm hoping to come in either first or second on Sunday,'' Anderson said. Waking at 4 a.m. every morning, Anderson has been running nine miles Nine Miles is a reggae "band" started by Yoshiaki Manabe (真鍋吉明) of The Pillows. The name Nine Miles comes from the name of the town in which Bob Marley grew up in Jamaica.
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