This 107-year-old lady, often known as ‘the Hurricane,’ hasn’t allowed getting older limit her talents!

Indeed, in November 2021, during the Louisiana Senior Games, a competition for adults over 50, 105-year-old Julia Hawkins broke the previous world record for the fastest 100-meter run.

Hawkins admitted to WWNO that she hasn’t always run and that, in fact, one of her kids proposed that she

attempt to complete the 100-yard dash in less than a minute when she reached 100. She went on, ‘And I completed it in much less time than that.’

She aimed to complete the dash in less than a minute in the 2021 Louisiana Senior Games, five years later,

but in the end, she finished in just over 62 seconds. She said, ‘I have performed much better than that.’

‘It was really cold and windy.’ However, given the conditions at the time, it seemed like the best I could have done that day.

The fact that retired teacher Hawkins had a few of her former pupils supporting her from the sidelines was one of the race’s most touching features!

‘I had three separate kids at that event from three different schools where I worked as a teacher.

They are 90 years old as well. When I taught them, they were in the fourth grade; today, they are ninety years old! That reveals my age to you,’ she remarked.

Although she was unhappy not to have finished the dash in under a minute, she was happy to have won the quickest 100-meter dash in

the 105+ years old category. Her family was thrilled that she had won the marathon and broken the world record—a truly remarkable accomplishment!

She said, ‘Well, I knew it was a possibility because not many older people do things like this.’

There weren’t many people running when I started, and most of them weren’t particularly athletic. Just elderly women

attempting a fresh approach. Thus, I was frequently able to defeat those who weren’t true athletes.

Hawkins enjoys gardening, spending time with her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, in addition to her recently discovered love of running!

Before he passed away a few years ago, she was married to Murray Hawkins for 70 years, and she also cherished their time together.

‘I was from Ponchatoula, a small town, and he was from New Orleans. Regarding their early dating, she recalled,

‘I went home and wrote about him in my diary when I saw him and met him and saw how smart and good-looking he was.’

Eight years later, the two finally were married over the phone! ‘While serving with the Navy there, he was present when Pearl Harbor was bombed.

We were so telephone married when they sent him out there. This, at the time, was uncommon. Along with me,

my father-in-law traveled to Baton Rouge to check on the legality of it in Louisiana. It was, too. Thus, we got married over the phone,’ she remarked.

Hawkins offers some advice to others as she gets older, stating that we should constantly look for the ‘magic moments’ in life.

‘Magic moments are something you witness that you don’t commonly see in life. such as a particularly lovely sunrise,

sunset, or shooting star, the woman remarked. ‘Watching for incredible stuff like that is worthwhile.

To see them, you don’t need to be wealthy. All you need to do is be vigilant and aware of your surroundings.