LONG BRANCH, N.J. - For the first time since the pandemic, the Penn Relays are back at Philadelphia's Franklin Field.
One runner is proving the competition isn’t just for young athletes."If you’re going to go out to run a race, you should really run the race and try to win.
I don’t know how you can run to be second or third," Lester Wright stated.Anyone can say that with a perfect blend of bravado and humility, but only if that person is 100-year-old Lester Wright.Friday, Wright celebrated his birthday and Saturday, he will lace up his track shoes to compete in the Senior Masters Division at the Penn Relays."Everybody is elated.
They’re excited he’s doing it. They want to be part of it," Lester’s grandson, John Wall, stated.Lester, a Long Branch, New Jersey native, where he met his wife in high school, both of whom competed in track events in the late 1930s.