Around 3 p.m. , her sister was not able to wake her up . `` This is the way she wanted to go , '' says the daughter of 86-year-old Joy Johnson . Sunday was her 25th appearance in the 26-mile New York Marathon . Johnson fell about six miles from the end race , but she kept going to finish . She finished with a time of 2:10:44 and set an American record for women over 50 years old at 26.2 miles.
`` This is the way she wanted to go , '' says the daughter of 86-year-old Joy Johnson . Sunday was her 25th appearance in the 26-mile New York Marathon . Johnson fell about six miles from the end race , but she kept going to finish . She finished with a time of 2:10:44 and set an American record for women over 50 years old at 26.2 miles.