Ages of the 2004 Austin Marathon Runners

Marathons seem to attract a lot of folks in their 30's and 40's. Perhaps it's a sort of mid-life crisis kind of thing. I put the race data of the 2004 Austin Motorola Marathon through some programs and generated a graph showing how ages are distributed. As can be seen 30 and 40 year-olds are the largest group. There were 206 40-year-olds who ran which is more than any other age.

AGE  Number Of Runners

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 13    1 

 14    1 

 15    3 

 16    3 

 17    8 **

 18   15 ***

 19   28 *******

 20   53 *************

 21   51 ************

 22   68 *****************

 23   78 *******************

 24  111 ***************************

 25  119 *****************************

 26  118 *****************************

 27  135 *********************************

 28  142 ***********************************

 29  174 *******************************************

 30  141 ***********************************

 31  141 ***********************************

 32  162 ****************************************

 33  197 *************************************************

 34  182 *********************************************

 35  179 ********************************************

 36  172 *******************************************

 37  160 ****************************************

 38  194 ************************************************

 39  166 *****************************************

 40  206 ***************************************************

 41  182 *********************************************

 42  152 **************************************

 43  133 *********************************

 44  132 *********************************

 45  134 *********************************

 46  138 **********************************

 47  119 *****************************

 48   86 *********************

 49   99 ************************

 50   92 ***********************

 51   87 *********************

 52   59 **************

 53   52 *************

 54   66 ****************

 55   51 ************

 56   47 ***********

 57   39 *********

 58   14 ***

 59   26 ******

 60   24 ******

 61   12 ***

 62   12 ***

 63   11 **

 64    8 **

 65   13 ***

 66    5 *

 67    5 *

 68    4 *

 69    7 *

 70    2 

 71    2 

 72    4 *

 74    1 

 75    2 

 79    1 

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Note: An asterisk (*) represents 4 runners in the graph