80-year-old distance runner doesnt plan to slow down anytime soon

He’s taken it all in stride.Long Island senior citizen David Frisone is the talk of the running world, lacing up his sneakers to race — and win — twice a week at the age of 80.“Most people I run with are a good 15, 20 years younger than me,” the speedy man of New Hyde Park told The Post.“They always try to beat me, but I win most of them.”Frisone has run the New York City and Boston Marathons in the past, and typically participates in a mix of 5K and 10K races on select weeknights — all while training for larger half-marathons in between.“People are telling me I should concentrate on shorter races now,” the Nassau resident said.First stepsHe discovered his knack for the track at Brooklyn’s Erasmus Hall High School, where he ran all three seasons of indoor and outdoor track and cross country in the 1960s.Frisone then attended Staten Island Community College, which did not have a team, and ultimately hung up his shoes for a few decades after.“That’s life.

You start raising a family — I have three kids, and a wife, of course,” said Frisone, who worked as a director of engineering implementation and later an accountant.However, when his trio of pride and joy discovered the family genetics and wanted to start running as kids, that moved Frisone to come out of retirement in his 40s.“They were very impressed then — and still are today,” Frisone said.“Not running for 20 years, that actually probably helped me save my legs, kept my legs fresh.

It was an accidental secret weapon.”After catching his second wind, Frisone and his wife, Maureen, took on the gargantuan NYC Marathon, which he finished in about 5 hours in 2010.Then, five years later on a brutally cold April morning, Frisone notched what he called his most significant ever achievement on foot — acing the Boston Marathon in about 4 hours and 34 minutes.“Boston was bad weather, cold, rain — but when you’re addicted to running, you just go for it,” he said.Best foot fo...