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Brisbane super-gran qualifies for Hyrox World Championships
It is hard enough to complete a Hyrox circuit but 62-year-old Australian Sue Rogers is not afraid of the difficult.
The Brisbane mother-of-three and grandmother-to-five is in Chicago to compete in the world championships of the viral fitness craze which has surged in popularity thanks to its addictive races.
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Think of Hyrox like an Olympics for everyday gym-goers.
There is a series of eight 1km runs split by eight different fitness stations including walking lunges, sled pulls and pushes, wall balls and burpee broad jumps.
It is not for the faint-hearted but Rogers smashed the event when she competed in Brisbane in March this year.
She qualified third fastest for her age group (60-64) and is one of 10,000 people at the championships this week.
She is representing Australia and proving age is just a number.
'My five grandchildren, one on the way, they do push-ups with me,' she told 7NEWS.
'They say, 'Where's nana? Oh yeah, she's exercising'.'
Rogers has reasons beyond fitness to keep her moving.
'My 'why' is to keep mobile and strong right into my more mature years — I don't know, 100-plus,' she told 7NEWS.
'I do it for the enjoyment, the feeling, the connection.
'Community and connection are my highest value, it floats my boat.'
Rogers also coaches at BFT Everton Park where the 'weapon' is getting others ready to enter their first Hyrox event in Sydney at the start of July.
'(Rogers is) so positive, her energy is very infectious,' one person in her class said.
Rogers will race on Friday.
