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She's 83 pounds, 4' 6" tall and 95 years old, but Ida Keeling is a giant in track and field.

"It's not the age, it's what you do with the age. Age ain't got nothing to do with it," Keeling said.

Just weeks ago, the feisty nonagenarian set the record for 60 meters in 29.86 seconds, earning the crown for the world's fastest sprinter in the 95-99 age group at the New Balance Track and Field Center at the Washington Heights Armory.

05:40 "When I heard I broke the record I say 'Gee,' then I heard worldwide, I was like a blossom. When you water a dry plant, I just open right up," Keeling said.

One might assume Ida Keeling's been running since childhood, but not so. She started when she was a spry 67 and her track career was born out of tragedy. One of her sons was murdered in cold blood. Two years later, another son was brutally killed. Both of their deaths were drug related. Her daughter, Shelley, says her mother started running to relieve her overwhelming grief.

"When that second brother was murdered, my mother's pressure was 206 over 106 and I remember saying to her, 'You have four kids, but I only have one mother. You're going to have to do something,'" said Shelley Keeling.

Born in Hell's Kitchen on May 5, 1915, Ida Keeling is a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker. She spent much of her childhood in Harlem, moved to Queens and now lives alone in the Bronx. Her husband died of a heart attack when he was 42. Even though Ida suffers with arthritis all over her body, she refuses to give in to the pain.

"When you are sitting around doing nothing, you get that old, that you can't make it feeling. When I feel that feeling coming on I'm up and out," Keeling said.

And if she can't make it outside, she'll run in the hallway of her apartment building. When the weather is nice, she often joins her daughter for laps around the track.

Derrick Adkins, a 1996 Olympic gold medalist, calls Ida and other so-called "masters track athletes" an inspiration.

"I give them just as much credit as I give myself because given the age and the obstacles, they're doing great," Adkins said.

Ida Keeling has many goals in mind. She hopes to set the record for the 100-year-old age group, and her many fans believe she's just the one to do it.