SAN DIEGO (The San Diego Union-Tribune) –

No 90-year-old woman has ever run a faster marathon anywhere than the race 91-one-year-old Harriette Thompson ran at the San Diego Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Sunday.

She finished the course in 7 hours, 7 minutes and 42 seconds. Beat the record? She shattered it.

USA Track & Field records the previous fastest time was 8:53:08, run by 90-year-old Mavis Lindgren in Portland, Ore., in 1997.

Thompson wasn’t running to eclipse that mark, though. She was running to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, for which she’s raised $90,000.

She started the race about 6:15 a.m. and ended close to 1:30 p.m. Spending so long on your feet is an accomplishment for anyone, let alone a grandmother battling skin cancer who endured nine radiation treatments over 11 days about a month before the race.

Her longest run/walk before the marathon? Six miles.

Thompson, who lives in Charlotte, N.C., began running marathons at age 76. She’s now run 15. If she returns next year, she’ll be 92 years old, or the same age runner Gladys Burrill was when she finished the 2010 Honolulu Marathon in 9 hours and 53 minutes.

Competitor says Thompson is the second-oldest marathon finisher in world history, so there’s another record out there for her.