HONOLULU -- Thousands of runners are training for the Honolulu Marathon, which is in three weeks.

KITV's Dick Allgire met a 90-year-old great-grandmother who is training to set a world record.

Gladys Burrill is in training for her fifth Honolulu Marathon.

In 2003 Burrill saw the fireworks at the start of the marathon from her lanai, and thought: "How exciting! I should do that."

So she trained in racewalking and now she's going for a record.

"Well, I plan to break the world record for women between 90 and 94 years of age," she said.

She hopes to finish the marathon in eight hours and 30 minutes.

Gladys is nicknamed the Glady-ator.

"Oh, it is exhilarating, even though back about a mile you get kind of weary, when the finish line gets in sight it's so exciting," she said.

Burrill has been a pilot, she's climbed Mount Hood and has 22 great-grandchildren. Her advice?

"It's important to be athletic -- exercise and doing something, walking is the best. Your attitude -- think positive and sometimes it might be hard to think positive, but you just do it."

That's not a bad athletic slogan. She'll do it beginning at 5 a.m. Dec 14 when runners line up on Ala Moana Boulevard for the Honolulu Marathon.