Like the proverbial Energizer Bunny, marathoner Margot Devlin just keeps going and going.

The Niagara-on-the-Lake resident completed her 13th New York City Marathon on Sunday, a phenomenal accomplishment for anyone, let alone a senior who trains at home and on the streets of NOTL.

Devlin is a veteran marathoner, who earlier this year ran her sixth London marathon and also added the Paris race to her collection. Overall, she has finished more than 20 marathons.

On Sunday, she completed the 42-kilometre race in just over seven hours, running in the 65 to 69 age category.

For Devlin it’s all about finishing — she doesn’t worry about how fast she runs or how many others cross the finish line ahead of her.

“There were 59,000 people in this year’s marathon from over 120 countries,” she told The Lake Report.

It was “amazing,” she added.

“People of all ages participated and there was a huge group of physically challenged participants.”

The New York race keeps the finish line open until every participant finishes.

“One fellow, I heard, walks the marathon every year and it takes him 10 hours. An 85-year-old Italian man that I met has done over 36 New York Marathons,” she said.

Devlin noted the New York Road Runners Streakers Club lists more than 1,500 people of all ages, from an assortment of countries, each of whom has run at least 15 New York Marathons. “Inspiring,” she said.

“Hopefully my old legs keep working so that I can join that club.”

That is one of her goals because in addition to being a milestone, after you complete 15 NYC Marathons on future race days runners are able to warm up in a heated tent on Staten Island, sheltered from the elements.

The logistics of co-ordinating 59,000 runners on the streets of New York are complex.

“It was a bit of a challenge getting through security at Staten Island this year. Usually it moves slowly as we all go through the metal detectors and wanding, but this year we got off the buses and stood still for over an hour in the sun.”

And timing is interesting at the Big Apple run. “There is an expo before marathon day where you pick up your bib after standing in line for 30 to 40 minutes,” Devlin said.

On race day, you get on a bus around 6 in the morning, after lining up for half an hour, she said. It gets you to Staten Island around 7 a.m. and then runners go out in waves from 8 to 11:30 a.m.

“Because I am slow, I was in the last wave. Patience is a virtue in this marathon,” she said.

For now, she can rest and relax a bit until training begins for her next race — her seventh London Marathon in April.