RunningAHEAD - Topic: "The Girl Who Started It All"

jlynnbob

You'll ruin your knees!

posted: 7/16/2007 at 5:38 PM

Here is an article excerped from a book by Karen Switzer titled Marathon Woman, about the first woman to officially complete the Boston Marathon. It is quite gripping!

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 7/16/2007 at 5:43 PM

I need to read that. There is a blurb about her in the current Her Sports + Fitness magazine and I read a short story by her in a book of short stories (Sole Sisters) by women runners. It's hard to believe that it's been so few years since women were "allowed" to do marathons in this country.... k

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

jEfFgObLuE

I've got a fever...

posted: 7/16/2007 at 6:15 PM

Shame that I didn't know her name, but could remember infamous Boston fraud Rosie Ruiz.

On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.

reneemc

posted: 7/16/2007 at 8:38 PM

One of my favorite moments of my running career (so far) was when I was about to cross the finish line at the More Half Marathon and there was Kathrine Switzer high-fiving people and cheering. Nothing like having the woman who proved you could this be out there when you're doing it.

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Get down to 135!

Break 5 hours in the NJ Marathon

Daddyo

Go Pre!

posted: 7/16/2007 at 10:12 PM

Lovely lady. I met her at last year's Toronto Marathon when I bought a book from her. The book being 26.2 Marathon stories co-written with Roger Robinson. Great coffee table book and mine is nicely autographed by both of them Smile

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Daddyo

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posted: 7/16/2007 at 10:23 PM
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urbansix

posted: 8/5/2007 at 8:08 PM

What a great article! Adidas flats - egads....

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urbansix

posted: 8/5/2007 at 8:16 PM

Quote from jEfFgObLuE on 7/16/2007 at 6:15 PM:

Shame that I didn't know her name, but could remember infamous Boston fraud Rosie Ruiz.

Lol - Wiki has a Ruiz article but nothing on Switzer.

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 8/5/2007 at 8:16 PM

BTW, several of us are reading this and will be discussing this in the Running Readers forum. Smile

k

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

trishierunner

esq.

posted: 8/5/2007 at 9:15 PM

I read an excerpt of her book in Runner's World a couple of months ago. Gave me chills.

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Mishka-old log

posted: 8/10/2007 at 3:16 PM

Eve!

Chenille

posted: 8/10/2007 at 3:27 PM

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Eve!

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