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jlynnbob


You'll ruin your knees!

    posted: 7/16/2007 at 4:38 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! http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://adventure.mountainzone.com/blogs/trail_running/uploaded_images/girlwhostartedit200x200-739198.jpg&imgrefurl=http://adventure.mountainzone.com/blogs/trail_running/&h=200&w=200&sz=27&hl=en&start=9&um=1&tbnid=PxqAseN_nwXA0M:&tbnh=104&tbnw=104&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522krissy%2Bmoehl%2522%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den Enjoy, Lynn B

    ""...the truth that someday, you will go for your last run. But not today—today you got to run." - Matt Crownover (after Western States)

    zoom-zoom


    Fanatic #3965

      posted: 7/16/2007 at 4:43 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

      Kirsten

      '07: 1324.5 | '08: 1561 | '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike | '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike | '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike '12: 659.9 run ~ 3365.6 bike (100% benched by ortho last 4.5 weeks while in long-arm cast)

      '13 Goals:

      • DON'T BREAK ANYTHING!!!

      • get within 5#s of 130#s (and stay there, gotdammit!)

      • 1st olympic distance duathlon

      • 1st Iceman Cometh mtn bike race

      • Half Fanatic

      • punch Type 1 in the junk

      jEfFgObLuE


      More Cowbell!

        posted: 7/16/2007 at 5:15 PM
        Shame that I didn't know her name, but could remember infamous Boston fraud Rosie Ruiz.

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

        reneemc


          posted: 7/16/2007 at 7:38 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.
          2008 Goals
        • Run 1250 miles
        • Get down to 135!
        • Break 5 hours in the NJ Marathon
          • Daddyo


          @BeachesRunner

            posted: 7/16/2007 at 9:12 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
            Daddyo


            @BeachesRunner

              posted: 7/16/2007 at 9:23 PM
              modified: 7/16/2007 at 9:24 PM
              urbansix


                posted: 8/5/2007 at 7:08 PM
                What a great article! Adidas flats - egads....
                urbansix


                  posted: 8/5/2007 at 7:16 PM
                  Quote from jEfFgObLuE on 7/16/2007 at 5:15 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.
                  zoom-zoom


                  Fanatic #3965

                    posted: 8/5/2007 at 7:16 PM
                    BTW, several of us are reading this and will be discussing this in the Running Readers forum. Smile k

                    Kirsten

                    '07: 1324.5 | '08: 1561 | '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike | '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike | '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike '12: 659.9 run ~ 3365.6 bike (100% benched by ortho last 4.5 weeks while in long-arm cast)

                    '13 Goals:

                    • DON'T BREAK ANYTHING!!!

                    • get within 5#s of 130#s (and stay there, gotdammit!)

                    • 1st olympic distance duathlon

                    • 1st Iceman Cometh mtn bike race

                    • Half Fanatic

                    • punch Type 1 in the junk

                    trishierunner


                    esq.

                      posted: 8/5/2007 at 8:15 PM
                      I read an excerpt of her book in Runner's World a couple of months ago. Gave me chills.
                      2009: BQ?
                      Mishka


                        posted: 8/10/2007 at 2:16 PM
                        Eve!
                        Chenille


                          posted: 8/10/2007 at 2:27 PM
                          Quote from Mishka on 8/10/2007 at 2:16 PM:
                          Eve!
                          Black eye Big grin

                          Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away...(unkown)




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