Within the running community, the 1982 boston marathon is arguably the most memorable race in the modern era. Kathrine switzers marathon woman is not really about running. Running the race to revolutionize women s sports full online. Treat yourself to a weekend full of pampering and relaxation. Running the race to revolutionize womens sports by switzer, kathrine isbn. She is best known for pioneering the official entrance of women into the marathon, beginning with her epochmaking run in the previously allmale boston marathon in 1967, and went on to become a worldranked athlete and the winner of the 1974 new york marathon. In 1967, she checked the rules and found nothing explicitly preventing a woman from running, but, just in case, she signed up as k. However, seven years before gibb hid in the bushes and snuck into the boston marathon in 1966 and eight years before switzer ran boston as k. Running the race to revolutionize womens sports ebook.
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