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Special 50th Anniversary edition of “Marathon Woman” to be released April 2017

February 5, 2017

I am delighted to announce that my book Marathon Woman is being re-released in a special 50th Anniversary edition for the upcoming Boston Marathon! And take a look–it’s been reviewed in the New York Times! As if all this isn’t cool enough, the author of the article is Lela Moore, who is running with me and…Read More

NYT Review: A Sport Comes a Long Way in ‘Free to Run’, Daniel M. Gold

July 16, 2016

“Free to Run” is an idiosyncratic account of the rise of long-distance running over the last 50 years, viewing it not so much as sport as a social revolution shaking off the tyranny of running federations that limited participation. Amid glimpses of Jim Fixx, Frank Shorter and Joan Benoit, the director Pierre Morath tells the…Read More

First Woman’s Strides in Boston Still Echoing

April 15, 2007 | NY Times | Sports | Kathrine Switzer

Two miles into the 1967 Boston Marathon, an official tried to eject me from the race simply because I was a woman. That event changed my life and, as a consequence, the lives of millions of women around the world. The marathon was a man’s race in those days; women were considered too fragile to…Read More

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Special 50th Anniversary edition of “Marathon Woman” to be released April 2017

NYT Review: A Sport Comes a Long Way in ‘Free to Run’, Daniel M. Gold

First Woman’s Strides in Boston Still Echoing

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