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A memoir from the woman who challenged the all-male tradition of the Boston Marathon.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Switzer, Kathrine
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Da Capo Press, 2017.
Edition:	Second Da Capo Press paperback edition.
Subjects:	Switzer, Kathrine. Women runners > United States > Biography. Marathon running. Autobiographies.
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Summary:	A memoir from the woman who challenged the all-male tradition of the Boston Marathon.
Item Description:	"Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Historic Run"--Cover. Includes index.
Physical Description:	418 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN:	0306825651 9780306825651
Author Notes:	Kathrine Switzer , one of the greatest icons in sports, has been an authority on running and women's fitness for over forty years. She is best known for pioneering the official entrance of women into the marathon, beginning with her epoch-making run in the previously all-male Boston Marathon in 1967, and went on to become a world-ranked athlete and the winner of the 1974 New York Marathon. Switzer is an Emmy-award winning television commentator, having covered a continuous string of the sport's major events, including the Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, and Los Angeles marathons, as well as the Olympic and Goodwill Games. Her first book, Running and Walking for Women Over 40 , has sold over 100,000 copies. She lives in New Paltz, NY.