![]() ![]() Switzer then began a crusade to create other opportunities for women in running and began organising in club races. “There’s always that split second of fear and embarrassment where you want to walk off the course but actually what I decided to do it, somehow, at age 20, made the decision to finish the race, no matter what.” Switzer says she tried to embrace the incident and turn it into a positive. “It was such an iconic moment and the photo of the incident became one of the iconic photos of the women’s rights movement all these years later.” “All of them have had their lives changed by running and in many ways of that particular incident, of the official jumping off the press truck, attacking me and trying to throw me out of the race. ![]() ![]() Switzer told Kathryn Ryan this time around she will be running with 125 others 118 of them women. “A thoughtfully written memoir… still running strong she’s headed back to Boston this year to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her 1967 pioneering run, making this a perfect time to brush up on running history.Listen to Kathrine Switzer's full interview Now a spokesperson for Reebok, Switzer is also the founder of 261 Fearless, a foundation dedicated to creating opportunities for women on all fronts, as this groundbreaking sports hero has done throughout her life. She made history-and is poised to do it again on the fiftieth anniversary of that initial race, when she will run the 2017 Boston Marathon at age seventy. In one of the most iconic sports moments, Switzer escaped and finished the race. In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to officially run what was then the all-male Boston Marathon, infuriating one of the event’s directors who attempted to violently eject her. A new edition of a sports icon’s memoir, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Kathrine Switzer’s historic running of the Boston Marathon as the first woman to run. ![]()
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