download marathon woman running the race to revolutionize women's sports

download marathon woman running the race to revolutionize women

Three weeks before the marathon, Arnie and I ran our 26-mile trial. Hot damn, I thought, I have a coach, a training partner, a plan, and a goal: the biggest race in the world-Boston. If you ran the distance in practice, I'd be the first to take you to Boston.' I grinned through the gloom and flakes. Then he added, 'If any woman could do it, you could, but you would have to prove it to me. 'No dame ever ran the Boston Marathon!' he shouted, as skidding motorists nearly killed us. 'No woman can run the Boston Marathon,' Arnie fired back.Īrnie insisted the distance was too long for fragile women to run and exploded when I said that Roberta Gibb had jumped into the race and finished it the previous April. I loved listening to them-until this night when I snapped and said, 'Oh, let's quit talking about the Boston Marathon and run the damn thing!' To cajole me through tough evening sessions like this, Arnie told and retold stories of famous Bostons.

He was excited to see a woman-the first-come out to run, and took slowpoke me under his training wing. Arnie was actually the university mailman and a veteran of 15 Boston Marathons. That's where I met 50-year-old Arnie, who had trained for years with the team. I was a 19-year-old journalism student at Syracuse University, and since there was no women's running team there or anywhere else for that matter, I began training unofficially with the men's cross-country team. It was in Syracuse, New York, where God first invented snow and never let up.

Please do not go to the relay point in Landsrade and Margraten, so there will be enough parking spaces for participants over there.On a dark six-mile run in a wild snowstorm in mid-December 1966, I had a terrible argument with my otherwise kindly old coach, Arnie Briggs. Therefore we selected some places for supporters to watch the event. But keep in mind there will be some single tracks, hard to reach places and not so much parking places.

Download marathon woman running the race to revolutionize women's sports