There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout

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What I've done in this older part of my life is I started foundation called 261 Fearless, named after my old ,1967 Boston Marathon, bib number.I thought we could create training and a communicative, non-judgmental platform, in a movement to let them know they're not alone. Then fearless women can reach out to help women who are fearful and take that first step using the vehicle of running because it's transformational. It works for every woman every time.

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1967 race in Boston changed not just my life, but millions of women's lives. There are also things that, when you get older, resonate more.

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If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

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Life is for participating, not for spectating.

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All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.

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Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

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A picture, of Jock Semple kissed me,appeared in The New York Times the next day after Boston Marathon in 1973, and the caption was "The end of an era.

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Women is out because she's getting in her daily dose of empowerment, freedom and fearlessness. She has put on her freedom wings for 20 minutes or two hours. That's going to make her whole day right and her whole future hold up and seem entirely possible. The sense of her not having any limits, or any restrictions, to me, is so liberating. She doesn't have to prove anything.

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I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I obviously had a great sense of vision. And I was right.

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