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When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Running
Fall
Boston
At the finish line of the 1967 Boston Marathon, one crabby journalist said it was just a one-off deal and women weren't going to run. Only a 20-year-old who had just run a marathon and was shot full of endorphin would say this but I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Running
Men
Boston
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.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Race
Boston
Changed
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.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Running
Boston
Numbers
Jock Semple and I were at daggers drawn for five years, even though I kind of forgave him from the get-go. I knew he was an over-stressed race director, I knew he was protecting his race. It took five years because we had to do our homework - meaning we women - we did our legislative work and we officially got into the Boston Marathon. Then, all was forgiven by Jock Semple.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Race
Boston
Years
Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity. I wrote a big proposal to Avon cosmetics on how creating a global series of women's races could lead to getting women in the Olympic marathon. People thought I was smoking poppy at the time. The longest event in the Olympic Games was 800m.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Opportunity
Boston
Years
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.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
NewYork
NextDay
Boston