One day it was just Arnie and me running during a blizzard, and while he told another story, I said, “let’s stop talking about it and run it.” During that snowy run, he said that women couldn't run a marathon, I said that that was ridiculous.Īt the time the prevailing mindset and myth were that women were not physiologically able to run 26.2 miles.
When I trained with the Syracuse men's team, he told these inspirational stories about what he saw and experienced running Boston. I wanted to run a marathon, and I wanted to run Boston because my coach, Arnie Briggs, had run it 15 times.
Kathrine Switzer: I think it’s really important for me to say that when I ran that race I wasn’t trying to prove anything.
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