Boston Marathon icon Kathrine Switzer on how her Army dad inspired a love of running - Military Kid - Military Families
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Boston Marathon icon Kathrine Switzer on how her Army dad inspired a love of running - Military Kid - Military Families
In the 20 years of Kathrine Switzer’s life before her participation as the first woman to enter the Boston Marathon, she said she had “never been manhandled, never even spanked as a child.” Less than a handful of miles through the 1967 Boston Marathon, she was attacked by race manager Jock Semple who shouted at her, “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers!” Switzer finished the race on April 19, 1967, refusing to fall victim to th…
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