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Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports

I can not remember a book that I've read in the last two years that was as good as this one. I wrote a short book review here, however, I'm working on a complete essay about this book.

In a nutshell, Kathy Switzer was the first woman to wear a number at the Boston Marathon, 1967. She ran it in 4:20. From that day on, her passion was to get women to run. She pursued that passion until it was an Olympic event in 1984. She traveled all over the world promoting running for women. It also basically follows the world of women in sports at this time. The myths were amazingly stupid at that time- "your uterus will fall out" " you won't be able to have babies", ridiculous things.

Read this book, you will be inspired to get out and run!