The Relay That Never Ends
In 2018, Kathrine Switzer returned to the Boston Marathon — fifty-one years after she became the first woman to officially run it. In 1967, race...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Hebrews 11:29-12:2.
In 2018, Kathrine Switzer returned to the Boston Marathon — fifty-one years after she became the first woman to officially run it. In 1967, race official Jock Semple had physically tried to rip the bib from her chest mid-race. Other runners shielded her. She finished anyway. When Switzer crossed that finish line again at age seventy-one, something remarkable happened. Thousands of women runners lined the course, cheering her forward.…
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