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04/10/2007 IN '67, KATHRINE SWITZER EVEN HAD TO CONVINCE HER COACH SHE COULD DO THE BOSTON MARATHON

She successfully changed his mind and the minds of so many others about women and running


PUBLISHED 04/10/2007

Switzer, whom Joan Benoit Samuelson has called "the Susan B. Anthony of running," was running up to ten miles a day in Syracuse but when she told her coach she wanted to go 26.2 miles in Boston, "he just couldn't believe a woman was physically capable of something that arduous." But she convinced him she could, and he became her ally. And his wasn't the only mind that Switzer changed.

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