Here's a quick history lesson:
https://y42k.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/tbt-the-first-woman-to-run-a-marathon-wasnt-kathrine-switzer/
Here's a quick history lesson:
https://y42k.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/tbt-the-first-woman-to-run-a-marathon-wasnt-kathrine-switzer/
There is a short book out on her (99 cents). Here is some more information with photos and links to articles on Mary: http://recoveryourstride.blogspot.com/2012/06/americas-first-female-marathon-runner.html
I think you misread the article. She was the first US woman.
1918 - Marie-Louise Ledru hobby-jogged the Tour de Paris marathon in 5:40
1926 - Violet Percy set the first official World's Best of 3:40:22
Actually...
PIKES PEAK: THE FIRST WOMEN’S MARATHON
Running history often notes Roberta Gibb and Kathrine Switzer as among the first American women to run a marathon. However, seven years before Gibb hid in the bushes and snuck into the Boston Marathon in 1966 and eight years before Switzer ran Boston as K.V. Switzer in 1967, Arlene Pieper had finished the Pikes Peak Marathon in 1959. Pieper not only completed one of America’s most challenging marathons but became the first official female finisher of a marathon in the United States.
The Pikes Peak Marathon was the first American marathon to allow female competitors. Actually, women were allowed entry from the beginning of the event in 1956, but it was not until 1958 when female competitors were featured. That year Arlene Pieper entered the Marathon but chose to stop at the top, causing her to be disqualified due to a mandatory round-trip rule at the time. The following year, 1959, women were given the choice of a race to the summit only or to complete the round trip. Katherine Heard, 59, (who would later marry race founder Rudy Fahl) competed against 29-year-old Pieper and Pieper’s ten-year-old daughter. Heard was first to the summit in 5:17:52 but opted not to descend the mountain. When Pieper reached the summit four minutes later, she started back down. With a time of 9:16, she became the first woman on record to officially complete a U. S. marathon, and that with an elevation change of over 7,000 feet! It was her daughter, though, who most impressed spectators at the summit with her time of 5:44:52, becoming the youngest competitor at that point to finish the race to the summit. It was not until 1971 when a woman would attempt such a feat on Pikes Peak again.
Just heard about Arlene Pieper's death last month. She died on February 11.
https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/04/21/arlene-pieper-marathon
https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a20823056/the-trailblazer-arlene-pieper/
trollin' along wrote:
Just heard about Arlene Pieper's death last month. She died on February 11.
https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/04/21/arlene-pieper-marathonhttps://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a20823056/the-trailblazer-arlene-pieper/
Thanks a lot for this story. I was not aware of her.
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a 1989 Ferrari 348 GTB and he's just put in paperwork to upgrade it
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
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