In an anniversary year, we celebrate women's running pioneers

Courageous Persistence

In an anniversary year, we celebrate women's running pioneers

Between April and June 1972, 40 years ago, women were first able to officially run the Boston Marathon, the New York Women's Mini was created, and Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 became law. "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in . . . any educational program or activity receiving Federal assistance." From that legal prose, aimed primarily at academic programs, but applying inescapably to high school and college sports, every woman and every woman runner in America now younger than age 60 has benefited. And on October 1, 1972, the six women entrants in the New York City Marathon staged a protest sit-down for 10 minutes at the start so they could race on equal terms with the men. It has been revealing to meet these pioneers, women of courageous persistence, who above all simply loved to run and sought opp...

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