If I quit, everybody would say it was a publicity stunt. Quotes edit I knew if I quit, nobody would ever believe that women had the capability to run 26-plus miles. One day in the year hundreds of nobodies stand out as better conditioned athletes than all of the town’s over-publicized professionals. Kathrine Virginia 'Kathy' Switzer (born January 5, 1947, in Amberg, Germany) is an American marathon runner, author, and television commentator. “I made it,” he says, feeling like Hillary on Everest. A Newton cop named Frankie ‘O’Halloran does it by showing himself he can run all the way. Hemingway thought he had to go out and shoot lions to prove himself. Tragedy, farce, thriller, problem play-the Marathon is all of these. It is seen by more people and done by more people than any other spectacle we have. The Marathon is Boston’s finest sporting event because of its wide-open nature, its embracing of everyman-the demented and the daring, the heroes and the hopeless. Switzer became the first woman with an official number to run the Boston Marathon on April 19, 1967, despite race director Jock Semple’s attempt to forcefully stop her near the two. In the 1967 Boston Marathon, Kathrine Switzer was pushed from behind by Jock Semple, who argued that women should be prohibited from competing in the race.

What are these ill-mannered men trying to accomplish? We know chivalry is dead, but has it been replaced by boorishness? Another female, Bobby Gibb, wasn’t mauled, but after she had run the 26 miles and 385 yards she was insulted by officials who refused to allow her across the finish line. Too, she was in better shape than Cloney, Semple or the state cops, and she got away, continuing to the finish. Fortunately Miss Switzer was protected by gentlemanly fellow competitors in the race.

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