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Women's Running

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Vol. 1, No. 3 · 1997 Trends in Elite-Level Marathon Performances THE PIONEERING exercise physiologist Archibald Hill concluded long ago (1924) that one could learn much about the limits of athletic performance by studying the results of… 22 min read Vol. 19, No. 4 · 2015 Twenty-Four Hours, Minute By Minute Saturday, September 20, 2014 6:25 a.m. “You mean they’re really going to run for 24 hours?” Reluctant Race Director Dan (RRD for short, because RRDD has… Dan Horvath · 20 min read M&B Vol. 19, No. 2 · 2015 Running Around The Menstrual Cycle The menstrual cycle, which occurs monthly from menarche (age 11-14) until menopause (age 45-50), is the defining physiological characteristic of females. The levels of the four… Jason R. Karp · 17 min read Vol. 19, No. 2 · 2015 Wreathed In Glory The crowning of an olive-branch wreath atop the winner’s head at the Boston Marathon is far from a cliché. There is a deep, soulful connection and… Paul Clerici · 24 min read Vol. 18, No. 5 · 2014 The Women’S Marathon How has it changed in the 30 years since its debut as an Olympic event? BY HOLLY ORTLUND, MS, AND DAVID MARTIN, PhD When the women’s… Holly Ortlund And David Martin · 11 min read M&B Vol. 18, No. 4 · 2014 Thom Gilligan: Marathon-Travel Man The Boston runner who invented destination-running tourism. BY ROGER ROBINSON AND KATHRINE SWITZER Thom Gilligan keeps his cool however boisterous the challenges of running travel. ▲… Roger Robinson And Kathrine Switzer · 13 min read Vol. 18, No. 2 · 2014 Covering Boston Imagine game coverage where TV commentators view only home plate or one goalie net, or one hoop in basketball, or one end zone in a football… Paul Clerici · 18 min read Vol. 18, No. 1 · 2014 Going Far, Part 9 Going Far Some genes take their time showing themselves. Part 9. BY JOE HENDERSON 36. The daughter SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, November 1973. Some stories are better… Joe Henderson · 23 min read Vol. 15, No. 6 · 2011 Gillian Adams Horovitz It’s a blustery and cold February afternoon. Down in the depths of Manhattan’s Chinatown, the sixth-graders from PS 1 are bundling up to walk down to… Gail Kislevitz · 16 min read Vol. 15, No. 3 · 2011 The Purple Runner, Part 5 The Purple Runner Solian and Warren get to know each other over a few drinks. Part 5. By Paul Christman Chapter 13 “W ell then, why… Paul Christman · 42 min read Vol. 15, No. 3 · 2011 Fred’s Final Lap A dream come true: Fred Lebow (running his only five-borough New York City Marathon) finishes “his” race with Grete Waitz in 1992. ▲ Fred Lebow and… Allan Steinfeld · 24 min read Vol. 14, No. 5 · 2010 Musings From Marathon The Marathon’s 2,500th Anniversary Musings From Marathon How the marathon ignited the women’s running revolution and in the process changed world thinking about women. by Kathrine… Kathrine Switzer · 12 min read Vol. 14, No. 4 · 2010 My Most Unforgettable Marathon (Vol. 14, No. 4) David Calderon, Jeff Pierce, and the author (left to right) stand at the overlook after the completion of the American River 50, less than two months… John David Fischer · 13 min read Vol. 13, No. 2 · 2009 Falling For Boston There is no place that I would rather be than Boston in April. Boston 2003 was to be my third consecutive Boston Marathon. I managed to… Sheri Davich · 8 min read Vol. 13, No. 2 · 2009 In Pursuit of Ghosts and Unicorns “It may be springtime in the Rockies, but it’s Marathon time out here…” —from a poem by Bertha Kelley, mother of Johnny “The Elder” Kelley Ah,… Ron Mccracken · 15 min read Vol. 10, No. 3 · 2006 Worlds Apart: Women We Love Two very different women runners, who live in wildly disparate places 10,000 miles apart, share the same dream. One is old enough to be the other’s… Kathrine Switzer · 8 min read M&B Vol. 9, No. 6 · 2005 Editorial: November/December 2005 Alone The loneliness of the long-distance runner. For a generation of runners, the title of Alan Sillitoe’s novel of juvenile rebellion described and defined the person,… Richard Benyo · 8 min read M&B Vol. 5, No. 5 · 2001 So it was doubly shocking after our recent trip to the Grandma’s Marathon to receive news that Christine White of Metamora, Illinois, had died ina small plane crash in Santa Fe County, New Mexico So it was doubly shocking after our recent trip to the Grandma’s Marathon to receive news that Christine White of Metamora, Illinois, had died ina small… Editorial Staff · 9 min read M&B Vol. 2, No. 6 · 1998 On the Road With Kathrine Switzer: November/December 1998 […] born, and although she can no longer be an elite competitor. She is admired for her history of creating opportunity for women; but she is… Kathrine Switzer · 5 min read Vol. 2, No. 6 · 1998 On The Road With Roger Robinson A WAVE OF WOMEN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, June 27, 1998—All over the green field were women in red. Meeting, mingling, laughing, leaping to the pulse of the… Kathrine Switzer · 9 min read Vol. 2, No. 1 · 1998 On the Road with Kathrine Switzer In one of life's more validating moments, I am asked back as program director, a position I had with the company from 1978 to 1985. The… Kathrine Switzer · 10 min read Vol. 1, No. 4 · 1997 On the Road with Kathrine Switzer THE MIRACLE OF THE UNLIKELY WASHINGTON, D.C., April— Twenty-five years ago this spring, I came down from New York City to visit my parents in Virginia.… Kathrine Switzer · 8 min read M&B Vol. 1, No. 4 · 1997 On the Mark: July/August 1997 RUNNING WITH MEN. I’m a 25-year-old woman whoruns 40 miles per week but is considering moving up to the marathon. My heroines, Grete Waitz, Joan Benoit… Editorial Staff · 5 min read Vol. 1, No. 3 · 1997 Bigger is Better FINDING THE PERFECT MARATHON WHOEVER COINED the tidy little axiom "the more, the merrier" must have recently run a megamarathon. In New York, London, Honolulu, Paris,… Sarah Lorge · 10 min read
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