Marathon & Beyond Archive · Articles by
Kathrine Switzer
28 articles — The first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon (1967), Switzer wrote her "On the Road With Kathrine Switzer" column for Marathon & Beyond from 1997 onward. Founder of the Avon International Running Circuit and tireless advocate for women in distance running.
· 2013
The 10 Most Important Female Marathoners in History
Editor's note: Unlike our assignments to the other authors in this section, M&B gave author Kathrine Switzer the assignment to profile nine of the most important…
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· 2000
On the Road With Kathrine Switzer: November/December 2000
Race Directors! Tired of T-Shirts? Try Windshirts! V Made of 100% Supplex—a lightweight, fast-drying, wind-blocking fabric that’s cottony soft to the touch. V Great for Event…
· 2001
On The Road With Joe LeMay
MOVING UP TO ULTRAS Lately, with all the physical ailments I've been suffering, thanks largely to about 12 years of 100-plus-mile weeks, I've been doing a…
· 2001
On The Road With Joe LeMay
FORCED LAYOFFS Whatever your age, when you were younger, you had this picture of how your life might turn out, and you're never even close. I…
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· 1997
On the Road with Kathrine Switzer
OF MARCH, NEXT YEAR, THE RACE TURNS TWENTY-FIVE, AND THE ORGANIZERS HAVE ALREADY BEGUN PLANNING A GRAND CELEBRATION. BUT FIRST, THEY HAVE TO GET THROUGH THIS…
· 1997
On THE Road with Kathrine Switzer
AGING NEW ZEALAND, December—The bottle of wine jumped right off the shelf and into my hands. I couldn't believe the label—"Harrier Rise." The wine was a…
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…
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…
Vol. 6, No. 5 · 2002
Chicago Turns 25
THE MARATHON had reached its moment of truth. The lakefront course turned northward and I could see the lead runner, a Canadian, silhouetted against the skyscrapers…
Vol. 6, No. 2 · 2002
On The Road With Joe LeMay
FIRED—AGAIN It's tough to sit down and write this, my last column for Marathon & Beyond, since it is my last source of income that I…
Vol. 6, No. 1 · 2002
Show Me the Money
THE HISTORY of prize money in road racing is a complex tale filled with tragedy, politics, threats, money, sex, quid pro quos, the International Olympic Committee,…
Vol. 5, No. 6 · 2001
The Running Man
Sunday, December 10, 2000, Tampa, Florida—It's early on the morning of the inaugural running of the Hops Marathon by Tampa Bay, and Jerry Dunn is somewhat…
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Vol. 5, No. 2 · 2001
On the Road with Joe LeMay
One hundred miles is another good standard, as it's a distance somewhat commonly run. Over a dozen 100-mile trail races can be found in North America,…
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Vol. 5, No. 1 · 2001
On the Road With Kathrine Switzer: January/February 2001
On THE Road WITH Scott Douglas WHAT IF THEY HELD AN OLYMPICS AND NOBODY WATCHED? As I write, the Olympics have been over for a week.…
Vol. 4, No. 4 · 2000
On the Road with Scott Douglas
RUNNERS: YEAH, WE'RE ALIKE When he was running for president in 1988, Richard Gephardt would tell this story: The Air Force had these bases up in…
Vol. 4, No. 3 · 2000
On the Road with Scott Douglas
BOOKING A TRIP TO MARATHONING'S PAST Here's how the last book on marathoning I read puts it: "Marathon runners feel that the marathon is a microcosm…
Vol. 3, No. 4 · 1999
On the Road with Scott Douglas
AN UNCHARITABLE VIEW "I have little doubt that such dumbing down will be successful if our aim is to maximize the total population count at our…
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Vol. 3, No. 3 · 1999
On the Road With Kathrine Switzer: May/June 1999
On THE Road WITH Scott JUST GETTING GOING Was I surprised to be offered the “On the Road” column in Marathon & Beyond? You could say…
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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…
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…
Vol. 2, No. 5 · 1998
On the Road with Roger Robinson
BACKSTAGE AT BOSTON BOSTON, Friday, April 17th, 9:00 A.M.—"The marathon? It's great. I love it. All kindsa people run it. I've got friends who have run…
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Vol. 2, No. 3 · 1998
On the Road with Roger Robinson
They call Disney's the most magical start you've ever seen, and from my privileged position as a roaming journalist with a disregard for barricades, it's colorful…
Vol. 2, No. 2 · 1998
On The Road With Roger Robinson
LONDON, October—Often it's when you travel that you feel most privileged to be a runner. The running tourist is never just one of the packaged hordes…
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…
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