SPECIAL: Tom will run the BOSTON MARATHON April 18 to generate awareness for Barb’s Beer and help bring the “Racing to the Cure” campaign to Boston and the east coast off the program’s success in the NW. Tom will donate all proceeds from his share to the Barb’s Beer Foundation. Look for an updated edition of “Just Call Me Jock” in time for the 2017 Boston Marathon. “I made Kathy famous and myself infamous,” said Jock, who became great friends with Kathy once the rules were changed by 1972. Jock believed he was just “protecting the rules,” but photos of Jock getting pitched into a ditch with a shoulder block from Kathy’s boyfriend ran page one around the world – and Jock’s chasing Kathy that day effectively helped usher in women’s running in America. The 2017 Boston Marathon will mark the 50th anniversary of Jock chasing Katherine Switzer down the road in the 1967 marathon to “retrieve” the Boston Marathon number he gave her by mistake, he said, after Katherine applied as “K.” Switzer. The book offers a history of the Boston Marathon as seen through the eyes of Jock Semple, legendary Boston Marathon figure (Jock ran his first Boston in 1929 and later served as co-director into the 1970s.) The images of Semple attacking the lone woman on the course went global, exposing the ugly sexism in sport and turning Switzer into an equality icon for female athletes.The book “Just Call Me Jock” (1982) occupies a spot in the trophy case at Boston Athletic Association headquarters in Boston. The marathon began well, but about five kilometres in, race manager Jock Semple famously leapt off a media bus monitoring the runners and lunged at Switzer, trying to rip the bib number 261 off her chest, and push her off the course. While women were technically not allowed to enter, she had entered under her initials KV Switzer, but did not try to hide the fact that she was a woman: she wore lipstick and earrings. It was snowing in April 1967 when Switzer lined up with her coach and then-boyfriend to start the Boston Marathon. Back then, women were considered physically incapable of running 42 kilometres and were therefore not eligible to enter the marathon. During training, her coach would entertain her with tales of running the Boston Marathon-one of the world’s most famous and prestigious long-distance races in the world. Switzer was a 20-year-old journalism student in 1967 and the first woman to join her university track and field running team. When Kathrine Switzer set out to run her first marathon she didn’t mean to start a revolution, she simply wanted to prove the boys wrong. Now, 50 years later, she’s still a force of empowerment.
Running pioneer KATHRINE SWITZER was the first woman to complete a marathon, despite being told women weren’t capable of competing. Switzer, la maratoniana que desafió al machismo en el año 1967 corriendo un maratón prohibido para las. En la imagen, luce el dorsal que llevó en el Maratón de Boston. It Started At The Finish Line VOGUE India | June 2018 Kathrine Switzer fue la primera mujer que corrió un maratón de forma oficial con dorsal, aunque estaba prohibido en la época.
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