Connect with Kathrine Switzer’s Fearless261 campaign: “A global community of women, be she a walker, jogger, or runner who have found strength, power and fearlessness from putting one foot in front of the other.” Overcome your doubts, your fears, your adversity, your roadblocks, your perceived existence in isolated struggle…Īnd become fearless. When she first ran Boston, it took her more than four hours. She won the New York City Marathon in 1974 and ran her personal best in Boston, 2:51:33, finishing second, in 1975.

Today, April 17, 2017, Switzer will run in the Boston Marathon. With the help of her coach, her boyfriend, and a friend from the men’s cross country team at SU (Switzer trained with the team) Switzer was able to continue running and protect her bib from being ripped away. Two miles into the race, an angry race director assaulted Switzer and tried to prevent her from participating. 50 years ago in 1967, Kathrine Switzer, a student at Syracuse University, showed up prepared to become the first woman to officially run all 26.2 miles of the Boston Marathon.

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