First Ladies of Running: 22 Inspiring Profiles of the Rebels, Rule Breakers, and Visionaries Who Changed the Sport Forever by Amby Burfoot

First Ladies of Running: 22 Inspiring Profiles of the Rebels, Rule Breakers, and Visionaries Who Changed the Sport Forever

Amby Burfoot

288 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history sports informative inspiring medium-paced
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Today, millions of women and girls around the world enjoy running and entering races. It wasn’t always so:* In 1961, when Julia Chase edged to the start of a Connecticut 5-miler, officials tried to push her off the road. * At the 1966 Boston Marat...

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