#256: Conversation with Running Icon Kathrine Switzer
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2017
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Sarah and co-host Dimity delightedly welcome back to the pod Kathrine Switzer, the pioneer in women’s running best known as the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a registered runner with a bib number. On Monday, April 17, Kathrine will once again run the 26.2 miles from Hopkinton, MA, to Boston to commemorate the 50th anniversary of her historic feat. In this interview recorded in March, Kathrine recounts nearly being pulled off the race course in 1967, when the race director realized she was a female. She talks about how that captured-on-film incident—which she describes as “a radicalizing—and an inspiring—experience” —captured the public imagination. Kathrine and the mother runners talk about the “inherent stressfulness” of big marathons, and she reveals what her 26.2 training looks like now, at age 70, versus as a college student half a century ago. Kathrine talks about helping other women “find their fearless” through the global community she founded, 261 Fearless. And Kathrine talks about the...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shay. I am joined today by Dimmody McDell. |
| 0:16.0 | Dimmody McDowell. Say quick. |
| 0:18.0 | Like you're rolling out to say, like your mountain biking, you're going down a hill, just go with dimity. |
| 0:23.0 | It's so hard to correct people when they say my name wrong, I just go with it, right? |
| 0:29.0 | Oh, I know, I've been next to you when it happens and I always felt kind of like I was the one who would get indignant for you and just chime up and be like it's dimity. |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah, not dimity, dimity. |
| 0:42.0 | Lots of it. Anyway. Mity. Dimmittee, de mity, not de mighty. |
| 0:44.0 | Mighty, hahmm. |
| 0:45.0 | I like that, I'm not a Russian man. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm not to be treated. |
| 0:50.0 | No disrespect, but yes, you... |
| 0:52.0 | That's not, I am many things a Russian man is not one of them. |
| 0:55.0 | Yes, that is correct. |
| 0:57.0 | That is correct. |
| 0:58.0 | Yes. |
| 0:59.0 | So we are recording this actually on International Women's Day but it's not airing |
| 1:03.6 | until mid-April so some of this might be a tad bit outdated but we do have to talk |
| 1:07.7 | about one thing dimity which is that you are fresh off of a three-day long |
| 1:11.4 | volleyball tournament. |
| 1:13.2 | I am, but wait, we should back up because you did not play it. |
| 1:15.8 | You're not supposed to go to work on International Women's Day, so what are we doing here? |
| 1:19.7 | We're supposed to be, isn't that part of it? Just kidding. |
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