Katherine Switzer: ...that we all have much more ability than we think we do

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4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This is an incredibly motivating episode to listen to as you make your New Year's resolutions! Kathrine Switzer is one of the most iconic figures in running. She was the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon in 1967 and made history as she ran it again fifty years later in 2017 at the age of seventy! Kathrine was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame for creating a social revolution by empowering women around the world through running. In this episode, we discuss why and how she ran her first Boston Marathon, how it inspired the world to take women's running seriously, how to become a runner at any age (people in their nineties do marathons!), and how being an ordinary person who works harder than anyone else can give you the competitive edge over someone with natural talent. You can learn more about her at kathrineswitzer.com.

This episode originally aired in December 2018 and is part of our 'Best Of' series.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. We're very honored to have Catherine
0:18.6	Switzer as our guest on this episode.
0:24.0	Catherine is one of the most iconic figures in all of running.
0:29.7	She was the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon in 1967, and she was the women's winner of the New York City Marathon in 1974.
0:33.2	Catherine is the author of several books, including her autobiography, Marathon Woman, running the race to revolutionize women's sports.
0:40.7	Catherine was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame for creating a social revolution by empowering women around the world through running.
0:49.3	In 2015, Catherine launched her global non-profit 261 Fear fearless, which uses running as the means to empower
0:56.7	women to overcome life obstacles and embrace healthy living. Catherine, thank you so much for joining us.
1:03.1	Great. It's wonderful to be here, Jan and Laura, and I'm really excited about talking to you today.
1:08.0	Well, tell us why you first started running and how old you were when
1:11.7	you started. You know, I love telling the story. I was 12 years old and my dream was to be a high
1:17.8	school cheerleader at the time because I thought they were pretty and popular and that was kind of a
1:23.1	passport for success. Yeah. And it was my father who said, you don't, you don't want to cheer for other people.
1:28.4	You want people to cheer for you. And your school has something new. It's called a field hockey team.
1:33.5	You ought to go out and play and have people cheer for you. And I said, I don't know anything about that.
1:38.2	And he said, neither do I, but I know it involves running. And if you ran a mile a day, you'd be one of the best players. He was very motivational.
1:45.4	And so I started running this mile a day to make the field hockey team. And I did make the
1:50.2	team and I really was one of the best players. But the point is, it was the running I loved the
1:55.7	most, just going out by myself and running. And I remember that so distinctly because a little 12-year-old girl
2:01.7	growing up, you know, pre-fubescent, heading to high school, and feeling empowered and that I could do
2:08.4	anything was overwhelming. And very, very, very, very strong feelings. And I wanted to pass that
2:16.0	on to everybody I knew. But, and that's what I've devoted my life to doing.
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