Running on empty. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Jason Horton and this is Ghost Town.

I will be very sad for them that they're disqualifying me because when I run in the next race and they see

what I can really do they're going to be very upset about it. On April 21, 1980, Rosie Ruiz won

the Boston Marathon's female category at two hours, 31 minutes and 56 seconds. It was the fastest

female time in Boston Marathon history and the third fastest female time in any marathon. The

only problem? Rosie Ruiz didn't actually run the Boston Marathon. Ruiz an administrative assistant

living in New York City, qualified for the 84th Boston Marathon with her time of two hours,

56 minutes and 29 seconds at the 1979 New York City Marathon placing 11th for women overall.

Wow, impressive. It is truly. She was a relative unknown in the running world and her huge win

made those in the community suspicious. One glaring reason was the 25-minute improvement

over her New York City marathon time, which was already somewhat record breaking for granted,

the internet did not exist, but communities were still communities, records were still kept,

and this person who really had no history in running marathon, I've been running marathons for

years and I've worked myself to a point where I could achieve this. It's just like she just did

the New York City and then the Boston. And qualified for Boston via the New York City one,

you need to kind of a gateway in there. Yeah, Boston Marathon is one of the most elite

marathons in the United States, definitely if not the world, and also has been known.

In my opinion, it's like being very elitist and very gatekeepery in terms of who is able to

participate. So this would be a giant thing. According to race photos, Ruiz didn't appear in any

of them until the very end when she's crossing the finish line. Barely sweating, her hair was

perfectly styled and her face was hardly flushed over 26 miles. I used to run track and cross

country and I have marathon. Once you did have marathon, I do. I'm very good and very fast,

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