Welcome to the Runners Connect, Run to the Top Podcast, where it's all about learning from the best minds in the sport

so you can train smarter, stay healthy, and run faster now.

And now your host, Tina Muir.

Hello, this is Tina Muir and I'd like to welcome you to another episode of the

Ranners Connect Run to the Top podcast. One of my favorite quotes is by Neil Donald Walsh. Life begins at the end of your

comfort zone. Even though this quote is quite well known, we often tell ourselves that we are great at taking those

leaps of faith. I often wonder, are we really? One person who has embraced this to the

fullest is my guest today. She is one of the figureheads of women's running and a

photo of her in the Boston Marathon was voted one of the 100 photos that

changed the world. Pretty impressive. Not only did she change it that day in Boston in

1967 but she has kept that momentum going and is still encouraging it. She's

breaking down those barriers, pushing those boundaries further and further away,

and making sure the women of the future have as much opportunity as men.

My guest today is Catherine Switzer.

Catherine was inducted into the US. My guest today is Catherine Switzer.

Catherine was inducted into the USA National Women's Hall of Fame.

She was the first class of inductees into the National Distance Running Hall of Fame,

the first woman to officially enter the Boston Marathon,

and she has a personal best of 251-33 in the marathon in 1975.

She also won the New York City Marathon in 1975. She also won the New York City marathon in 1974. She is an Emmy Award winning TV commentator and an author of the book Marathon Woman, which I will put a link to in the show notes.

After Catherine shares her monumental story behind those iconic photos from her Boston

Marathon race, we are going to talk about why running leads to empowerment and when that empowerment

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