“Now women have training groups that I only had with men,” she said. They are no longer limiting themselves,” Switzer said, commenting on how the current women’s running scene is different from when she started running. “The biggest difference is that it is simply not unusual to see a woman running, and that women now know they really can do it. Women Marathoners Having a Breakout Moment Earlier this month, Chastain Film Capital announced that a film adaptation of Marathon Woman is in the works, set to release within the next five years. Switzer went on to become a fierce competitor and a champion for women’s rights in sports, which she recounts in her 2007 memoir, Marathon Woman (Carroll & Graf). A huge part of that progress has to do with Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to officially enter and run Boston in 1967. While equal gender representation in marathons has now become routine, races in the not-so-distant past looked vastly different.
Also, those fields were about the same size: 14,675 men completed the race, while 11,982 women finished. Both the men’s and women’s races ranged from world-class athletes to time-qualifier squeakers to charity runners. This past April, 26,657 runners crossed the 2019 Boston Marathon finish line.
Switzer, now 72, is best-known for becoming the first woman to officially register and run the Boston Marathon.Kathrine Switzer’s best-selling memoir, Marathon Woman, is set to be adapted into a film by Chastain Film Capital.
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