Or Kenneth Jones, lining up to start Sunday’s London Marathon. But tell that to 83-year-old Katherine Beiers, who finished the Boston Marathon on Monday, writes Kate Carter. Road racing might seem like a young person’s game. “But we have a long way to go.” The rise of the older runner “We have come a light year, really,” she said. Of her legacy, Switzer said it came as no surprise that women continued to embrace the “sense of empowerment” that came from running. She founded the women’s running club 261 Fearless, named after her 1967 Boston Marathon number. Switzer has entered more than 30 marathons, winning in New York in 1974 in 3:07:29, and has worked as a television commentator. Now 58% of marathon runners in the US are women. Women were officially allowed to enter the Boston Marathon five years later in 1972, and to compete in the Olympics at the distance in 1984. Switzer said the transformation of her experience of the marathon mimicked the social revolution that had taken place in women’s running and women’s sport in general.
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