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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/hal-interview-with-the-legendary-kathrine-kv-switzer-part-one/">HAL: Interview with the Legendary Kathrine (K.V.) Switzer (Part One)</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted July 23, 2007 at 12:10 PM by Bridget Sullivan</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Forty years ago, Boston Marathon official Jock Semple jumped off a press truck four miles into the 1967 Boston Marathon and yelled “get out of my race” as he tried to rip the #261 off of K.V. Switzer. Pictures of the confrontation ran in newspapers around the world, essentially changing women’s running forever. “K.V.” Swizter was 20-year-old Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to break the gender barrier and officially enter and complete the Boston Marathon. Called the “Susan B. Anthony of running” by fellow running great Joan Benoit Samuelson, Kathrine went on to win the 1974 NYC marathon, and she was influential in the creation of the first Avon International Marathon in Atlanta in 1978, which featured 20 of the world’s top female distance runners. In addition, she was a driving force and prime lobbyist behind the…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/hal-interview-with-the-legendary-kathrine-kv-switzer-part-one/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/hal-interview-with-the-legendary-kathrine-kv-switzer-part-one/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/hal-interview-with-the-legendary-kathrine-kv-switzer-part-one/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/hal-interview-with-the-legendary-kathrine-kv-switzer-part-one/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-motivation/">her-motivation</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/special-features/">special-features</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/interviews/">interviews</a><br /><br /> </P>