Taking different paths to the same goal, Bobbi Gibb and Kathrine Switzer outran Boston Marathon tradition and trampled the notion that women were too frail for a 26.2-mile race. Listen to the podcast on iTunes or listen to it on Stitcher if you have an Android device.One is a neuroscientist-turned-sculptor, the other an activist and organizer. Additionally, we will be giving away a signed copy of his book which you can find out more about at /promo. We finish the interview with some stories about the early days of New England road races in the 60’s and early 70’s. We also talk about the future of women’s running and how the Internet has greatly affected the high school girl’s running scene.
We talk about some of the early women running legends including Joan Benoit, Kathrine Switzer, and the first women to run Boston, Bobbi Gibb.Īmby also talks about an entertaining story he discovered when he was writing the book from Grace Butcher, a farm girl from Ohio.Īmby talks in depth on why he included Ophrah Winfrey in his book on the first ladies of running.
We like to open up questions on Twitter to our followers, and one question that Angela wanted us to ask was “What running myths would you like to get rid of once and for all?”Īmby Burfoot has recently released his sixth book, First Ladies of Running. We talk about training secrets, and just like the two coaches we interviewed in our previous podcasts, it seems to come down to hard and consistent work. Amby talks about the irony of us becoming a more obese society in the middle of a fitness revolution which we have gone through.īeing so plugged into the sport first as a winner of the Boston Marathon, then with the last 38 years at Runners World, Amby has had a front-row seat to the evolution of training.
Amby talks to us about why the mind is so important to our running as we get older.Īmby is now more involved and concerned with the overall general health of society these days. With all those miles he has had very few injuries. Amby has run over 110,000 miles in his career, which is equivalent to running around the equator more than four times. Former Boston Marathon Champ and longtime Runner’s World editor Amby Burfoot joined us for a great talk about his half-century in running and his new book, First Ladies of Running.Īmby got his start in running when he was a sophomore in high school.
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