It was forty years ago this week that a woman named Kathrine Switzer put on a baggy pair of sweat pants, an oversized sweat shirt, tied her long hair up under a cap and officially entered herself in the male-only Boston marathon as K.V. Switzer. 1967. The heart of the free-wheeling Bob Dylan. make-love-not-war, women's liberation '60's and yet women were considered too fragile to run the grueling marathon. Empirical tests over the last four decades have proven women to be not only capable of endurance events but even superior to men in certain aspects of pain tolerance and oxygen management...
