"All the way along the route, people had heard my story, saw my bib, and they were holding signs up that read "261 Fearless" and 'Go, Kathrine!' They were screaming and going insane". It was unbelievable, especially the little girls who were there with their moms. "So people were afraid and they just went about their lives that way and restricted themselves".
Switzer finished the race in four hours and twenty minutes. She said it has always been her dream to return to the streets of Boston after making history there in 1967.
"No dame ever ran the Boston Marathon!" coach Arnie Briggs told her, according to her memoir, "Marathon Woman". "They started my journey 50 years ago with a very negative thing, to today, with everybody cheering me along the way".
Switzer used her influence to campaign to get women into the Boston Marathon by 1972.
Before the race, Hasay believed she was in 2:25 shape. Fellow Swiss Manuela Schar shattered the women's mark by more than five minutes, winning in 1:28:17. She was able to break free of his grasp, and her boyfriend shoved him to the ground.
Switzer managed to get away from Semple, who died in 1988, and completed the race, but the scene was immortalized in a photo. "Unless the pace feels too unrealistic I'll just try to get in and race with these guys".
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"This is literally the best day of my life". As it turned out, it was for better.
Switzer wore the familiar bib No. 261 on Monday, the same number she wore in 1967.
Switzer was the first woman to compete in the all-male race with a number, a year after Bobbi Gibb jumped out of the bushes in Hopkinton and was the first female finisher. Some of its members will join Switzer for her victory lap on Monday, wearing the 261 bib to raise money for charity. After she crossed the finish line, the Boston Athletic Association retired her bib number.
After finishing the race, she said, she wanted a "cup of coffee and a piece of chocolate".
Keflezighi, 41, said he plans to enter the New York Marathon, which he won in 2009, one last time in the fall before retiring. For her, that strength was on display down to the smallest detail. This is my mom's engagement ring; I wear it on my left hand. At 70, my legs are not gorgeous like they were when I was 28.
Austin Prario of Burrillville said it's a moment he never thought would come.
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