Free Download Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLQ4DMNC | 2024 | 9 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 274 MB
Author: Maggie Mertens
Narrator: Maggie Mertens, Lauren Fleshman
More than a century ago, a woman ran in the very first modern Olympic marathon. She just did it without permission. Award-winning journalist Maggie Mertens uncovers the story of how women broke into competitive running and how they are getting faster and fiercer every day-and changing our understanding of what is possible as they go. Despite women proving their abilities on the track time and again, men in the medical establishment, media, and athletic associations have fought to keep women (or at least white women) fragile-and sometimes literally tried to push them out of the race (see Kathrine Switzer, Boston Marathon, 1967). Yet before there were running shoes for women, they ran barefoot or in nursing shoes.
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