Kathrine Switzer

This one’s a bit more recent but an important event in any case, also this girl’s got a huge pair of ovaries and did what she fucking wanted. I’ve always got time for people like this. The Name is Kathrine Switzer, born in Germany 1947. You may not have heard of this runner as she wasn’t the fastest footed female but that’s probably because having a lot of guts weighs you down. She was the daughter of a US army Major and studied for a Bachelors and Masters in journalism at Virginia University, but more integral to this story she was a fan of running. While indulging in her sport, she expressed interest in running a marathon. Her trainer, who declared that it was “too long a run for a fragile woman”, unfortunately shot this down. Obviously this boiled her fucking blood and she went all “you can’t tell me what to fucking do” and started planning. She trained so hard her coach actually realised he was being a bellend and she could do it so supported her in the training. What made this particularly difficult was that the Boston marathon (the one she wished to do) did not allow women to participate at this time. But Kathrine was a sneaky bugger and slung in an application on the sly using just her initials (K.V.Switzer). The organizers were most likely too busy polishing their running shoes and buying short-shorts to realise and accidently assigned Kathrine a number, so she was fucking buzzing. So it all comes out as she turns up on the day, with a little more in the chest area than the other runners, and people are pretty freaked out. She doesn’t give a shit anyway and get’s on with it, she knew she would get shit done even if she had to crawl across the finish line. While she was running, one of events organisers (see picture) tried to grab her to stop her competing but luckily her boyfriend threw him the fuck off Hulk Hogan style. She ran the race and made a decent time. The organisation was suffering from a serious case of hurt ego and banned women from all races that men ran in. Switzer continued to campaign for women’s rights to run and five years later she prevailed. She went on to win the women’s first place in the New York City Marathon in 1974 with a time of 3:07:29. Everyone should take a page out of Kathrine’s running guide and when some dick-for-brains doubts you, fucking do it anyway.