# First Ladies of Running

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- Book: [First Ladies of Running](https://www.bookquiver.com/amby-burfoot/first-ladies-of-running) ([First Ladies of Running.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/amby-burfoot/first-ladies-of-running.md))
- Authors: [Amby Burfoot](https://www.bookquiver.com/amby-burfoot), [Shalane Flanagan](https://www.bookquiver.com/shalane-flanagan)
- Publisher: rodale_books
- ISBN: 978-16-0961-564-2
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2016-04-05
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Today, millions of women and girls around the world enjoy running and entering races. It wasn’t always so: * In 1961, when Julia Chase edged to the start of a Connecticut 5-miler, officials tried...