Although Bobbi Gibb was also in the race for the second straight year, one of the unofficial runners known as bandits, race director Jock Semple fumed at the sight of Switzer in an official bib and tried to pull her off the course.
Switzer was a 20-year-old student at Syracuse when she entered the men-only Boston Marathon in 1967, using her initials on the registration form. The number now stands for all of those things." “It’s beyond me it’s the number now," said Switzer, who ran the race on Monday along with 118 women and “seven intrepid men" who raised money for the charity that uses running to improve women’s lives around the world. “People have such an appreciation for what running has done for them and how it’s changed their lives," said Switzer, who named her 261 Fearless foundation after the bib number that was nearly torn from her back on the marathon course. Fans crowded the brief ceremony, hugging and posing afterwards for pictures with Switzer, a women’s running pioneer.
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