SPECIAL: Tom will run the BOSTON MARATHON April 18 to generate awareness for Barb’s Beer and help bring the “Racing to the Cure” campaign to Boston and the east coast off the program’s success in the NW. Tom will donate all proceeds from his share to the Barb’s Beer Foundation. This may seem completely harmless to you, however, when she takes the start of the legendary Boston Marathon, the event is closed to women. Look for an updated edition of “Just Call Me Jock” in time for the 2017 Boston Marathon. We are in 1967 and the young American Kathrine Switzer is 20 years old. “I made Kathy famous and myself infamous,” said Jock, who became great friends with Kathy once the rules were changed by 1972. Jock believed he was just “protecting the rules,” but photos of Jock getting pitched into a ditch with a shoulder block from Kathy’s boyfriend ran page one around the world – and Jock’s chasing Kathy that day effectively helped usher in women’s running in America.
The 2017 Boston Marathon will mark the 50th anniversary of Jock chasing Katherine Switzer down the road in the 1967 marathon to “retrieve” the Boston Marathon number he gave her by mistake, he said, after Katherine applied as “K.” Switzer. Jeff Johnson That day, Switzer went from a 20-year-old runner to a feminist icon, becoming the first woman to officially finish the Boston Marathon, with a time of 4 hours and 20 minutes. The book offers a history of the Boston Marathon as seen through the eyes of Jock Semple, legendary Boston Marathon figure (Jock ran his first Boston in 1929 and later served as co-director into the 1970s.) And Switzer went on to finish the race in 4. Her boyfriend, a former all-American football player, shoved him off. The book “Just Call Me Jock” (1982) occupies a spot in the trophy case at Boston Athletic Association headquarters in Boston. At 1.5 miles, race director Jock Semple tried to pull Switzer off the course.
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