Featured Web Site: Running Past

Running Past is this week’s featured site. I discovered this site while looking for some interesting photos. Running Past features photos, articles and so much more about runners and races of past years.

Ever wonder what it was like to run the Boston Marathon back 1898? Well wonder no more, you can read about it over at Running Past.

Vintage photos page shows runners from 1861 to 1970. One of my favorites is Ellison “Tarzan” Brown, winnner of the Boston Marathon in both 1936 and 1939. He was photographed in full Indian headdress. Ellison was a Narragansett Indian.

In featured articles you can read about Roberta “Bobbi” Gibb, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon back in 1966. She ran without a number and finished in 3 hours 21 minutes. It was not until 1972 that the Boston Marathon allowed women to officially enter the race.

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