Rulebreakers and Ghost Runners
The British women who asserted their right to run
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 13 August 2026
- ISBN 9781399425353
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 232x158x32 mm
- Weight 486 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
The incredible untold stories of the British women who broke the rules and paved the way for female runners today.
MoreLong description:
The incredible untold stories of the British women who broke the rules and pioneered female running today
Did you know that until April 1975 women in the UK were banned from marathons and all races longer than four miles? Back in the 1960s, women started to break the rules and 'crash' men's road races, challenging discrimination and showing that they were perfectly capable of running marathons - or even further.
Sports historian Katie Holmes shares the untold stories of these female pioneers. From the early days of organised athletics in the 1920s, to the social change, feminism and jogging craze of the 1970s and the marathon boom of the early 1980s, these inspirational women broke the rules, broke records and broke barriers.
There's Violet Piercy who ran in a men's marathon in 1936, decades before it was allowed; Scottish athlete Dale Greig who ignored the rules to compete in the 1964 Isle of Wight marathon; and 'Queen of the Roads' Leslie Watson who successfully challenged the exclusion of women from Britain's most famous ultramarathon.
This is a fascinating, inspiring account of how British women asserted their right to run long distance and changed the landscape of running for good.
Table of Contents:
Roll of honour
Introduction
1. The starting line
2. Violet Piercy - London to Windsor in record time (for a lady)
3. Dale Greig - much more than a footnote
4. Out on their own
5. Making it official
6. Women go the distance
7. Jogging hits Britain
8. Leslie Watson - Queen of the Roads
9. The marathon boom
The debt we owe
Acknowledgements
References
