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BILL ROGERS, a true running legend, is a 4 time Boston Marathon and 4 time New York City Marathon winner and runs about 25 races per year. He is the current spokesperson for Running Times Magazine and the Bill Rodgers Running Centre in Boston, MA. Bill will be available for book signing during the pasta dinner/runner's workshop.
KATHRINE SWITZER has been an authority on running and women’s sports for over thirty years. She is best known for pioneering the official entrance of women into the marathon, beginning in the late 1960s. Through the Avon Running program, she organized events for over one million women in twenty-seven countries, which was vital to securing the women’s marathon event in the Olympics. She has finished thirty-five marathons, won the 1974 New York City Marathon and still runs six miles a day. An Emmy Award winning TV commentator, Switzer has covered many major running events including the Olympics, the Goodwill and Commonwealth Games and almost all televised editions of the Boston, New York and Los Angeles Marathons, as well as hundreds of local races around the world. The author of Running and Walking for Women Over 40, she will publish an autobiography in 2007. Kathrine Switzer has been married to co-author of 26.2: Marathon Stories Roger Robinson for eighteen years.
Limited Toronto Marathon edition of 26.2: Marathon Stories will be available for purchase at the Toronto Marathon Expo and Carbo Dinner. Kathrine Switzer and Roger Robinson will be available for book signing during the expo and at the carbo dinner.
For more information, visit www.TorontoMarathon.com.
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