Gloria Ratti Boston Marathon - The Women's Running Trailblazer You've Never Heard Of
Courtesy B.A.A. Running often gives opportunity to eccentric talents. America’s great marathons have been shaped by some unlikely movers and shakers—an image-conscious Romanian-born garment industry dealer; a quietly intellectual African-American grandson of slaves; a short-fused Scot from working-class Glasgow; a female CIA operative who never ran a step. Fred Lebow, Ted Corbitt, Jock Semple, and Gloria Ratti seem like unlikely founders, yet each was key in making the New York City and Boston Marathons the triumphant events we now know. The only one still with us is Ratti, now 89, and ...
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