Running & Walking for Women Over 40 by Katherine Switzer

Running & Walking for Women Over 40 by Katherine Switzer

Running and Walking for Women Over 40 provides a consistent program of running or walking, and the least expensive road to overall fitness and well-being for women and men at any age.

For women over forty it can be the key to the most fulfilling years life has in store.

Katherine Switzer, a pioneer in women's fitness since 1967, when she became the first woman to officially enter the Boston Marathon, is once again blazing a trail with the very first running and walking program designed specifically for women over forty. Now every woman can benefit from Katherine's highly personal, motivational, and step-by-step advice.

"For women beginning fitness programs at age forty, fifty, and beyond, the results can be nothing short of dramatic. For the first time they are reaching the body weight and physical conditioning they've always dreamed of. Women who have been reasonably active all their lives can also find a new and exciting road of fitness ahead of them after age forty. Some even find themselves outrunning women half their age!" --Katherine Switzer

For almost 40 years, Kathrine Switzer, one of sports' greatest legends, has been a leading authority on running and women's health. She is best known for paving the way for women's participation in marathons, beginning with her historic run in the formerly all-male Boston Marathon in 1967. She went on to become a world-ranked athlete and the 1974 New York Marathon winner. Switzer is an Emmy-winning television commentator who has covered a long list of major sporting events, including marathons in Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, and Los Angeles, as well as the Olympic and Goodwill Games. Almost 100,000 copies of her first book, Jogging and Walking for Women Over 40, have been sold. She currently resides in New Paltz, New York.