#GAReads | Overlooked No More: Miki Gorman, Women’s Marathon Pioneer

“Overlooked No More: Miki Gorman, Women’s Marathon Pioneer”:

Miki Gorman was sitting alone at a corner table of a Magic Pan restaurant in Manhattan on Oct. 23, 1976, when her food arrived: not one, but two large crepes stuffed with mushroom and spinach souffle.

A couple sitting nearby gawked at her. Gorman, at 5 feet tall or so, weighed only 90 pounds, and the plates of food covered her table.

“I’m running the New York City Marathon tomorrow!” she told them. “And I’m going to win.”

And so she did, the first woman to cross the finish line the next day. Even more, she won again the following year. No other American woman would take the title for the next four decades.

Read Amisha Padnani’s full article at The New York Times here…