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Sharman J, , 'Clinicians prescribing exercise: is air pollution a hazard? Give feedback about this page. Was this page helpful? When U. Kastor was inspired to start running, and went on to become the U. The fact that we can not only compete, but compete with equal pay and still have our shoe sponsors support us through pregnancies and motherhood—those are really big, important steps in sport.

I feel grateful and thank those women personally because of what they fought for. But New Yorkers turned out in full force to cheer on the runners as the city returned to some semblance of normalcy. New Yorkers really came together to uplift and inspire one another.

Kastor finished as the top U. The New York City Marathon is still extraordinary. On Nov. Less than a year later, she became a marathon winner. McColgan resumed a full training schedule 11 days after giving birth to her daughter, Eilish, in Dundee, Scotland. Nine months after that she won a gold medal in the 10, meters at the World Championships in Tokyo.

The sport has become a family affair for the McColgans. Eilish, now 30, is making her own mark in distance running. Now Eilish has her sights set on another goal: the same race her mother dominated three decades ago. That would be a really wonderful thing for me, because New York is my favorite place—and the New York Marathon is a special race.

But McColgan and her fellow elite runners still faced obstacles—sometimes literal ones. He kept trying to cut in front of us, because he knew the TV cameras in the moto were focused on us. He wanted to show off his sign. I remember the two of us getting quite angry at this guy. I was tempted to give him a big shove. Instead, she sprinted past him, pulled away with three miles to go and went on to finish more than three minutes faster than any other woman had run a marathon debut at the time.

It was amazing to run the streets of New York, and have people cheering you on. She says the race features one of its deepest fields ever. Kellyn Taylor and Stephanie Bruce are both moms who inspire so many people by being good at everything they do, from mom-ing to racing. There are so many good stories and strong competitors this year. In just her third marathon, Seidel won bronze at the Tokyo Games, finishing in and becoming only the third U. The New York field features 12 women runners with personal bests under , including Olympic gold medalist Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya and Olympic silver medalist Abdi Nageeye of the Netherlands.

The elites will have plenty of company among the rank-and-file runners. The New York City Marathon featured 22, female finishers—the most ever. Among them: Caryn Kelly of Edina, Minn. I finished it in 34 minutes, which I was proud of, until it dropped my grade from an A to an A-. My freshman year of college, I'd drag myself to the indoor track because I felt like it was what I was supposed to do, because the other women in my dorm did. And all this time, I told myself and every gym teacher I ever had that I sucked at running and always would.

I now realize that this protected me from ever feeling like I'd fail at it. My expectations were set at zero, because I didn't believe that I could meet even the most basic goal. After all, I "just wasn't a runner. It started out when I realized that running was a convenient workout to do while traveling abroad. All I needed were sneakers, and it was a great way to explore new cities while getting in some exercise. Even when I wasn't traveling, I continued to run two or three miles here and there when I didn't have time to make it to a gym and back for a full workout.

I realized I liked running when I was doing it my way—as in, no gym teacher telling me to "pick up the pace. Because I knew runners. These were people who signed up for 10Ks and half-marathons. People who followed training schedules and tracked their mileage on Garmin watches. People who posted photos of race bibs on Instagram. Even people who ran the same amount as me but looked more like what I thought runners were supposed to look like—women who were leaner than me, had more defined calf muscles, and wore more running-specific gear.

As far as I was concerned, I wasn't good enough at it, or committed enough. About a year ago, I challenged myself to focus on only doing workouts that I actually enjoyed.

Soon into my experiment, I was surprised to find myself gravitating toward short, to minute runs.