The Meaning of Running

By the way, the performances of running might not be affected after giving birth to a child. Dr. El Deli said recently that, many examples proved that after pregnancy and childbirth, women still ran as well as ever. After having a child, some of the most excellent track and field athletes won the Olympic champions. The only possibility circumstance was that the track and field athletes might not get the enough training after they had children, so their results fell as a result of the lack of preparation. Running was still beneficial to the women who had already passed the childbearing age. Please recall the situation of Euler Weaver whose age was already over eighty in the chapter four. On the basis of the report of the University of Wisconsin, the case of the so-called spontaneous osteoporosis would also be changed through exercise. The so-called spontaneous osteoporosis was that the older person's bones became loose due to the decrease of calcium.
Yet, the most obvious change of women that described in the chapter two-the psychological change-was the same as the change of men. Nina Cusick said that, this was the first time she had faith in herself. She knew that she had made herself do according to her refutation. Running was her own thing and she was not forced to run by no one. She knew that she was able to do what she wanted to do because of her efforts. It was definite.
One woman told me that running had great benefits to her in the period of her divorce. She said that though she suffered from great emotional trauma, she had ran better and better. She did not know how could this be. She was extremely uncomfortable inside, she thought she might suffer from this sooner or later. She also participated in a marathon four days before she divorced. She maintains running relied on eating sedatives and she did not know how she ran down. But, she knew that running had benefits to her body and the result would have benefits to the mood. During that time, running was very helpful to her. So she was healthy after that time had passed.
Speak in general, the difference of running between men and women was that it was only the beginning for women to participate in these sports. Over ten years ago, people had thought that women did not run in the marathon. Women who applied for the marathon were rejected because they did not run so far. However, Robert in Winchester, Massachusetts, in 1966, broke through the restricted area of Boston Marathon. She hid in the bushes before the gun shot. When she listen to the sounds of the gun, she joined in the athletes without others' paying attention to her and finished the race. After a year, Kathy became the first women who had the official number to participate in the marathon (see the chapter 18th). Women finally were allowed to take part in the game until 1972.
The records of women were better year after year and it also reflected the changes in attitude. The record of 1967 was three hours and seven minutes and in 1975, it was two hours and thirty-eight minutes, better than most of men who ran this race.