Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women

Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women

Award-winning sports journalist Maggie Mertens tells the propulsive, edge-of-your-seat story of how women broke into competitive running over the last century, getting faster and fiercer with every ra…

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