Two miles into the 1967 race, a race official noticed her and attempted to kick her off the course.
50 years ago, Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to officially enter the Boston Marathon.
Today at age 70, she's running for her foundation, 261 Fearless. It is also about those who give this race its soul.
Even Boston Police Commissioner William Evans was back on the course this year for the first time since the bombings in 2013.
Switzer ran the marathon wearing the number 261, the same number male participants had tried to rip off her clothing in 1967.
Her goal is for her story to inspire women of all ages to be active, strong and confident in themselves, she said. She realized at Heartbreak Hill that she wanted to create more opportunities like this for women.
"How many times do you get the chance to do something 50 years later?"
Kiplagat, 37, was greeted by her children and family members as she crossed the line.
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Nothing in the rule book prohibited women from running the Boston Marathon.
Edna Kiplagat, the victor of the 2017 Boston Marathon, is seen here second from left at the race's six-mile mark. It sounds amusing now, but there were serious rules barring women from sports, especially running races.
Hasay's teammates with the Nike Oregon Project, Galen Rupp and Suguru Osako, finished second and third in the men's race at the Boston Marathon.
Spitzer said her return to the race in 2017 was a way to, "celebrate the fact, first of all, that I can run - that I'm capable of doing it, amazingly enough, and I'm very, very grateful for that".
"If I get near the finish line, and I look over there and I see somebody who's got gray hair, and is maybe in my age group, I am just going to kick a little butt", she said. She endured a number of injuries and setbacks and time away from her 6-year-old daughter while training, but Brezniak says running for the kids makes it all worth it.
Switzer said the transformation of her experience of the marathon mimicked the social revolution that had taken place in women's running and women's sport in general.
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