When Grete Waitz won her first New York marathon in 1978, I was three years out of law school and finishing my first year as a law professor at Temple Law School. Having been unsuccessful at high ...

This is Diana Nyad for KCRW, and this is The Score. There was a familiar face to New Yorkers around town during the 36th edition of the New York City Marathon last Sunday. The darling of the race's ...

Grete Waitz, whose nine New York City Marathon victories made her one of the dominant runners of the 1980s and helped destroy the notion that women were too delicate to race such long distances, died ...

Grete Waitz, the modest Norwegian schoolteacher who became an icon by winning the New York City Marathon nine times, died in Oslo Tuesday after a six-year battle with cancer. She was 57. "Grete did as ...

After the late running legend Grete Waitz attempted her first marathon in New York in 1978, she found it so grueling that she threw her shoes at her husband, Jack, who was the one who suggested she ...

Willey (our boss here at RW) writes, "Grete Waitz always hated being famous, so when I introduced myself at our Heroes of Running awards in New York City in 2005, it wasn't the world-beating First ...

Author and cross-country coach Martin Dugard continues to churn out new books. His newest book is "The Long Run," which discusses the 1970s running boom.

Grete Waitz didn't even know she was running her first marathon until a few days before she stepped to the starting line at the 1978 New York City Marathon. The diminutive Norwegian runner, who held ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian Grete Waitz, a pioneer of women's marathon running and former world record holder, has died at the age of 57 after a long battle with cancer. "One of the brightest flames of ...