I never have a race strategy it’s very important to run your own race and not anybody else’s. What are some of your memories from that race?īENOIT SAMUELSON: I remember that first water stop and making the decision not to take water at that point. OUTSIDE: August 5 is the anniversary of your win at the ’84 Olympics. After capturing the running world's attention in 1979, Joan Benoit continues to build on her career in 1981. On the eve of the anniversary of her gold-medal-winning race, Benoit Samuelson took time to reflect on her Olympic marathon, what’s changed since then, overcoming injury, and the best way to eat healthy-making an exception, of course, for her favorite oatmeal chocolate chip cookies (recipe below-you know, in case you want to multitask). And if I dare say, I think they’re better at multitasking.” “I don’t know what to attribute that to, except I think women understand balance more than men. “The numbers speak for themselves,” Benoit Samuelson says. By 2013, 43 percent of marathon finishers were women (232,600 out of 541,000). Her big marathon victories, combined with her winning attitude, ignited a running boom among American women-a demographic that has continued to embrace the sport with more fervor and passion every year since.Īccording to, of the 180,000 marathon finishers in 1984, 34,200 (19 percent) of those were women. It allows me to prioritize what’s going on in my life it gives me time to breathe it gives me a sense of well-being.” In the summer of 1984, Joan Benoit Samuelson made history when she won the first women's marathon at the 1984 Games in L.A. “I found running very accessible and affordable. “I was living a dream,” says Benoit Samuelson, who had set a world’s best time at Boston the previous year. Coliseum and won the first women’s Olympic marathon with a time of 2:24:52. Thirty years ago, a 27-year-old Joan Benoit ran through a tunnel into the L.A.
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