“I got in the habit of running, and I was up and out the door before I’d had a chance to think about it,” Latta explained. Still, it was over a decade later that she realized she had a running streak going, after reading about fellow streaker John Sutherland in the Wall Street Journal. Latta’s brother bought her first pair of running shoes, which she “wore until they disintegrated.” Next, she got a pair of New Balance running shoes, and her favorite routes became the mountain and woody areas near her home. After a few weeks, he was satisfied Latta had formed a habit. He kept checking on her, encouraging her to run on weekends, too. If you miss a day, then you won’t go back.'” I told the principal the next day and he said, ‘That’s good-run every day, don’t stop. “So I went by myself, and I ran 1.5 miles. “One day after school I proposed to my sons that we should go for a run, and neither of them thought that was a good idea,” Latta said. He later told her she should run instead. The principal of the school was a good marathon runner himself, and saw Latta out walking one day. In the 1970’s, not long after Kathrine Switzer’s famous appearance as the first woman in the Boston Marathon, Latta was a young elementary school librarian. RELATED: Coaches Weigh In: Should You Do A Running Streak? Latta, Mick and myself all had different paths in our unique running journey. I am the baby of the bunch at 49 years old, having begun my running streak as a 17-year-old, while a senior in high school. Virginia resident Judy Mick, 58, will tally 31 years in November. Lois Bastien of Florida, who is 79, has run everyday for 36.5 years, while 75-year-old Barbara Latta of North Carolina will notch 33 years in December. I have the third-longest streak for women in the U.S., with a streak defined as running at least one mile within each calendar day. Why so few women, and why run every day, anyway? The answers reflect a stark change in the way women in athletics were viewed not long ago, and the differences between why people ran then, and why they do now. The next female “streaker” will reach the quarter century mark in about a year, and then there is a two-year gap until the next woman does the same thing. Only four of us, including myself, have reached this three decade milestone. Within this exclusive club there is an even more elite group: women. I’ve been called crazy for running every day. And who knows? With my running streak hitting 32 years this December, people could be right.īut the thing is, there are others like me-62, in fact, who are listed on the United States Running Streak Association registry as running every day for 30 years or more. Team captain Fred Couples think for a bit.Īfter the Cup was over, Couples said he would not be back in 2015 as captain: "A three-peat is good enough for me."įor the U.S., it was its eighth win in 10 tries at this event.Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! ![]() The drama was not Ryder Cup-like as the team matches on Thursday and Friday offered much more excitement than anything on Saturday and Sunday.īut the end was briefly exciting as the International Team at least made U.S. "We gave ourselves a really nice lead going into the singles. "We really played well to give ourselves a nice lead." "It was a team effort this whole week," Woods told reporters, who went 4-1, giving him the best record of any player in the tournament. It was the third straight Presidents Cup that Woods won the cup-clinching match. team the 18 points they needed to win the Presidents Cup for the fifth straight time. Woods managed to beat Richard Sterne, 1 up, while he battled a bad back to give the U.S. The Presidents Cup ended Sunday with an American celebration after Tiger Woods earned the winning point. The woman had on only a thong and pasties. was looking for its fifth consecutive victory over the Internationals on Sunday at Muirfield Village Country Club, a nearly nude woman holding an American flag took off down the 18th hole. claimed victory.ĭuring the tournament, in which the U.S. A female streaker disrupted the final round of the Presidents Cup golf tournament after she ran down the 18th fairway before the U.S.
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