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, 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 ...

OSLO, Norway — Grete Waitz had never run a marathon before the New York City race in October 1978. After it, her name and New York would be forever linked. The lean Norwegian middle-distance runner, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A year ago, the 39th New York Mini 10K seemed like a celebration of new life — two exciting new Kenyan prodigies, Linet Masai and Emily Chebet, headed the field in their first appearances on the roads ...

OSLO, Norway - Grete Waitz had never run a marathon before the New York City race in October 1978. After it, her name and New York would be forever linked. The lean Norwegian middle-distance runner, ...