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B0CLQ4DMNC M4B@64 kbps English | ASIN: B0CLQ4DMNC | 2024 | 9 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 274 MB Author: Maggie Mertens Narrator: Maggie Mertens, Lauren Fleshman They ran without sports bras, which weren't invented until 1977, or disguised as men. They faced down doctors who put them on bed rest and newspaper reports that said women collapsed if they ran a mere eight hundred meters, just two laps around the track. Still today, women face relentless attention to their bodies: Is she too strong, too masculine? Is she even really a woman? Mertens transports us from that first boundary-breaking marathon in Greece, 1896, to the earliest "official" women's races of the twentieth century to today's most intense ultramarathons, in which women are setting all-out records, even against men. Better Faster Farther takes us inside the lives and the victories of the women who have redefined society's image of strength and power.