By the way, the performances of running might not be affected after giving birth to a child. Dr. El Deli said recently that, there were many examples that women who were pregnancy and childbirth also ran as well as before. After having a child, some of the most excellent track and field athletes won the Olympic champions. The only possibility situation was that after the athletes had children and they might not get proper training, so their performances would decline due to the lack of preparation. Running was also helpful to the women who had already passed the childbearing age. Please recall the situation of Euler Weaver whose age was already over eighty in the chapter four. According to a study of the University of Wisconsin, the case of the so-called spontaneous osteoporosis would also be changed through exercise. The so-called spontaneous osteoporosis referred to the bones of the elderly people became loose as a result of the decrease of calcium.
However, the most obvious change of women that described in the chapter two-the psychological change-was the same as the change of men. Nina Cusick explained that, this was the first time she had faith in herself. She knew that she had already made herself do in accordance with the provisions of herself. Running was her own thing and she was not forced to run by no one. She realized that the reason why I could do what I wanted to do was due to the great efforts I made. It was clear.
A woman talked her divorce with me and she said that running gave her much help in that period. She said that although she was under great emotional trauma, she had run better and better. She did not understand how it comes to this. Her heart was so sad that she believed that she would suffer from this sooner or later. Before four days of her divorce, she also took part in a marathon. She kept running depended on eating sedatives and she did not know how she ran down. But, she knew that running was good for her body and the result would be good for sentiment. During that time, running was very helpful to her. So she was healthy after that time had passed.
Generally speaking, compared with men, the difference of running was that women just began to take part in these sports. Women were thought not to run in the marathon over a decade ago. Women who applied for the marathon were rejected because they did not run so far. Yet, in 1966, Robert in Winchester, Massachusetts, finally broke through the forbidden zone. She hid in the bushes before the gun shot. When she listen to the sounds of the gun, she joined in the athletes without others' paying attention to her and finished the race. A year later, Kathy became the first women who wore the formal number took part in the marathon (see the chapter 18th). Women finally were allowed to take part in the game until 1972.
The records of women were better year after year and it also reflected the changes in attitude. The record in 1967 was three hours and seven minutes, then in 1975 it was two hours and thirty-eight minutes which was better than most of men that ran in the race.