Hey Sister!

Did you know ... ?

- While women represented only about a quarter of marathon finishers in 1995, today they compose 40 percent of the field. And in shorter road races, including untimed fun runs, women outnumbered men last year.

- Women are a burgeoning presence on the marathon scene. More than 169,000 finished marathons in the United States in 2004, according to USA Track & Field's Road Running Information Center.

- The first Nike Women's Marathon was so popular that its organizers increased the number of entries this year to more than 15,000, from 9,000, and the event still was filled months in advance.

This and more in this great article on the women's running in they NYTimes

Good read with your morning java ;)

Thanks Cheryl for passing along!