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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

1978 Grete Waitz Norway 2:32:30 Course record 1979 Grete Waitz Norway 2:27:33 Course record, 2nd victory 1980 Grete Waitz Norway 2:25:42 Course record, 3rd victory 1981 Allison Roe New Zealand 2:25:29 ...

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 ...

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 ...