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Earlier this month, Kathrine Switzer celebrated the 40th anniversary of her pioneering run of the 1967 Boston Marathon.

Switzer wore sweatpants, a loose-fitting sweatshirt and lipstick. And she entered the race with the name K. Switzer. Women weren't allowed to run the event in 1967, but Switzer entered anyway, one year after Roberta Gibb ran the event without a race number.

Forty years later, there are many all-women's running events and women have won many running events outright. In Sacramento this weekend, the capital city of California will have its first all-women's marathon.

Here's an article about the debut event:

Chad Gerlach once climbed mountains with the best cyclists in the world and rode as a teammate of Lance Armstrong. Gerlach’s athletic acclaim is long gone, but he’s about return to a national spotlight no one seeks.

The winner of nearly 100 career races will be the subject beginning Monday night, June 16 on the Arts & Entertainment Network program, Intervention.

The show will be broadcast at 9 p.m. Eastern Time and again Tuesday, June 17 at 1 a.m. Eastern Time.

The program is exactly what its name implies, a television show that serves as intervention of someone in the spiral of drug and or alcohol abuse.

Gerlach, 34, who was raised in West Sacramento but now lives in a recovery facility in Auburn, Calif., left cycling in 2002 and then lived for five years homeless and in despair in downtown Sacramento.