TehRUN's secret marathon
April 10, 2017 1:51 PM   Subscribe

After some organizers of TehRUN, Tehran's first international marathon, decided that female runners would not be allowed to run alongside men, due to the country's strict segregation rules, and could only partake in an indoor 6 mile (10km) "ladies run", 8 women ran the whole thing anyway. "That these women chose to run outdoors with men is technically against the law in Iran."

Al Jazeera: "They were also obliged to conform to a dress code, including a hair covering and a ban on any clothing that revealed bare legs."
posted by roomthreeseventeen (6 comments total) 14 users marked this as a favorite
 
I have only spent two weeks in Iran, so I'm not exactly an expert, however my impression was that every Iranian was breaking the law in some way pretty much all the time. The calculation seemed to be more one of how egregious to be and how public to be, in a society with such restrictive laws there didn't seem to be much room for a more fundamental calculation on whether to break the law in the first place. It's a complicated place.

Most people get away with it most of the time. I hope these women get away with it.
posted by deadwax at 2:53 PM on April 10, 2017 [9 favorites]


They persisted.
posted by Mental Wimp at 2:58 PM on April 10, 2017 [4 favorites]


RUNtheless, they persisted.
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:33 PM on April 10, 2017 [5 favorites]


RUNthemore, the persisted.
posted by Mental Wimp at 3:49 PM on April 10, 2017 [1 favorite]


Well, the men that finished ahead of them can feel plenty smug that they showed those inferior women that they should have stayed at home where they belong, and the men that they finished in front of got their knickers in a wad because, "uppity women don't know their place."
posted by BlueHorse at 7:15 PM on April 10, 2017 [1 favorite]


Seems risky.
posted by eye of newt at 11:49 PM on April 10, 2017 [1 favorite]


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