No wonder so many women are running scared — or outraged.
More than half of female joggers over 30 have been harassed, often sexually, according to a Runner’s World report shared exclusively with the Daily News.
The survey comes on the heels of the high-profile murders of three female joggers last summer: Queens resident Karina Vetrano, 30, near Howard Beach; Google employee Vanessa Marcotte, 27, in Princeton, Mass.; and Alexandra (Ally) Brueger, 31, shot in the back in Rose Township, Mich.
The violence has brought the vulnerability of women runners into the
spotlight. But beyond anecdotes shared among joggers, there were few
hard statistics until now to show just how many women are harassed while
running.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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