After putting out her last cigarette, Ilse Dippmann finished her first marathon. She later stood at the start of a women’s run that marked a new chapter in her athletic journey. In 1986 she received a flyer while in New York, an incident she recalls. Four decades later she organized the women’s run in Vienna’s Prater park. To celebrate the milestone she led an “Anniversary Run”. The event highlighted her personal success story as a race organizer.