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Female Athlete Triad: What All Women Runners Need to Know

February 23, 2016

What Every Female Runner Needs to Know About Female Athlete Triad

Last year, back when this little blog had a mere fraction of the visitors it has now, I wrote about female athlete triad. Since it’s National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, I want to address this topic again, since honestly I feel it deserves a lot more discussion for female runners. Female athlete triad is not an eating disorder, but it is oftentimes a consequence of disordered or restrictive eating. Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. I am a certified running coach, but I can only discuss ...

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Filed Under: Nutrition, Running, Training Tips Tagged With: female athlete triad, injury, nutrition, running, training tips

Female Athlete Triad

April 17, 2015

Male readers, this isn’t a post that directly applies to you—although it may be worth passing on to your girlfriends/wives! Today we’re going to talk about an issue that uniquely affects female athletes, especially female runners: female athlete triad. I feel like periods are still something that we are shy talking about, when in reality menstrual disorders affect an alarming number of women.   Female athlete triad is characterized by three major symptoms: low body weight (often ...

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Filed Under: Nutrition, Running Tagged With: amenorrhea, female athlete triad, health, nutrition, periods, running, training

How I Stay Injury-Free in Running

March 10, 2015

I have mentioned a few times here and in comments on other blogs that I am very fortunate to not get injured very often. Since I started running when I was a freshman in college (so going on seven years of running now), I have only been injured once. I’ve had some aches and pains, especially when I was new to running, and I’ve had to take breaks due to illness or travel, but only once have I had to stop running because of an injury. Back in the summer of 2010, I could not run and had to go to ...

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