Introducing Season 2: Running In a Woman's Body: Stories of Menopause, RED-s, Pregnancy

02/16/21 • 2 min

Each episode features one woman's running journey through a time of bodily change. The season features athletes from around the world and of differing levels of ability and interest. The one common thread is a love of running long distances, marathons and more.

The first episode launches February 24.

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The first episode launches February 24.

Follow Strides Forward on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StridesForward

Follow Strides Forward on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stridesforward/

Follow host Cherie Turner on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clouiseturner/

Learn more at StridesForwardpodcast.com

Previous Episode

Courtney Dauwalter: Problem Solving Ultramarathons, Bringing the Mental Game

Get inside the process of navigating an ultramarathon with world-class runner Courtney Dauwalter. Courtney shares her evolution into the sport of ultra running, and how she's learned to problem solve the many challenges involved to get from start to finish. Central to her exploration is the mental game and excavating the hallowed space of the pain cave.

Courtney is well known in the ultra running community, and news of her accomplishments has even extended into mainstream media. She started gaining wider recognition in 2017, when she won the Moab 240 Endurance Run outright: that's 240, as in miles. She’s also won internationally prestigious races like the Western States 100 Mile and UTMB, she’s held the 24-hour world record, and in 2020 she won the US title for the Big’s Backyard Ultra Challenge.

Courtney is undeniably one of the best ultra runners in the world. She’s also developed a deep interest in exploring the limits of human endurance. Through those pursuits, she’s learned a lot about the many obstacles runners face in ultra events and how to resolve them.

One area she's particularly interested in is the mental side of ultra-endurance running. Here, we get into it.

Follow Courtney on Instagram: @courtneydauwalter

Ways to Connect and Engage with Women's Running Stories

Instagram: @womensrunningstories

Twitter: @WomenRunStories

Website: womensrunningstories.com

Email host Cherie: [email protected]

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Next Episode

Sophie Speidel: A Menopause Journey as a Competitive Athlete

Sophie Speidel is a lifelong athlete: being a competitor is motivating, rewarding, and fun. But there's a simple fact that comes with aging: our ultimate potentials in speed and strength begin to fade. In a sport like running, where we generally measure getting better as getting faster, how can we adjust to a body that's slowing down and still feel like we're improving?

Sophie's journey explores this very question as she takes us through her menopause experiences and how she continues to thrive and achieve as her body ages.

Mentioned in this episode

Sophie Speidel's writing on Trail Sisters: https://www.trailsisters.net/author/sophie-speidel/

Dr. Stacey Sims

Selene Yeager and the Hit Play Not Pause podcast

Barbara Hannah Grufferman's "Menopause Cheat Sheet"

Coach Parry's YouTube channel "The Female Athlete"

Coach Parry's "Running Through Menopause" training program

Sarah Lavender Smith's blog, "The Runner's Trip"

Ways to follow Sophie Speidel

Follow Sophie on Instagram: @sophiespeidel

Ways to Connect and Engage with Women's Running Stories

Instagram: @womensrunningstories