Are You A Female High School Runner? STOP EVERYTHING and Read This!

Being a high school runner is hard. Pressure to get good grades, be accepted by your peers and get into a good college are compounded by pressure to run fast and perform well. Being a female high school runner though, is even harder. Your bodies are changing in a way that may negatively impact your performance and […]
D3 Collegiate XC & Track Runner Shares Her Story

There was this unspoken rule on my team that if you did not perform well at a meet, you should not eat afterwards because you did not “earn it.” The same thing was true for practice. It was viewed as “strong” or a sign of toughness and self-control to not eat after working out. It was also viewed as a sign of weakness if we needed to take a drink in the middle of practice.