Last week I sent you an email with my new coaching offers. But I want to tell you more about how I got there. Because what happened to my business is the same thing I watch happen to many women in midlife … You don't lose your edge all at once. You trade it away one reasonable people-pleasing decision at a time. I started my coaching business in 2014. From then through 2019, when The Durable Runner came out, my message was clear: I help endurance athletes stop getting injured and do epic...
7 days ago • 3 min read
Well, after a two-and-a-half-year break, I'm back in ultramarathon training — gearing up for two 50Ks and a 50-miler in 2027. Which means a lot of Sundays spent on my feet, alone in the woods, thinking. And most of what I've been thinking about is who I want to become in the era to come. Turns out the answer is pretty specific. I want to be someone who spends her time chasing something meaningful instead of scrolling. Who puts her energy into going for it — a race, a summit, a number on the...
13 days ago • 3 min read
I hear it all the time from women who are doing genuinely badass things. After months or years of hard work, they PR their half. They deadlift over 200 pounds. They finish the training block strong, finally running pain-free again. And then comes the "but." "But I weigh more now." "But I thought I'd get leaner at the same time." "But my body comp didn't change." In over a decade of coaching, I have never once had a male client tell me, "I got faster, stronger, and fitter — but dammit, I...
28 days ago • 3 min read
I'm writing this from my living room floor. Next to me: my 55-lb cattle dog mix, heavily medicated, snoozing away. He hurt his foot last week and in about an hour I have to pick him up, carry him to the car, and then into the vet's office. Just me, deadlifting a limp dog off the floor and getting him where he needs to go — without a single question about whether I can do it safely. That's the return on an investment I've been making for years: training for the capability I want to have, not...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
"I didn't change anything about my training or my eating, and my body is responding differently." I hear this from women constantly. Babe ... your body IS different now. Every cell in your body has estrogen receptors because estrogen is involved in nearly every physiological process. As estrogen declines in midlife, everything is affected. You're not more weak or fragile now. You've just lost your margin for error. Estrogen gave you a buffer - a cushion that let "good enough" training still...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
The health and wellness industry gave women a recipe ... but not for health and fitness. It was how little can you eat. How much hunger can you ignore. How much smaller can you get. Every generation, it got dressed up in different clothes, but that was always the formula. Not strength. Not performance. Not capacity. Just smaller. Men got a different set of options for health and fitness goals. Get bigger. Get faster. Get stronger. Build something. The metrics were about what a body could do....
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
The disempowering messages — the ones that tell women they're fragile, that it's all downhill, that they just need to shrink — are everywhere. They're well-funded and they're loud. The people with the proven, empowering strategies are getting drowned out. And it's costing women dearly. When I set out to make the Aging Athletically Podcast, I wanted to accomplish a few things: Bust the dangerous and pervasive myths about our aging bodies. Inspire active and athletic women in midlife to get...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
If you've been training hard and eating well, showing up even on the days you don't feel like it, but the effort you're putting in just isn't paying off the way it used to... I've been working on something for you and it's finally almost ready to share. It's called The Aging Athletically Podcast and it's everything I wish someone had told me about thriving in midlife as a woman — sooner. For 12 years, I've watched women train hard and eat well and still hit a wall. And then, in my early 40s,...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
You train hard. You eat "clean." You show up on the days you don't feel like it. You've been disciplined about this for years. So why TF are you slower, weaker, and more banged-up than you were five years ago? One expert says it's your age. Another says it's your cortisol. And that one over there says "welcome to perimenopause." Nope. Nope. And nope. Here's the real problem. Most of the training and nutrition advice aimed at women over 40 was never built to make you a better athlete. It was...
2 months ago • 2 min read
