The Best Books That Will Motivate You to Runĭisordered eating was rampant among top young runners.įleshman went to Foot Locker as a junior and a senior.Her memoir, Good for a Girl, published by Penguin Press, continues that tradition. Fleshman exhibited a knack for giving words to what readers and runners, especially women, knew in their guts to be true. She tried to say it like it was, whether she was on Twitter, in the mixed zone talking to reporters after races, answering questions for her blog, AskLaurenFleshman, which launched in 2009, or writing for Runner’s World, where she had a popular monthly column.
But she finished seventh in the world championships in 2011 and won two national titles in the 5,000 meters, her specialty.Īlong the way, she became one of the truth-tellers in running, whose voice developed along with social media.
At Stanford University, she won three consecutive titles in the outdoor 5,000 meters.Īs a pro, bone injuries popped up at inopportune times-some of them almost certainly because she wasn’t eating enough-and she never made an Olympic team. She was emboldened, certainly, by her strong performances, which started early: Her senior year of high school, in 1998, Fleshman was the runner up at the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships.
Lauren Fleshman has always had a voice in running.
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