FOR THE LADIES ONLY!! TMI
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I have the worst runs when on TOM. But only if it is a few days before and the first day of. I feel achy and do not have as much energy. Usually after day 1 I feel a lot better and back to normal energy wise don't feel so achy.
I don't have any need to be on hormonal birth control so I don't want to take if I don't need to. So I have no idea what the solution is.0 -
I was unfortunate enough to have an 8hr timed run with Aunt Flo on Saturday. The last loop could not be started after the 7hr mark, so I only ran for 7:23, but I definitely was grateful that there was a bathroom for the inevitable tampon swap. Had I been on a course without facilities I would've had to pack it out in a plastic bag. Done that once before- no fun. So I was slow, and it was painful, but the upside is that toughing it out makes it "easy"- or at least "easiER"- when you are not TOM. I tend to be happy for adversity in my training runs (and though this was a race I was treating it as a training run) because I know I will be able to persevere when I have to bring my A game and I encounter a rough patch. So even though it sucks to run on those days, look at it as an opportunity to make yourself stronger mentally and embrace it. Ok, maybe "embrace" is going a bit too far.
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