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daniellepatterson 's review for:
Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
by Lauren Fleshman
It took me a minute to collect my thoughts on this one. Reading it just as a story was very interesting to me. I love reading about other runner’s lives. And the fast ones can be particularly interesting. I did not go into this wanting to read it just as a story though- I knew it would talk a lot about eating disorders in athletes and I wanted to read it from a coaching perspective. I wanted to learn about what I could do that I haven’t already been. My biggest take away is to help support and encourage young female athletes to let their bodies change and do their thing. There might be a stall in improving for a bit but if you see it through- continue to train and take special care to nourish your body and work on the mental skills, there’s a high chance you’ll come out stronger. I think I should probably be communicating this more to the athletes I work with and get a bit vulnerable and share my own experiences with developing into my adult body while navigating sport and society’s influence on our bodies. I think that having an older athlete share this would have been very helpful for 14 and even 18 year old me.
None of the information she offered was anything I hadn’t heard before but letting that sink in allowed me to think about how I can apply it to my job.
None of the information she offered was anything I hadn’t heard before but letting that sink in allowed me to think about how I can apply it to my job.