Lauren Fleshman
@laurenfleshman
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NYT Bestselling Author: Good for a Girl. Former pro athlete and coach. Picky Bars co-founder. Wilder Retreats. Feminist, sometimes cranky 🏳️🌈(she/her)
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Equal sports opportunities for women was mandated 50 years ago by Title IX legislation. TODAY: Champion runner
@laurenfleshman
explains why getting access to a sports world built by men, for men and boys isn’t working for girls and women. Her book is 'Good for a Girl.'
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Please let this become the number one gif result when searching “Fuck Yes.”
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“Helping her [Shalane Flanagan] helped me and I kind of got my legs back from there.”
There is a performance advantage to being in service of others.
There are health benefits to being in service of others.
Everyone wins.
Let’s do it in sport and life.
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"Dear High School Lauren..."
I wrote a letter to my younger self. I hope it reaches those who need it.
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This election is the lightbulb that reveals the invisible ink of racism and sexism in our country.
#ElectionNight
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What happened to Mary Cain was worse than I feared. This story is familiar to thousands of girls and young women in sports. It has to STOP. Thank you for your bravery Mary.
#TimesUp
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Some things you can work on with an athlete before getting into body comp:
Advancing training
Mental tools for racing
Sleep & recovery
Sports nutrition
Biomechanics/form
Strength and mobility
Confidence
Listening to their body
1000 other things
Weight fixation is lazy coaching
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I am thrilled to formally announce that GOOD FOR A GIRL, my upcoming memoir, feminist manifesto, and love letter to the running life, is going to be published by Penguin Press! Can't WAIT to get to work. Read more about the book and how to engage here:
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Feeling grateful my exercise of choice can be done alone, outside.
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To all the brave girls & women in sports who have been telling your story of toxic ED culture & not being heard—share your work, your blog, your book, your tweet. Tell it again, or for the first time. Let’s make it so loud it’s impossible not to hear. We need to
#FixGirlsSports
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The Salazar news...pleased to see whistleblowers like
@karagoucher
and those who investigate, report on, & fight for clean sport finally able to give the middle finger to every troll, & every “ethical gray area” Internet evangelist. Know better, do better. Well done
@usantidoping
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Every day I wake up now and feel so grateful for anti-depressants. The farther I get out of depression the more I realize how bad it was. How dangerous a situation I was in. I wish I’d known a family doctor or OB can prescribe, I thought only a psychiatrist (3 month wait) could.
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This article IS the problem. Not puberty. Not girls having their own NORMAL development curve that differs from boys. Stop punishing women for having normal woman experiences and making them dread womanhood. Ultimate potential is found in a woman’s body.
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White folks in the running community are expressing shock about the racist killing of
#AhmaudArbery
out for a jog. We must also
#DoTheWork
to understand privilege, structural racism, & white supremacy, so we can be actively anti-racist inside & outside our running community.
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She’s here. Zadie Franklin Thomas. Born October 8, 6:12pm. More:
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The keto diet trend is not driven by science. It’s driven by opportunistic businesses, and mimicked by competitor businesses afraid of losing market share to them.
Food trends, unlike...say...bell bottom pants, can carry physical and mental health consequences. Tread carefully.
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We need to stop lying to girls by saying “you can do anything men can.”
It’s more honest to say, “you can do anything men can once we topple the patriarchy and educate everyone on bias and misogyny. So alongside chasing your hopes and dreams, make sure to be doing that too.”
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Sandbagging couple of the year 😂. We both won the half marathon at
@ShamrockPDX
!
I completely surprised myself today, starting at 6:30 miles, catching people on climbs, and bringing it home in the 5:40’s. As I ran toward the finish I thought “This lion heart just won’t quit.”
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I would like to whip out my broken record and play it for you. Obey leash laws. No matter how nice your dog is, you don’t know people’s histories with dogs. I’d really love for my kid to get over his fear of dogs in public, but it’s tough WHEN YOU DONT OBEY LEASH LAWS.
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I came out of pro athlete retirement for this stupid human trick attempt, enjoy.
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We are watching the President of the Gritty Bitches Racing Team doing her thing.
@des_linden
we are with you!!!
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Look at how Val moves her body to break this American Record. It’s ballet + MMA + floo powder.
🚨 AMERICAN RECORD 🚨
With a huge personal best,
@vallman123
set a new discus American 🇺🇸 record (pending ratification) of 70.15m/230-2 to break Gia Lewis-Smallwood’s 2014 record of 69.17m. Allman’s personal best before tonight was 67.15m.
🎥
@CoachSion
#Throwsbysion
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I’ll miss watching you race, Shalane. But I’m thrilled to have another woman coach to share stories and grab beers with. I like to imagine us at Gags age, with 50+ years of running life behind us. May sports become a better and better place for women to rise and lead from.
With happy tears I announce today that I am retiring from professional running.
From 2004 to 2019 I’ve given everything that’s within me to this sport and wow it’s been an incredible ride!
I’ve broken bones,…
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I keep thinking about how I wish I had living grandparents. I’m old enough now to want to sit and chat for hours and draw out the stories of their lives. I’m old enough now to better know what to ask.
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I’d trade my engagement ring to run injury free in a hot second. Who’s with me
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Ok so
@jessemthomas
had a great race and all that but at one point I carried my completely cracked almost-five-year-old in the baby’s pack on my back and held the sweating baby in my arms plus my diaper bag of shit and walked 10 min up a huge hill so I’m proud of myself.
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I wish Americans had to read 15 minutes of real journalism about the state of the world before their social media platforms would unlock.
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Men:”You can’t pay women’s sports the same as men because they don’t generate as much revenue.”
Also men, who control sports media:
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I accidentally bought $17 Brie (thought it was $7), and after cursing, I went ahead and ate some.
Oh.
I understand now.
Dammit.
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So many tears pouring out of me today. I’ve lost all my tricks for holding them back. As it should be. Filled with gratitude for your life so fully lived
@gg_runs
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Today's a big day I've been working toward for so long. GOOD FOR A GIRL is available for pre-order! Take a look at the cover, the absolutely incredible endorsements I'm still pinching myself over, and more at . There's a pre-order incentive too. Thank you🥰
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What if instead of “whipping” our bodies into “shape” we moved our bodies into power?
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I really hope y’all are watching the marathon in the Olympics right now!
@ByGollyMolly12
!!!
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Read this. Megan Brown, I’m in awe of your bravery and resilience and furious and heartbroken at what you have gone through. Thank you for taking your story into the light. It will help us
#fixgirlssports
and save lives. Incredible reporting.
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HOLY SHIT
We are thrilled to share that Good For A Girl by
@laurenfleshman
is on an
@amazonbooks
billboard in NYC! Check out the book and more content celebrating Women’s History Month here:
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Longest run in I don’t even know...6 months? 8? Who cares. Long time. It was 5 miles, 3 of which were fantastically miserable. More please!
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Look I don’t know
@shelbo800
personally & you can never know what someone does behind closed doors. But I trust Jerry. And if our current system is asking us to accept clean athlete casualties, I’m NOT here for that. I’d rather we miss some dopers than ruin even 1 clean athlete.
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Both
@des_linden
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@ShalaneFlanagan
won major marathons in the months following significant breaks in training atypical for them.
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When your local 5k runs past your house! Tons of fun out there today celebrating & supporting survivors of breast cancer at
#heavencanwait
. 1st women, 4th overall, 5:53 pace for 3.25miles (wrong turn 🙈). My goal was to stay under 6:00 the whole time. Hurts just like it used to!
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I hope that you vote.
Even if we disagree.
Even if you think it doesn’t count.
Let’s go for the American Record for greatest % of people who fucking showed up and gave a shit.
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Oh baby! We're expecting a baby girl in October! Time to up the Goddess factor in the Flomas house.
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Everything this week makes me miss my dad. I woke up excited to call him and update him for the first time in a couple years and then remembered. If the holidays are hard for you too, I see you, and I send you 💓.
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Friendly reminder that you are awesome and enough and fuck anyone who says differently.
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After a lifetime of building a life around highly specific exercise for a living as a pro athlete, I find myself six years past retirement trying for the hundredth time to motivate myself to move regularly for basic things like not dying prematurely and guys why is that hard?
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I always thought “the washer must have eaten my missing socks” was a joke. Look what
@mellawrence29
found when she took apart her top loading washer.
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“Mom leaves family responsibilities behind to get gritty in a cross country race she hasn’t trained for in another state because the team needs a 5th runner and she loves cross country more than she fears facing the clock” is the plot of this story I’m checking out.
#usatfclubxc
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For the first time in too long, I feel like my daily run won’t have to primarily serve to dig me out of something.
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I’m back! I unfollowed everyone. It’s not you, it’s me. Let’s be honest, when you’re married with kids, there are only so many places to go for the feeling of a clean slate. Or a clean anything really 😂
#NewProfilePic
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Women using their bodies purely for their own power and pleasure is still a revolutionary act. Pass it on.
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I’m so tired. I’m very moved by the collective action in this community. Take deep breaths, recharge, and then keep coming back. I can’t imagine having this week as it was and racing a 50k tomorrow so I’m gonna send extra love to
@karagoucher
right now. And you ❤️
#fixgirlssports
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Overheard a conversation between two women about how this was the year they were making “Healthy Thanksgiving.” As in “mashed cauliflower with fat free gravy” and other terrifying ideas.
Thanksgiving foods are fine as they are; eating a mountainful is the problem!
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This should be big news in women’s sports IMO.
Congrats
@MalindiElmore
for amazing 2:32 debut
@HoustonMarathon
! Top Cdn, 7th overall. No elite status, 2 kids, 7 mo post-baby!
#worldclass
#TeamHoodElmore
@grahamhood
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It has been alarming to see the patios of bars flooded with people in Bend. No masks. Reckless entitled tourism is going to be the cause of extended pain in our city and others like us. Don’t escape your city to be an asshole somewhere else thanks.
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It is natural to want to find a workaround. In every system of human life you see it. Taxes, driving behaviors, education, sports. The thing that stands out about the Salazar case to me isn’t the desire to work every crack in the system...
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Most people would figure out they had two different shoes on before they ran six miles. I’m not like most people.
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The outpouring of love for those we lose to suicide is beautiful and heartbreaking, and it makes me wish we knew who was hurting so we could shower them with collective appreciation and love before they leave us.
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Can we talk about my best friend and her 16 year circuitous path from Olympian at 1500m to being robbed of opportunities for YEARS by dopers and crazy elevated Canadian A+ standards, then Ironman, 2 kids and now going for marathon
#Tokyo2020
? Can we??
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Got my third private message in a week from a NCAA track & field athlete (different programs) expressing deep concern about team policies of mandatory weekly weigh ins for all athletes.
I would like to hear this policy explained because I don’t understand. I want to learn why.
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So excited for
@Steph_Rothstein
running 15:17 for 5k tonight! Holy shit woman! She just keeps getting better. Never count her out.
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My 4 yr old just told me a story: he went to a church as a spirit wanting parents & was told he had to come back as a baby, & chose us after visiting us at our wedding 10 yrs ago & described the cake & my dress. There were a lot of accurate details. I’m scared to go to sleep now.
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The key to success is often as simple as “be the one who keeps on doing it.”
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Just try concentrating on work with this going on in your body all the time.
#yeahitsweird
#iwishmenhadbabies
#keepingitreal
#notsorry
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Your best performances don’t happen in spite of setbacks. Your ultimate potential is impossible to reach without them.
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I overheard two flight attendants talking for an hour about all the ways they’ve tried to shrink themselves, and it reminded me how much we as women are socialized to be small. Entire industries depend on it.
Take up space.
Be yourself.
Change the world.
(Art:
@jacquelinealnes
)
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This is a career defining moment for
@ShalaneFlanagan
and we are going to commercial!!! She should be painted on this screen to the finish!
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Every year I’m Lauren, The Wicked Bitch of the West. Might as well get an extra night out of it.
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My kid said fucker the other day at the dinner table sympathetically when Jesse and I were relating a frustrating event. He then apologized for using the “grown up word” but I was secretly impressed how not awkward it sounded compared to me in college.
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Meb is 39, father of 3, product of American schools, American running system, pioneer on changing sponsorship model, and Boston champ.
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51% of parenting is a willingness to endlessly repeat yourself without losing your shit.
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You can lose endorsement income for being a mom.
You can lose your ranking for being a mom.
You can lose a year of experience...
You can lose your world-beating body...
You can lose your life (literally)...
But you’re supposed to forget you’re a mom on the court.
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Without a better system we can trust, I judge clean sport performance viability by the emotions at the finish line.
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I’m here to coach you in your stress running plan today.
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I really hope y’all are watching the marathon in the Olympics right now!
@ByGollyMolly12
!!!
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People continue to express shock that abuse is allowed to persist for years and abusers are enabled. Why are you shocked? We dismiss the abuse of women and girls systemically because at the basic level we still don’t fully view women as people.
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I have exciting personal news! I've signed with
@SalomonRunning
as my footwear and hydration partner! My goals are to run healthy on the road and trail, and help build a fun, inclusive running community. The women leading Salomon USA are making moves!
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Find a partner who holds on to love the way Jesse holds onto his bike.
You can’t succeed if you don’t try!... Sometimes you can’t succeed anyway. [sound on] ps. Can you hear
@laurenfleshman
laugh? I coulda been dead.
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Can’t turn your back on a 17 month old. Pictured: Glitter I didn’t know I owned.
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That’s my old teammate, coached by the one and only Mark Rowland. Sally is an incredible person 💗
Sally Kipyego claims the third and final spot on the U.S. Olympic women's marathon team!
@usatf
|
#MarathonTrials20
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Contrary to what many high school and college athletes believe, getting your period is ACTUALLY CRITICALLY IMPORTANT. Low energy availability has real consequences. Remember:
“You can’t run fast if you can’t run.” - quote by Olympian
@MalindiElmore
really proud of this new paper with
@IdaHeikura
@LouiseMBurke
et al.. in world class runners: amenorrheic and low testosterone runners have 4.5X more bone injuries and up to 10X more days lost training than controls!
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Except all the distance runners who had been overtraining.
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Biggest news of my professional career, hands down. Picky Bars has been acquired by Laird Superfood, and the future is incredibly bright! Jesse’s CEO report has the details:
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