50 miles for 50th bday?
Running long in midlife isn’t the first thing (or second) I recommend to women. But what happens when your peak estrogen levels were at least a decade ago? What if you’ve got a crazy goal, want to go for it, and you know how to interpret reactions and respond accordingly?
Come on this unique trail as I interview a friend and colleague around her idea of a fun birthday party that not all of us will appreciate the same way.
My Guest:
Margaret Floyd Barry is a functional nutritionist, author, speaker, educator and advocate of optimal health through nutrition of adult life. Seeing family members suffer the effects of chronic illness from a young age, Margaret helps others find a better way back to optimal health and wellbeing.
Margaret worked on complex cases of autoimmune, including her own. She established a powerful system for restoring health by addressing the root cause of illness. Margaret teaches fellow practitioners the proven system with life-changing results through Restorative Wellness Solutions, which has trained and certified over 1200 qualified health practitioners worldwide. She is the author of Eat Naked: Unprocessed, Unpolluted and Undressed Eating for a Healthier, Sexier You and The Naked Foods Cookbook.
Questions We Answer in This Episode:
- What inspires a woman to run 50 miles for her 50th birthday? [00:05:30]
- How long have you been running? [00:09:00]
- Where are you in the menopause timeline? How much has that changed your training and recovery? [00:21:20]
- How do you train for a 50 mile run differently than your previous marathons? What was the result? [00:21:20]
- What were the key dietary strategies you used? What are the results? Were they different in the past? [00:26:50]
- How did you manage autoimmune disease and training at this level, without triggering an all out autoimmune flare? [00:32:20]
- How did recovery play into things? [00:26:10]
- Would you do it again? Does longer appeal to you? [00:40:20]
- Did training take a toll on energy for work or relationships? [00:24:40]
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