fangirling: extreme women today
Aug. 16th, 2009 10:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
e_phemerartLol....and the ballyhooed spectacle of sport continues...
As she mentions in her book THE EXTRA MILE, Ultramarathoner Pam Reed wasn't exactly thrilled with this 2005 article about her...
I mean, really, check out the title! "Desperate Housewife Stalks Male Supermodel in Sports Death March"
http://outside.away.com/outside/bodywork/200510/ultrarunners-1.html
Also, here's a little wiki bio for Pam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Reed
and an article on her first Badwater win: http://runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=5383
Ok, I've put off mentioning one other fact about my fangirling Pam Reed; she's a recovering anorexic. My issues with food are not the same as hers were, but maybe there's still a message...
"Reed credits ultrarunning with healing her relationship with food. For 15 years, she battled anorexia. "I look at food now as fuel," says the former triathlete, who ingests Ensure, Red Bull, noodles and oatmeal during a race (often while running). "If I don't eat, then I can't do what I want to do. I see food now as a positive thing." She shoots down the suggestion that her anorexia actually prepped her for the deprivations of her sport. "A lot of people think that," she says, "but it didn't."
Instead she points to a surprising secret weapon: her age. "A huge aspect of ultrarunning is patience," explains Reed, who is 45 (now 49). "And patience comes with age. I am not a really fast runner. I broke three hours in a marathon once. But in ultrarunning, it's not about speed — it's about heart."
From: http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/diet-fitness/inside-mind-serial-runner.html
As she mentions in her book THE EXTRA MILE, Ultramarathoner Pam Reed wasn't exactly thrilled with this 2005 article about her...
I mean, really, check out the title! "Desperate Housewife Stalks Male Supermodel in Sports Death March"
http://outside.away.com/outside/bodywork/200510/ultrarunners-1.html
Also, here's a little wiki bio for Pam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Reed
and an article on her first Badwater win: http://runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=5383
Ok, I've put off mentioning one other fact about my fangirling Pam Reed; she's a recovering anorexic. My issues with food are not the same as hers were, but maybe there's still a message...
"Reed credits ultrarunning with healing her relationship with food. For 15 years, she battled anorexia. "I look at food now as fuel," says the former triathlete, who ingests Ensure, Red Bull, noodles and oatmeal during a race (often while running). "If I don't eat, then I can't do what I want to do. I see food now as a positive thing." She shoots down the suggestion that her anorexia actually prepped her for the deprivations of her sport. "A lot of people think that," she says, "but it didn't."
Instead she points to a surprising secret weapon: her age. "A huge aspect of ultrarunning is patience," explains Reed, who is 45 (now 49). "And patience comes with age. I am not a really fast runner. I broke three hours in a marathon once. But in ultrarunning, it's not about speed — it's about heart."
From: http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/diet-fitness/inside-mind-serial-runner.html
