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And will keep it going in 2023
By Sara Gross
When I first started the Women’s Performance Podcast I wasn’t sure I even wanted to talk about “performance” at all. I used to be an elite athlete and when we talked about performance it usually meant a deep...
Questions to Ask Yourself as an Athlete
By Amelia Perry
Leave everything on the race course. Give it your all or don’t bother. Be faster. Try harder. These words echo through changing rooms, start lines, finish lines, around family dinner tables. And if...
Whether you aspire to start a business, move up to a C-suite position or be a better CEO of your own life, the lessons from endurance sport will serve you well - if you learn how to use them.
By Sara Gross, PhD
We’ve all heard it before - endurance athletes make better [fill...
You don’t have to love every part of your body to not hate it.
Text by Amelia Perry
All bodies are beautiful. Love your body. Be happy in your own skin. From Dove commercials to even some of our own Feisty Content, “body positivity” - helping women love, rather than...
Happy relationships are linked to mental and physical health - and sports performance.
By Sara Gross, PhD
“A happy athlete is a fast athlete.” Those were some of the first words Olympian and Ironman Champion, Sarah True, gushed during the press conference at the Ironman World...
And I’ve got five points to prove it
Something special is happening here. Women are stepping into their power.
It’s a thought I have often these days. Like on November 7th when Vic Brumfield became CEO of USA Triathlon, the first female leader in its 40-year history. Or...
No matter how much we say, "cycling is for all bodies", the false narrative that thinner is better has plagued cycling for decades. This article is from Girls Gone Gravel in partnership with Feisty Media. You can learn more about Girls Gone Gravel here.
Text by Kathryn Taylor
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When it comes to racing, you get to choose how you want to show up for the day. This article is from Girls Gone Gravel in partnership with Feisty Media. You can learn more about Girls Gone Gravel here.
Text by Kathryn Taylor
Based on many of the comments I see in our Girls...
Text by Sara Gross
If you told me before the race that motherhood would be a hot topic at the IRONMAN World Championships, I would not have believed you.
It started a couple weeks ago when 4x World Champion Mirinda Carfrae announced that she would not be racing because she wanted to...
This year we celebrate equal slots for male and female pros in Kona...but is it really that big of a deal? After all, triathlon has been pretty equal since its inception. Kelly O'Mara explores that question as we prepare for the Ironman World Championship in Kona.
Triathlon is not an old...
by Kelly O’Mara
Earlier this week, Memphis teacher Eliza Fletcher’s body was found miles away from where she had started her morning jog last Friday. She appears to have been abducted and murdered by a stranger while out on a run before work. It is a horrific crime and I am sick to my...
