Okay.

Hi everyone.

Welcome to episode 10 of the Run Selfie Repeat podcast where we talk about life with the side of running because sometimes life is just so incredibly frustrating and aggravating that you have to spend your time running to make everything feel okay. Who can tell that I'm a little

on edge? Can you tell that I'm a little on edge? Because I'm on edge. So today I want to talk

about something that really lights a fire under my, well, you know where that was going. And it's this

idea that the health and fitness industry

has been serving up for years and years and years and years. And it's not just the health and

fitness industry. It's, it's everywhere. It's the media in general. It's like, it's that

strength looks a certain way. It's this idea that we all should be striving for the exact same body shape

because it's only if we acquire rippling muscles and very little body fat.

And if we look like Victoria's secret models that

you know then will be beautiful or acceptable or desirable or sexy or strong which I think strong is

the word that I find most important right now because you know all my life, the media has shown me what strength looked like

and it never looked like me. And this morning I had an article that I wrote for Outside Magazine

go live online. And for some reason, instead of feeling like just really excited and grateful that

awesome publications like Outside Magazine or Women's Running Magazine or even my

incredible sponsor, Wazelle, is helping me redefine what strength looks like. They're all,

I mean, they're all helping me get this message out. What really frustrated to me is knowing

that will probably never actually be the change that I personally want to see in the

industry and in the world. And it just, it struck a chord with me and it put me in such a shitty mood

today. I don't know why. Probably because it's my rest day and I couldn't go for a run.

But this really does just frustrate me to no end because I just, I think back to when I was

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