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S10 Ask Dr Hazel: Managing periods on long runs

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The Food Medic

Health & Fitness

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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This weeks listener question is:

“I’m training for a half-marathon, and I was just wondering how you practically manage your period on a long run?

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Hello and welcome back to Ask Dr Hazel are many episodes where I answer a question from our audience.

0:38.8

So let's hear from this week's listener.

0:41.2

Hi Hazel, so I'm training for a half marathon and I was just wondering how you practically

0:49.3

manage having your period on a long run.

0:52.3

Basically how can you... having your period on a long run?

0:53.0

Basically, how can you better prepare for it ahead of the run?

0:58.0

Thank you.

0:59.0

It's something I've actually been practically trying to figure out myself

1:02.0

whilst I've been training for a marathon.

1:04.8

First of all, it's completely safe to exercise or run during your period and while sometimes

1:09.7

it might feel like this is the last thing you want to do, it can actually help with symptoms.

1:15.8

What I would say though is if you can, perhaps adjust your running schedule so you're not doing

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