The Menopause 200 - An Ultrarunner’s Game Plan for Thriving Through Menopause with Kamm Prongay (Episode 108)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Ultrarunner Kamm Prongay is clear: she did not sign up for the Menopause 200. Her ovaries did. And when they did, she eventually found herself on the start line, unable to run. Kamm has been chronicling her journey through menopause in a series of essays in Ultrarunner.com, including one titled the Menopause 200, in which she shares her anxiety, brain fog, drenching night sweats, and ultimately performance decline and lack of drive to do the sport she loved. And this week, she shares that journey with us, as well as how she turned it around to regain her mojo, tame her symptoms, and get back on the trails.

Kamm Prongay is a writer, ultrarunner, and veterinarian whose essays intertwine science, nature, people, and place. A child of the South, raised in the Pacific Northwest, Kamm spent time at sea as a Naval Surface Warfare Officer before coming ashore to pursue veterinary school, clinical practice, teaching, and research. She has contributed to four books, along with essays published in scientific journals and UltraRunning magazine. When not running or supporting trail races, Kamm lives with her wife, Liz, and two curious cats in Portland, Oregon.

Resources

The Menopause 200, and Kamm’s other essays at ultrarunning.com

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best, no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:30.9	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:33.4	So this week we're talking about the Menopause 200, which as this week's guest,
0:39.5	Ultra Runner Cam Prongay assures us is not a race you can register for on the internet.
0:45.4	Instead, it's what Cam has deemed the menopause transition,
0:49.1	because it can take as much research, planning, training, and reconvickering your lifestyle
0:53.6	to thrive through it
0:55.4	as any 100 or 200 mile ultra running event. I found Cam through an article she wrote on all this,
1:02.9	titled The Menopause 200 for ultrarunning.com. I'll read you the first paragraph because honestly,
1:09.3	it's gold, and it's just why I knew I had to have her on the show.
1:13.5	So she wrote, to be clear, I did not sign up for the menopause 200, my ovaries did.
1:20.6	Oh, they had warned me this mandatory event was coming, waking me with a drenching sweat or anxiety storm, tapering periods, and replacing my brain with
1:30.2	mush that increasingly felt like it was thinking on the wrong side of frosted glass.
1:35.0	I was perfectly content to ignore it all, insert boiled frog emoji here, until I found myself
1:40.4	at the start line unable to run. I highly recommend reading the rest of the menopause
1:47.2	200 as well as the articles that she's written following that. And I'll put a link to all of those
1:52.9	in the show notes. You can find them at ultramurining.com. She's writing this series and it's really,
1:58.6	really good. Along with being an ultra runner and a writer, Cam is a veterinarian.
2:04.0	So she's very science-based and we just had a great conversation about her logical and emotional
2:10.1	journey through this transition that every active woman can benefit from hearing whether or not
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