Sophie Speidel is a lifelong athlete: being a competitor is motivating, rewarding, and fun. But there's a simple fact that comes with aging: our ultimate potentials in speed and strength begin to fade. In a sport like running, where we generally measure getting better as getting faster, how can we adjust to a body that's slowing down and still feel like we're improving?

Sophie's journey explores this very question as she takes us through her menopause experiences and how she continues to thrive and achieve as her body ages.

Mentioned in this episode

Sophie Speidel's writing on Trail Sisters: https://www.trailsisters.net/author/sophie-speidel/

Dr. Stacey Sims

Selene Yeager and the Hit Play Not Pause podcast

Barbara Hannah Grufferman's "Menopause Cheat Sheet"

Coach Parry's YouTube channel "The Female Athlete" 

Coach Parry's "Running Through Menopause" training program 

Sarah Lavender Smith's blog, "The Runner's Trip"

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