Well not lazy….
But they do make you stand back in awe……
And shake your head….
Competitive running’s tough on a woman’s body, and so is having babies. Put them together and you get a smorgasbord of interrelated challenges that could sideline even the most dedicated athletes and exhaust the most devoted parents.
An elite female athlete may have difficulty even becoming pregnant. When American distance runner Kara Goucher and her husband decided to have a child, she reduced the number of miles she ran per week from 100 to 30 so that it would be easier for her to get pregnant. (Elite distance runners often experience amenorrhea due to low energy availability.) In addition to reducing training enough so that it’s possible for them to become pregnant, female runners must also accept that they’ll have to reduce the number of miles that they run during the pregnancy. There also comes a point, for some women, that running during pregnancy becomes impossible…...More….
Samia Akbar Photo Source ……runwashington.com
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