Look at Allie O

She's everything that's right about running- she jokes and celebrates. She's learned to accept and be happy with her results.

Everyone should enjoy this sport the way she seems to.

I so want her to make the Olympic Team. But even finals at the Trials would be great.

Yesh, worst take ever. She had a disease and has had dozens of forks in the road to quit. She is indeed perseverance super hero. Watching her ride a stationary bike 3 hours at a time alone during recovery is enough to inspire me.

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Amenorrhea and Running: Is it Normal for Female Runners to Miss Their Period?

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Is it common and is it healthy to have missed periods when training hard? The research and answers.

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Maybe try reading about it before going off. And why get angry at me for being mentally ill? Is that what you say to Allie about her mental illness?

You like to quote that 60% figure as if it pertains to all female athletes. But that is not even close to what the paper says, which I have read, and which I will cite here.

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Influence of high intensity training on menstrual cycle disorders in athletes - PubMed

High-intensity training before menarche postpones its onset. Type of training may be related to a significantly higher prevalence of secondary amenorrhea in runners than in basketball players.

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This was a study done 23 years ago, in Croatia, in just 72 athletes, of which just 34 were runners. And it used a self-completed questionnaire. Hardly evidence of a widespread problem. Though I believe it is, just not anywhere near the level you quote.

Its looking good. Its her fastest opener ever, and she got down to the 9:20s before, so surely she can get pretty close to that mark.

No. Just the opposite. It is mainly endurance athletes. Do you believe the Government? 72% in this study.

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Prevalence of amenorrhea in elite female competitive climbers

Elite competitive sport climbers exhibit a high strength-to-weight ratio and are reported in the literature to be lighter and leaner than their athletic counterparts. Current research regarding nutrition among climbers is spa...

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Emile Cairess.

Yes, he is.

Me too. I'm rooting for her as the underdog to pull it out at the trials. I don't think it is outside the realm of possibility. She said she has never opened this fast (9:37), she seems to be in the best place mentally/emotionally in years. It seems reasonable that she could progress this season and run faster than she did at the last trials (9:26), if she dips under 9:20 she gets the Olympic standard and has a high change of being on the podium. I think 9:18 was 3rd at last trials. Anyhow, hoping she has a great season regardless and she is happy and healthy in her life.

That's a roundabout way of saying "a malnourished body cannot support a developing fetus."

This is gross. In the past 10 months, two of my teammates have died. One due to active ED and one due to the residual effects. I have friends who are in their 20s with osteoporosis. It's not a joke and not something for a dumb boy on the internet to insert his opinion into.

Pregnant women don't get their period? Duh. It's because the lining of the uterus is responsible for sustaining the pregnancy. It's in no way the same thing. Post menopausal women don't get their period because it's a natural part of the aging process, and there are a lot of negative health effects that women experience during and after menopause that many young women who are missing a period also experience.

Many women can run 100 MPW and still have a healthy cycle. It requires proper nutrition (more than just calories, but the correct ratios of carbs, protein, fiber, etc.), hydration, REST, and nurturing your entire body. I have never been overweight in my life, and have never run more than 50 MPW. I went years without a regular cycle. At the time, I thought it was good that I was missing a period. I thought it meant that I was working hard, I would lose weight, and results would follow. What actually happened was I am now chronically anemic, I break at least one bone a year, and my husband and I tried for five years to have a child before IVF was successful.

This thread is gross. Let Allie enjoy her newfound success and freedom. Success looks different to everyone, and she deserves to be celebrated for everything she has accomplished, most of which you were not witness to and have no concept of.

Allie O is a good runner and Vlogger. I cheer her on. 9:37 is a good opener.

People who bash her are mentally ill.

You mean convicted doper allie o

We know Emma Coburn won’t make the team since she’s completely done.

Courtney Frerichs is an unknown quantity at the moment but I would assume she’s out as well.

Wayment seems like a lock, and Jennings is running well. Big gap after them. Hope Allie knows she can mix it up with everyone else.

Wait. lets go back a few threads. Remember the whole ultra/mountain running thing? Maybe we have discovered something. I suspected all along she was running that stuff not as new career, as some suggested, but as a tool to get back to where she is.

Considering the fits and starts she has had even recently, the fact that she is wear she is = astounding. She is as much an example of X training utility as Valby.

I agree that, in light of the 9:37 opener, most of which she ran by herself, making the OT finals is a realistic goal, though far from a given. She's obviously quite talented, and has good 400 speed. I would neither bet on her reaching the podium (after all, she was only 4th at Payton Jordan), nor dismiss it as so unlikely as to be silly. We'll see how the season progresses, but right now I'd predict a mid-pack finish at the Trials final (8th - 10thish).

I just don't support 'look at me' athletes who dope and bring all their problems upon themselves as adults.

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Can't forget about Gear as well. I wish Allie O the best, but she will have some tough competition.