Review: Kara Goucher and Lauren Fleshman reveal what’s wrong with women’s running
I was struck by this apt — if ill-advised — formulation. What made Fleshman’s comments particularly funny was their incongruity. As she spoke, she was dressed in the standard-issue feminine racing uniform: a fitted sports bra crop-top and tiny shorts cut like a bathing suit bottom. The moment captured something about the contradictions that underpin the fiercely competitive world of women’s sports.such an environment.
.” “The gloss was typically dialed up, the pictures were heavily photoshopped. . . . I looked like Miss America in a crop top.” “Most athletes don’t get their happy ending,” Goucher observes, reflecting on her own story. Coming from an Olympian with multiple World Championship and World Marathon Major medals, it’s a bracing perspective. Both books — Goucher’s and Fleshman’s — should be victory laps for two celebrated runners. But that’s not the sort of book either woman set out to write.
Her father was a volatile but loving alcoholic, “the kind of dad who wanted sons” and refused to adjust his approach to parenting when he got daughters instead. He used to goad his daughter into feats of strength or daring. But he saw something beyond mere prowess in her: “He would tell me I had something better than talent: I had heart,” she writes.
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