Running Long in Midlife and Beyond One 50-mile Run for a 50th Birthday

50 miles for 50th bday?

Running long in midlife isn’t the first thing (or second) I recommend to women. But what happens when your peak estrogen levels were at least a decade ago? What if you’ve got a crazy goal, want to go for it, and you know how to interpret reactions and respond accordingly?

Come on this unique trail as I interview a friend and colleague around her idea of a fun birthday party that not all of us will appreciate the same way.

My Guest:

Margaret Floyd Barry is a functional nutritionist, author, speaker, educator and advocate of optimal health through nutrition of adult life. Seeing family members suffer the effects of chronic illness from a young age, Margaret helps others find a better way back to optimal health and wellbeing.

Margaret worked on complex cases of autoimmune, including her own. She established a powerful system for restoring health by addressing the root cause of illness. Margaret teaches fellow practitioners the proven system with life-changing results through Restorative Wellness Solutions, which has trained and certified over 1200 qualified health practitioners worldwide. She is the author of Eat Naked: Unprocessed, Unpolluted and Undressed Eating for a Healthier, Sexier You and The Naked Foods Cookbook.

Questions We Answer in This Episode:

• What inspires a woman to run 50 miles for her 50th birthday? [00:05:30]
• How long have you been running? [00:09:00]
• Where are you in the menopause timeline? How much has that changed your training and recovery? [00:21:20]
• How do you train for a 50 mile run differently than your previous marathons? What was the result? [00:21:20]
• What were the key dietary strategies you used? What are the results? Were they different in the past? [00:26:50]
• How did you manage autoimmune disease and training at this level, without triggering an all out autoimmune flare? [00:32:20]
• How did recovery play into things? [00:26:10]
• Would you do it again? Does longer appeal to you? [00:40:20]
• Did training take a toll on energy for work or relationships? [00:24:40]

Connect with Margaret:

• www.margaretfloydbarry.com

On Social:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/margaretfloydbarry or https://www.instagram.com/restorativewellnesssolutions/

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