Maddy Reynolds
The Second Wind is about new life. I spent my first life in the corporate world. Now I’m chasing one that feels like my own. In this space I share all the highs & lows - the best moments come when you’re in the pain cave & find another gear. A second wind
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Fit Enough to Break (opens the original)
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This year, my coach and I have tried several different ways of solving the same problem:How do you rebuild an athlete after RED-S without either under-training her or breaking her?So far, we’ve tested two very different training philosophies.Both produced excellent fitness.Both also ended with me inside an MRI machine.So I wouldn’t call either experiment a complete success.In my last article, I wrote about getting my period back after eight years of amenorrhoea and the slightly inconvenient fact
I Got My Period Back. So Why Am I Still Getting Injured? (opens the original)
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Apparently, if you stop publishing on Substack for long enough, they do not revoke your account.Great news.In my defence, life has been fairly full.I’ve now been living in France long enough that Annecy feels much more like home than somewhere I moved to. I worked at a sports nutrition start-up. I left the sports nutrition start-up. I found a training rhythm. I lost the training rhythm. I stood on plenty of race start lines and made it to a statistically disappointing number of finish lines.So t
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