Movement

I’ve been running for about five years. I never pushed my pace or distance much, which is probably why I almost never had to stop for knee or ankle pain. Then, about a year into perimenopause, my knees started feeling off after runs, and a low, nagging ache showed up in my ankles while I … Read more

I never liked hard workouts. Swimming and walking were the extent of my movement for years, and I assumed that was enough. Then my forties arrived and something shifted — weight started settling in ways it hadn’t before, and once it arrived, it didn’t leave the way it used to. That’s what pushed me into … Read more

When the 3am wake-ups started, I assumed it was just perimenopause doing what perimenopause does. What surprised me was that running — something I’d started years earlier for a completely different reason — seemed to make a real difference. I’d picked up running just to build some basic stamina. I’d always thought of myself as … Read more