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June 9, 2023 16 mins

Tune in as I share my personal journey with amenorrhea and how it led me to a newfound appreciation for that time of the month. We'll also discuss sustainable period products like menstrual discs and cups, which can be game-changers for women who love to exercise and run.

Ever wondered about the pros and cons of running every day or the world of ultra marathons? Join us as we explore the growing popularity of my YouTube video on running 10 miles a day for three years, and how ultra marathoning can challenge our mental and physical limits. Plus, discover the unique experience of listening to audiobooks while running these incredible distances and my personal plans for future ultra marathon endeavors. 

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Today's episode of the Lucy Beatrix podcast, we're
covering a couple differenttopics.
We're talking about women'shealth as far as menstruation,
and navigating periods in thecontext of life and running.
We're also talking aboutwhether or not you should run

(00:27):
every day, And then we're goingto just talk about what it's
like to run further than amarathon or an ultra marathon,
because these are all topicsthat are top of mind for me
right now.
And so, diving right in, thefirst thing that I really want
to talk to you guys about isperiods, and this is because, in

(00:49):
my 34 years on this planet, ihave a lot of interesting
perspective on menstruation Andthat I think that, unlike most
women that are, they hategetting their periods.
It's just such a pain.
I'm someone who loves getting myperiod.
I think it's just such anawesome reflection of where my

(01:09):
body is health wise, and thisprobably stems from not having a
period for most of my 20s.
I had a menorrhea or no periodfor probably about a decade,
especially during my modelingcareer, and so now I rejoice
when I get my period.

(01:30):
I get very excited, thinkingthat everything is working how
it should And it's kind of mybiomarker that I'm fueling
properly, especially when I'mtraining really heavy.
So if I am running 100 mileweeks when I'm marathon training
, getting my period is a reallygood sign And it's kind of like
my little check mark that I'mfueling and recovering and

(01:53):
keeping my body stress down,because I think that a lot of my
menorrhea had to do withunderfueling, not having enough
protein or fat and then alsobeing really stressed out from
my modeling career.
But on this topic of periodswhich, if you're a dude, maybe
you don't want to listen to this, but also if you are curious

(02:14):
about this stuff, maybe for yourgirlfriend or just to know
about, like what's going on withus girls I stumbled upon
something a few months ago thatI want to talk about And that is
that I discovered.
I discovered and I guess maybebecause it's like I was away
from having a period for a longtime, so to speak that when I

(02:34):
came back into the market ofmenstruation I learned about
these different things that arenot just your conventional
tampon.
So tampons which are made fromcotton, i believe, that actually
physically stay inside yourbody, are okay.

(02:54):
They're better than like a pador those absorbent underwear,
like things or whatever they'recalled, but they don't always do
the job.
So there are a couple otherthings on the market that I
didn't realize are out there andare more sustainable and
actually work.

(03:15):
So I wanted to talk about whateach of those things are.
The first thing is the menstrualdisc.
This is like a silicone discthing that you basically pinch,
like this.
If you're listening to this,you probably don't see what I'm
physically doing.
But it's basically like thislittle, little shallow cup that

(03:36):
you pinch and you insert And itsits there for several hours And
basically, when you're done,you take it out and empty it out
and you can use it over andover again.
And this is really cool becauseI didn't know that something
like this existed.
But it's actually been a gamechanger because you can wear it
for long periods of time.

(03:57):
There isn't this risk of toxicshock syndrome the way there is
with tampons that you keepinserted.
But the other thing that's verysimilar to this is the menstrual
cup.
I think this is called theKadeva cup.
This is not the Kadeva cupbrand, but it's.
I think people call it that andthey know what it is.
But this is a little bit moreof like a deeper cup thing that

(04:21):
you pull out by using this, butthis has like a suction effect
in it, so it like actually staysin place.
Which leads me to why I'm eventalking about this, and that is
that for sports, it's great.
So if you have to be outrunning for several hours at a
time which in the marathon orlonger than the marathon is
something that we do, and you'reon your period, you can use

(04:44):
these things.
So I guess I'm just kind ofdoing a little PSA of like, hey,
these exist I'm not sponsoredor anything by this by this
brand.
I don't even know what thebrand that makes these, but I
found them at Target and I'vebeen like experimenting with,
like how to use them, andthey've been a game changer for
my time of the month, and so,yeah, interesting, right, this

(05:06):
is the future.
I guess, like you know, it's2023 and people are wearing this
stuff silicone, silicone Sothat's interesting, and so, yeah
, i guess.
The other thing that I wasthinking about was on my YouTube
channel.
I had this video that's beenlike kind of getting a lot more

(05:29):
hits recently.
It's been getting like an extrahundred views a day.
It's kind of like graduallybuilding up, and that video is
called I ran 10 miles a day forthree years and this happened.
So I think this video isgetting a lot of popularity
because there are some othervideos that the YouTube
analytics have been showing mehave been like referring my
video to at the end of theirvideos And I guess, like this is

(05:53):
like a little trend of likerunning every day and these
streaks.
And when I looked at like whatdifferent things people are
searching and then finding myvideo, it's typically people are
searching running 10 miles aday or running every day, and so
I wanted to talk about what thepros and cons to running every

(06:13):
day could be.
I did run every day for a verylong time, for at least three
years, probably longer than thatbut for the sake of making that
video kind of like concise andshowing the benefits that I saw
from running 10 miles a day forthree years, i think I ran.
I think it's probably it'sprobably more than three years,

(06:35):
but I know for sure that I did,i did run every day for for
three years, but the thing is isthat I don't think I would tell
anyone to just go start runningevery single day, but I don't
think it's an impossible thingto try to do.
And some of my ideas orpointers of what I would suggest

(06:56):
to someone who's like I, wantto run every day, is to
understand that running everyday is a really hard thing to do
, even as somebody who runsreally fast and far distances.
Like running every day is a bigcommitment And you do have to
really remodel your life to workaround that.

(07:18):
But that can be really goodbecause it can kind of be coming
trenched into your routine theway it became part of my routine
.
Just like brushing my teeth,it's just something that I do
every day.
I feel like my body just startsto crave it because I'm so used
to it now.
But the thing to remember is ifyou're going to embark on
running every single day, youreally have to have to not even

(07:39):
like should, but have tounderstand the different gears
and paces.
And with that I mean you haveto just know and plan that 80%
of those miles running everysingle day of the week, 80% of
them should be at an extremelyeasy pace and no matter how far

(08:03):
you're going, just 80% of yourtotal training in a week should
be an easy pace and then 20% ofthat should be at a harder or a
little bit more of a more of a Idon't know like focused, like
workout speed type of an effort.
And the reason for this the80-20 rule is that Using the

(08:28):
easy days to kind of insulatethose hard efforts, you will
both improve your efficiency byjust getting used to running at
a very relaxed Place because youwant to get to a point where
you can run just super chill.
I understand that when youfirst start running it always
feels hard all the time.
I actually really relate tothat even just now, getting back
into shape, getting ready formy Marathon this fall.

(08:50):
I feel like every run is hard,even if the paces are easier and
stuff.
But this idea that you can runat an easy Relax pace for most
of the time and then push it forsome of the time, and so that
could even look like just doingone hard day a week or the end
of two runs a week, doing aLittle bit of a harder effort at

(09:12):
the second half of your run.
But it's so important to havethis idea of gears.
I didn't totally wrap my headaround that when I first got
into running, but I think now Ithink that that should be like
the first and foremost mostimportant thing that you think
about if you are gonna try torun every day.
And I think that the otherthing about these streaks and
running every day is that theycan be Good, but they can also

(09:36):
induce stress.
And I like the idea of likerunning the day that you're in,
or run the mile You're in on theday that you're in, instead of
thinking ahead of like I have tokeep running every single day,
just run today and then see ifyou feel like running tomorrow.
That's kind of how I approachrecovery from Alcoholism or this
like this notion that one dayat a time, like don't think

(09:58):
about where you're gonna be nextChristmas or at a wedding in a
Few months, think about whereyou are today and just hit the
pillow at the night withoutdrinking.
I feel that way with runningwhere it's like just run today
And if you don't feel likerunning tomorrow you don't have
to, but maybe you will feel likeit and that kind of takes the
pressure off and So I kind oflike to think about That and so

(10:20):
if you're gonna run every day, idon't think there's anything
wrong with that, but just makesure that you're doing enough
variation in the paces to keepit pretty easy Most of the time,
with some hard efforts, to makesure that you're still
improving with form and not justdoing only easy all the time
And not getting too caught up inhow far, because, like, while I

(10:40):
did 10 miles a day for threeyears, i would say it's, that's
not that's.
That's like a pretty extremeapproach and I mean I'm I like
to go big with everything that Ido, but I feel like that's a
lot.
So if you wanted to do a mile aday, every day, that would
still be a lot and really cool.
So just start small and, yeah,what if it's even five minutes a

(11:03):
day?
that could be cool.
I'm just setting the stage,laying the bricks down for a
really positive routine.
So the last thing that I want totalk about is ultra marathons.
People are always very curiousabout ultra and this idea of,
like ultra marathoning and stuff, and while I'm still focused on
just the marathon right now, ihave touched ultra marathon

(11:26):
distance stuff in my day.
In fact, i think I actually gotinto running more on the ultra
side of things than on theregular side of things and, if
you don't know, there's a bigdifference between, like,
regular runners and ultramarathoners and just like how
they approach stuff and I findthat it's less speed focused and

(11:46):
more just sheer endurance.
When it comes to ultramarathoning and just how long
and like can you just go forever?
and that's cool.
I think there's a time and aplace for that and I definitely
have explored with that in myown life.
For reference, i've run 76 milesstraight on a track just ready
set go and did 76 miles on a hotday and that was just.

(12:10):
It wasn't about speed, it wasabout just this head getting
inside my head and just likeexploring and just taking in
like this uncomfortable feelingall day long.
But the I've done like 30 miledistance anything longer than a
marathon is technicallyconsidered an ultra marathon but
I've done random 30 milers orlike I guess it's.
50 k's is what they're morecommonly referred to, as that

(12:34):
was just during the pandemic forfun.
I had so much time to kill, soI would just be like you know
what I feel like running 30miles today and I would just get
out there and just go.
And the thing about theseultras is that I really learned
the value of slowing down andjust going at quote, unquote
forever pace and just juststaying on my feet and kind of.
It's like you kind of get intothis like altered state.

(12:55):
We're not going too hard,you're not going too easy,
because it never feels easy,you're going for so long, but
you're just like at thatGoldilocks, just right place and
I I really like the ultradistance.
I think eventually, after I'mdone with my marathoning days of
like really trying to go afterthese fast time qualifying

(13:16):
marathons and hopefully get tothe Olympic trials, i think
after I'm done with that stuff,i want to play more with ultra
and see what can be done withthat.
I've always had this idea oflike the 24 hour track race
which I think USATF holds, andjust trying to see how many
miles I can run in 24 hours on atrack.

(13:36):
If I could do 76 and 17 hours,which was a lot of crawling at
the end I was so, so on my on myhands and knees I kind of
wonder how many miles I could doin a day.
I wonder what the record is too, because I feel like, yeah, i'm
sure Camille Herron has thatrecord, but but yeah, ultra
marathoning it's kind of more ofa heady thing and I think it's

(13:57):
like, really, it's reallycerebral and doesn't take the
same kind of specific planningof discipline, just speed work,
but it's more just planning onjust time and just having so
much time.
And back when I was trying torun these really heroic
distances that are longer thanthe marathon, i would listen to

(14:18):
a lot of audio books, which I'vebeen doing again recently.
Now, just that I'm just trainingnormally.
But it's kind of a differentthing to listen to books while
you're running versus music,because I feel like music is
very like fires you up andyou're just like, yeah, like I'm
on the tempo up going fast, butlike books, it like forces you
to kind of have that.
I call it NPR pace because,like, when I listen to NPR, it's

(14:41):
the same effect where it justkeeps you like in a certain kind
of chill where you're not likegoing to be running five minute
miles listening to NPR or anaudio book.
So, yeah, so that's my hot takeon the new world of
menstruation products, which Iwas completely oblivious to
running every single day, andultra marathons and what I think

(15:04):
of them, and that's what we'vegot on deck today.
But if you want to find me onInstagram, i'm at Lucie Beatrix
L-U-C-I-E-B-E-A-T-R-I-X.
And until next time, just befast, just win.
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