The former US 5000m champion believes that elite sports are guilty of erasing women’s bodies, leading to unnecessary problems for competitors “If males got boobs during puberty there would be a free ...

Lauren Fleshman’s debut book, Good for a Girl, has been awarded the 2023 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, becoming the first book written by a woman about women’s sports to win the prize in ...

Lauren Fleshman agonized as she was deciding whether to end her career as a professional distance runner—but not because she was nervous about money. While amassing an impressive array of podi­um ...

Lauren Fleshman has always had a voice in running. She was emboldened, certainly, by her strong performances, which started early: Her senior year of high school, in 1998, Fleshman was the runner up ...

, which helps explain her latest leap into the unknown. In the past several months, the 31-year-old distance runner has put her athletic career on hold and , quit the elite training group Oregon Track ...

Runner Lauren Fleshman and her husband, triathlete Jesse Thomas, are the right kind of picky. For them it’s about knowing when to treat yourself to the best. “I’m not a dieter or extreme eater,” ...

Des Linden won the Boston Marathon on April 16, the pinnacle of her already impressive running career. And while she's still a long way from retirement, she already has her next venture launched: ...

She won national championships but her career likely suffered because she made herself too thin. Now she is coaching an all-female running team to make sure others don’t suffer the same fate. Credit..

Every other Monday, Beth Fleshman totes a supply bag with her mustache-patterned hair clippers and bright, colorful scissors to the Columbus Ronald McDonald House. In a little teal room with salon ...