Posted on 07/19/2019 6:07:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The day before ultrarunner and obstacle course racing superstar Amelia Boone hit “publish” on the blog post that echoed through the endurance-sports world and beyond last week, she almost didn’t go through with it.
“I was like, why am I doing this? I’m not recovered,” she told Runner’s World afterward.
Even after her message went live, she spent some time second-guessing her motivations.
But ultimately, Boone said, the predominant emotion she felt now that her 20-year experience with anorexia has become public knowledge is relief.
“It’s honestly like having a hundred-pound weight vest lifted off,” she said.
Now, she no longer had to keep an important part of her life secret. She could end what she called her “selective vulnerability,” speaking a more complete truth on a topic about which she’s otherwise been forthcoming—her repeated stress fractures.
“I had this feeling of massive shame and guilt, being like—I know the reasons why I’ve had four bone injuries,” she said.
Of course, she can’t be positive of their cause, but she strongly suspects something called “relative energy deficiency in sport” or RED-S—a mismatch between intake and expenditure—was a major contributing factor: “I’ve done everything else, yet I still keep breaking.”
And, she could give others struggling with similar issues an open space, aligning their stories with those of an athlete who showed her strength not by declaring victory over anorexia, but by being brave enough to admit she’s still getting there.
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No one cares.
I agree, she can suck rocks for all I care.
Best wishes to Ms. Boone. It’s very likely her honesty will be helpful to someone else.
I agree.
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