The Lane 9 Podcast

Dec 12 2024 30 ep. 46 mins 128

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Lane 9 is working to improve the menstrual health of female-bodied athletes. We share your stories, and chat with practitioners and coaches who are changing the game.

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Georgetown Athlete Fiona Max on Performance Anxiety, Owning Your Training, and Recognizing Perfectionism

Dec 12 2024 50 mins

" Own what you're doing. And, if you're really riding a wave of inconsistency or doubt, remember that you're always on your own side." Georgetown athlete Fiona Max, running Cross Country and Track & Field in her last year of NCAA eligibility joins us on the Lane 9 Podcast. Fiona competed for, and completed her undergraduate degree at Princetown University from 2020-2024, then tr

Rachel Drake Wants to Share the Struggle, and her JFK 50-Miler Course Record

Dec 05 2024 56 mins

Rachel Drake is a professional trail runner with Nike, co-host of The Trail Network Podcast, mom of 2-year old Lew, and a newly-minted medical resident in Salt Lake City, UT. A few weekends ago, she ran, won, and broke the course record for women at the JFK 50 Miler in northern Virginia—a huge accomplishment on its own, but especially considering all of the above. We talked to R

Dr. Sarah Lesko on How the NCAA is Failing Female Athletes

Nov 21 2024 54 mins

Dr. Sarah Lesko is MANY things—a runner, parent, practitioner, and a staunch advocate for female athletes of all ages, devoting her work to getting and keeping girls in sports. We couldn't have been more excited to chat with her, getting the story of her days as a collegiate athlete, why she took more than 15 years off of running and how that actually felt, what happened when she

FED Collaborative's Mel Lodge on REDs Prevalence in Collegiate Athletics

Nov 14 2024 53 mins

Melissa (Mel) Lodge was a collegiate track and field athlete who had multiple bone stress injuries, and a few providers in her corner that knew exactly what to do to help her navigate REDs. She took her personal experiences and funneled her drive into studying the prevalence of and interventions that may actually help prevent and treat REDs in all levels of sport. She takes time ou

Elite Marathoner Emma Kertesz on Durability, Big Goals with a Career, and Knowing When to Rest

Oct 31 2024 56 mins

Emma Kertesz won the 2024 Bayshore Marathon in 2:37, a three and a half minute PR for the seasoned marathoner and Boulder CO resident. She's from Toledo OH, and ran for the University of Toledo. While she describes her collegiate athletic experiences as "tricky", she had a few lucky experiences with a supportive assistant coach that helped her steer clear of disordered eating habit

When It's OK to Run Through Injuries and Her Experience as a Collegiate Pole Vaulter with Eliana Lin DPT

Oct 10 2024 54 mins

We talked to Ann Arbor-based physical therapist, Eliana Lin DPT, about her experience as a collegiate athlete, completing her doctorate in physical therapy with clinical rotations in Division 1 Track and Field programs, and her clinical practice philosophies on strength training for runners, and running while rehabbing some injuries (if it’s safe, of course!). Bonus (IMO): This e

Mel Sulaver RDN on Losing a Sport and Big Uterus Energy

Sep 19 2024 42 mins

Melanie (Mel) Sulaver RDN, aka Nutrition by Mel (@nutritionbymel), is here to talk about her sport story from soccer to running, parenting to postpartum, and everything in between. We chat about what happened during her collegiate soccer career that led her to leaving the team, and how that was an early lesson in advocating for herself and her own wellbeing. Mel is now a sports di

Serena Marie RDN on Adolescent Body Image in Sport and Amenorrhea

Aug 29 2024 42 mins

Dietitian Serena Stewart, aka Serena Marie per her IG account, joins Lane 9 Project to talk about her experiences with adolescent body changes, how it impacted her body image, and how it led her to running. While her early experiences in sport were part of an effort to change her body, her relationship to running has evolved and changed. She recorded this episode with us at 37 week

21. Heidi Strickler RD, Ultrarunning after ED Treatment and Athlete Identity Work

Aug 08 2024 45 mins

On this episode we talk with Heidi Strickler, a dietitian who checked herself into eating disorder treatment in 2020 (at Opal) after years of struggling and running through it. Heidi planned on being a collegiate soccer player but transitioned to Track and Field, and then Cross Country, and has been a competitive and accomplished runner ever since. She talks about the many years of

20. Nancy Boyd DPT Impacts of low estrogen, and pelvic floor health for athletes

Jul 25 2024 57 mins

"I did not have a period. It's not unrelated that then I had a series of five stress fractures." Nancy Boyd, former D1 collegiate runner and now DPT with a practice specializing in providing pelvic floor physical therapy, joins the Lane 9 Project for this episode. Nancy shares her experience with late puberty onset, i.e. primary amenorrhea, at the age of 20 competing in D1 athleti