The 42-year-old ultra-marathon runner has broken numerous world records with the aid of new research that is giving us a better understanding of women’s physiology.
On March 6, a blue-skied winter’s morning in the Coachella Valley, it was nearing 25 degrees when Camille Herron and nine other women set out around the teal waters of Lake Cahuilla, a 4.11 kilometre palm-fringed loop at the base of the Santa Rosa Mountains.
Herron did it amid perimenopause, powered by naps every four hours as well as Coca-Cola spiders, tacos, tea, pumpkin pie, Guinness non-alcoholic draught , bacon, chocolate ice cream bars, crackers and cheese. She sang Led Zeppelin, Beyoncé and Madonna to herself and focused on the rhythm of her breath and feet moving over the ashen gravel path for an average of 150 kilometres each day.
“Everyone thought your career was done after a baby,” he says. “We now have tonnes of data to show that it can be the start of your career in some instances.”
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