Book of the Month: Good For A Girl

Lauren Fleshman and her husband Jesse are the couple behind Picky Bars, a performance bar that is also real food. In addition to being a professional athlete, business owner, and author, she’s also a mother of two young children.

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GOOD FOR A GIRL

BY LAUREN FLESHMAN

With the new year comes resolutions. Many of us strive to be active runners and there’s no better time than the beginning of the year to attempt the feat. Lauren Fleshman, the author of Good For A Girl and avid runner, has grown up in the running world. She is one of the most decorated collegiate athletes of all time and a national champion as a pro. Lauren use to be a major face of women’s running for Nike before backing the women-based brand Oiselle, and now coaches elite young female runners. She has seen firsthand how our sports systems, originally designed by men, for men and boys, has failed young women as much as it has attempted to empower them. In Good For A Girl, Lauren describes how she fell in love with running as a girl and pushed her limits to succeed to only succumb to devastating injuries and a daring fight for a better way for female athletes. Fleshman and women everywhere are waking up to the reality that they are running, playing, and competing in a world that wasn’t initially made for them, but they refuse to accept those terms. Lauren tells her story through this riveting novel while also sharing the research she discovered on the physiology and psychology of young athletes of all genders. She is using her platform to be the voice of the often-silent female athletes of our generation.

Good For A Girl is a joyful love letter to the running life and a personal narrative of growth and change for a young girl who loves to run.

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