There's never a good headline that includes the word "influencer"
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Remindes me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication Dear friends, please don’t forget to add some electrolytes when you’re about to go in to extremes.
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You are the one out of touch.
She improved her best over 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) to about 36½ minutes and clocked 1 hour, 22 minutes, 1 second at the New Balance Half Marathon in March
First off, this was a half marathon.
Second, she has obviously been training hard, and well to reach those times at the amateur level.
It’s terrible that this happened, and it’s shameful that you are on here trying to claim this is the natural result of running.
Did she, by chance, peddle any stereoids or similar on her influencer job?
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"Influencer"... How much of this was because of unhealthy expectations for "popular" or "likeable" people? She doesn't look like a healthy runner to me. She looks like a twig of a, "popular" person. Shame on anyone who expects noteworthy performance out of anyone who isn't already a world-class athlete.
Anyone familiar with modern biology knows constant stressors and constant exertion is a recipe for death. Social media does not. Social media never does.
Never let randos determine how hard to push yourself. Ever.
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