She told me recently that she ran a ten-miler the day before her daughter was born. “There were definitely people who gave me second glances at the gym,” Brown said. “They said, ‘Are you sure you should do that?’ ” She continued, “I was amazed how during my pregnancy my body knew what to do. I kept thinking how women are strong, how we’re built to be able to have kids, but also be built to do so much more. It’s not that long ago that people thought a woman’s uterus would fall out if she ran too far.”
.. he’s heard stories of athletes in former Soviet countries who, during the Cold War heyday of sports, would intentionally get pregnant, hoping to capitalize on an increased count of red blood cells, and then abort the pregnancies after competing. “It was almost like a natural blood doping,”