The two-time U.S. champion’s memoir, Good for a Girl, details inequities women face in running—and how coaches and athletes are working toward change.
, where she had a popular monthly column. Fleshman exhibited a knack for giving words to what readers and runners, especially women, knew in their guts to be true.Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man’s WorldFleshman, now 41, looks back unflinchingly on her career in running, from her early days in middle school racing the boys to the waning days of her pro career, when she went from U.S. title to foot surgery to the top of the podium again.
“The girl across from me was using the other tongs to fill her entire plate with only lettuce,” Fleshman writes. “She drizzled a thin zigzag of fat-free Italian dressing with careful precision, as if an alarm might go off if she drew outside the lines.” Another ate only a dry roll and a couple of cherry tomatoes. “These picky eaters sometimes looked too thin to my newly sensitive eye, but not always, which I found more unnerving.
in her foot, causing her to miss the Olympic Trials. Several weeks later, the foot still hurt. An X-ray showed she had broken the bone straight through.When Fleshman graduated from Stanford, she had won five individual NCAA titles and been All-American 15 times. Stanford head coach Vin Lananna advocated for her as she talked to shoe companies and agents. He told her to ask agents what they thought she was worth.
Fleshman tried to represent herself and asked for $60,000 per year. But companies wouldn’t deal with her; they wanted to talk to agents. So she hired Ray Flynn, who promptly signed her to her first Nike deal—worth $60,000.
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