{"id":26969,"date":"2025-03-04T15:30:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T15:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/paula-radcliffe-perimenopause-made-tokyo-marathon-even-sweeter\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T15:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T15:30:39","slug":"paula-radcliffe-perimenopause-made-tokyo-marathon-even-sweeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/paula-radcliffe-perimenopause-made-tokyo-marathon-even-sweeter\/","title":{"rendered":"Paula Radcliffe: Perimenopause made Tokyo Marathon even &#8216;sweeter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Paula Radcliffe says the experience of going through the perimenopause made completing the Tokyo Marathon even &#8220;sweeter&#8221;. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 51-year-old finished <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/cn48q9z9x4eo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">in less than three hours on Sunday,<\/a> her first marathon since retiring in 2015 aged 40. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The perimenopause typically starts a few years before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/menopause\/symptoms\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">menopause<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> and can cause symptoms such as hot flushes, heavy bleeding and heart palpitations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked about the differences compared to running during her competitive career, Radcliffe told BBC Radio 5 Live: &#8220;It&#8217;s very different. Not only the effects of perimenopause and managing the fatigue and fluctuations that come with that, energy and muscle recovery wise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When the children were smaller it was a little bit easier. There are lots of things to juggle now and it&#8217;s no longer my career, now it&#8217;s a hobby like lots of people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I really take my hat off to everyone who juggles the training with a career, and family life around that, because it&#8217;s a different way &#8211; but it makes the achievement when you cross that finish line a little bit sweeter.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The menopause, which signals the end of a woman&#8217;s reproductive years, typically occurs around the age of 51 but for some it can happen earlier. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The age at which the menopause occurs can be impacted by a number of factors, including treatment for other conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hormone levels change during the menopause &#8211; most significantly oestrogen, which controls the menstrual cycle and contributes to a number of other bodily processes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Radcliffe, who gave birth to her first child in 2007 and her second in 2010, is aiming to complete the six major marathons by running in Boston next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She ran London, New York, Chicago and Berlin during her career, before competing in Tokyo last week. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/c4g0kwyve7vo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Radcliffe says the experience of going through the perimenopause made completing the Tokyo Marathon even &#8220;sweeter&#8221;. The 51-year-old finished in less than three hours on Sunday, her first marathon since retiring in 2015 aged 40. The perimenopause typically starts a few years before the menopause, external and can cause symptoms such as hot flushes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26971,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26969\/revisions\/26971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}