She Helps Postpartum Runners Return to the Sport
Runner's World
|Issue 03, 2022
COLETTE BERRY CALLS her first post-pregnancy run a disaster.
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COLETTE BERRY
AGE 37 FROM NEW YORK CITY
WHY I RUN TO BREAK MY OWN PRs AND HELP OTHER PARENTS BREAK THEIRS AFTER GIVING BIRTH
Just six weeks after giving birth to her daughter, Delphine, Berry set out on a three-mile run. But her core wasn't strong enough to control her bladder, and her pelvic floor was unprepared for the impact. Nevertheless, she followed the vague advice of her OB-GYN and continued to moderately jog after those fateful first miles. "I made a bad situation worse," she says.
It was the lowest point in a life full of running highs. Since 2004, Berry has run multiple marathons and triathlons, even completing an Ironman one month before becoming pregnant in 2015.
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