What women want…

It’s perplexed men for eternity. Some would say the answers have always been right there. I spoke to Christine Yu, journalist and author of 2023’s Up To Speed about why the answers still aren't clear.

Over the past year, I’ve received a few negative comments, but the one that sticks with me the most is a man who asked why I write about women so much. I didn’t answer him, but it did make me think.

From a personal perspective, I enjoy writing about things that might help me understand the world better. I try to speak to and write about people who experience life differently to me, whether they’re running thousands of miles or suffering miscarriages and mastectomies. From a pure data perspective, less than a quarter of my articles were focused on women.

He actually made me think that I wanted and maybe needed to read and write about women more. What an idiot.

When I started this newsletter last March,

Christine Yu

was one of the first cohort of other runner/writers I happened upon. The first post of Christine’s that I read was about her myriad injuries but it ended w…