![]() ![]() Linden wrote about runners "limiting their daily intake to a few apple slices or sticking their fingers down their throats." She explained that disordered eating and dangerous habits "were viewed as a necessary passage, something you did if you were 'serious'" on women's teams. I wasn't even cognizant of it prior to that." "I remember getting on campus and just noticing it fairly quickly. "That was definitely my first exposure to it, right as I stepped onto the college campus," Linden tells Yahoo Life. She noted that "NCAA Division I women's track culture was clearly struggling with a stick-figure body image ideal." (Yahoo Life reached out to the NCAA for comment but did not receive a response.) ![]() In her new book, Choosing to Run, Linden reflects on the moment she discovered that her Arizona State University track teammates would go to dangerous lengths to run faster and get lighter quickly. ![]() While Des Linden is now a Boston Marathon winner and Olympian, the 39-year-old running icon is recalling the pressure fellow athletes felt to manipulate their bodies to win in her younger days. It Figures is Yahoo Life's body image series, delving into the journeys of influential and inspiring figures as they explore what body confidence, body neutrality and self-love mean to them. (Photo: Getty Images designed by Yahoo Life) Des Linden recalls challenging body image standards in her sport. ![]()
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