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Sasha Gollish, a 41-year-old Canadian elite runner, can reflect on a precise moment, five years ago, when she knew her body was going through some things. She was in the call room for the 1500 meters at the Payton Jordan invitational track meet, an annual event at Stanford University, when she unexpectedly got her period.
She didn’t just start menstruating, though. It was more of a gush.
“It was just like a fire hose that opened up,” Gollish says.
Typically, athletes aren’t supposed to leave the call room before they line up for a race. But an elderly male race volunteer could see it was an emergency. He uttered, “I can’t help you,” as Gollish responded, “No sir, you cannot help me. I need to go and change my clothes.”
“He just said, ‘You do what you need to do,’” she says.
Surprisingly, Gollish ended up having a decent race, until she had about…
