US Men’s Hockey needs a(nother) remedial course on respect for their female colleagues (Catherine)

Turning 3D (Cate)

I Am NOT Sick … Except I Am (Mina)

Nordic Combined: Why Women are Excluded from This Winter Sport (Sam)

Nat remembers her gran (Nat)

I love coffee, I love tea; when it comes to dementia risk, they love me (Catherine)

Catherine hates before/after pictures (with one exception) (Catherine)

What more dangerous animal do you want to be? (Catherine)

Nat’s winter biking is not happening (Nat)

Fit is a Feminist bloggers: our favourite non-alcoholic drinks (Nat)

(To be clear , these aren’t the most-read posts in 2025. They’re the posts from 2025 that were read the most. For all time most read in 2025, check out this post!)

Gen X is 45-60 years olds, who look 30-40 years old, but mentally are still teenagers (Nicole)

What to do if your mostly-benign cult-adjacent sport sides with the bigots? (Guest post) (Alexis)

Thin being in again and the rise of authoritarianism (Sam)

Why the conversation about “trans people in sports” isn’t about trans people in sports (Cate)

Nat shares a cycling moment that did not feel safe (Nat)

Broken Heart (Diane)

You never know when you’ll perform your last heavy deadlift (Sam)

Are you curious about Randonneuring but not quite ready for a 200 km ride? Sign up for a Populaire! (Nat)

Boston Strong (Alison)

Is a 55+ breakfast actually a thing? Catherine thinks definitely NOT (Catherine)

(These are the ten posts that were read the most in 2025, regardless of when they were written. For the ten most read posts of 2025, look here.)

The Shape of an Athlete (Tracy)

Need to style your hair while fat? Look no further (Catherine)

Crotch shots, upskirts, sports reporting, and the objectification of female athletes’ bodies (Sam)

Yoga poses I simply can’t do, and what I do instead (Catherine)

The Unbearable Lightness of Brie Larson (Alison)

The MAMILs have met their match, the OWLs! (Sam)

The sit-rise test: trying to get up to save my life (Catherine)

Sam’s speed book review: The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly (Sam)

Gen X is 45-60 years olds, who look 30-40 years old, but mentally are still teenagers (Nicole)

Bike seats, speed, and sexual depravity (Sam)

Sam is thinking about fatigue, training, pushing yourself, and the stories we tell ourselves (Sam)

Bring back the President’s Physical Fitness Test? Uh, just no. Why not? Read on (Catherine)

Eating dessert alone (Mina)

The Miranda July Challenge (Alison)

Toronto cycling friends, join us for the Spinning Wheels Grand Finale! (Sam)

The front porch as liminal fitness space (Sam)

Nat loves her strength training early progress (Nat)

Noticing What I Eat (Diane)

I Got to Use My Powers for Good! (Diane)

What is the “great lock in” fitness trend and OMG is October now the new January? (Sam)

The most read post this month was our group review of Nyad on Netflix. It was a sickly weekend but a lovely one with Sarah and me visiting Catherine in Boston. We recommend the movie and we also recommend catching up with old friends over Middle Eastern food, throat lozenges, walks around Walden Pond, and meeting new babies for the first time…New England autumn is awfully lovely.

Alison Conway ran the NYC marathon and then blogged about it for us. Her post which touched on running, but also on the subway and community and connections, was the second most read post in November. Did you miss it? You should go read it!

Awhile back (in 2020) I got annoyed at the appearance of my Zwift avatar and blogged about the absence of representation of large muscular women’s bodies in general. That post was the third most read this month.

Tracy’s 2013 (!) post The Shape of an Athlete is also on the theme of the diversity of athletic bodies and it’s still rocking along, this month as our fourth most read post.

I think Christine’s post on finishing 2023 soft struck a note with many of us around the blog. I loved it. I needed. Thanks Christine. It’s a great message. And it was the fifth most read post in November.

The sixth most read post in November was Cate’s classic, I’m 53 and a half and I’m still menstruating: is this a good thing?

Another classic, Yoga poses I simply can’t do, and what I do instead by Catherine, was our seventh most read post.

Cate’s Grief in Three Movements was eighth.

Is Enough Abundance? by Mina was ninth.

Guest blogger Cheryl wrote our tenth most read post, Racing at the IRONMAN World Championship in Kona.

Cate’s still menstruating post was the most read post in July.

In 2019 Catherine wrote about yoga poses she can’t do and what she does instead. Yoga poses was the second most read post on the blog in July.

Catherine and Pata test ride an adult e-trike and aren’t pleased was third.

Pain and the Human Playground (a mini review) by Sam was fourth.

Tracy’s 2013 post The shape of an athlete was the 5th most read post in July. Wild!

Sixth was Nat’s post on finding cycling bibs that fit.

Our seventh most read post was Sam’s post about heading into her last decade of work.

Leaving the university gym by Sam was our eighth most read post in July.

Nicole wrote about the TikTok Girl dinner trend and that was the ninth most read post in July.

Finally, our 10th most read post was On being a life-long clumsy/klutzy athlete (emphasis on the athlete part) by Catherine.