A Woman Got Her Period the Night Before a Marathon and Decided to Bleed Freely

"I realized that the fact that the real decision for me was about prioritizing somebody else's comfort and protecting somebody else's eyes over my own ability to run the marathon . . . I felt that that represented a problem. That if I did what was best for me in that moment, that would be a big deal, and I didn't like that. So I said f*ck it."