Breaking taboo of periods: British woman runs marathon without sanitary pad

However, this runner deliberately ran the race without a tampon to bring awareness to women in less developed countries that don’t have access to feminine products.

Silly girl. It seems the only ones that feel periods are something shameful or embarrassing are girls like you.

“I got my flow the night before the London Marathon and it was extremely painful”, Kiran said in a recent post for Medium.

Of course, this is a very real worry that we imagine lots of women go through, whether it involves a marathon, or just a routine trip down to the gym.

Kiran wrote of her thought process and admitted to almost dropping out of the marathon.

The marathoner completed the race in 49 minutes and 11 seconds. A and Thievery Corporation-also notes that her decision was made to encourage women to not be embarrassed about their periods. She even posed for pictures with other runners. Once I started bleeding, I felt kind of like, ‘Yeah! “F*ck you!”, the 26-year-old said. I did, ” Kiran told Cosmopolitan.

According to UNICEF, an estimated one in 10 women in Africa miss school during their periods. Earlier this year in March a young artist named Elonë took to the streets of Germany and displayed (clean) menstrual pads on street corners with a goal of “putting social issues into perspective”. I anxious that a tampon might have the same effect… “I could definitely choose to participate in this norm at the expense of my own comfort and just deal with it quietly”. But would I bleed freely in a public place to advocate for it?

After sharing the story on her blog in the aftermath of the race, the former M.I.

However, Bellyrina wrote: ‘I don’t know about you, but I don’t find this feminist.

‘If there’s one person society can’t eff with, it’s a marathon runner.

She further added that many women still don’t have access to sanitary napkins and tampons.

Sounds slightly extreme, but Kiran decided to document the experience on her personal blogging site, in the hope that it would raise some awareness and make a difference for women all around the world.

What do you think about the marathon without a tampon?