About this episode

The episode discusses RED-S and low energy availability through personal experiences of injury and recovery.

This week, after a Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift debrief, Corrine Malcolm and Hillary Allen take on RED-S and low energy availability through Hillary’s own recent experience with injury and recovery. What started as overreaching and under-recovery became a bigger lesson in how training stress, work stress, life changes, sleep, fueling, and healing all draw from the same finite pool of energy. They talk about: why RED-S can affect athletes at any size why it isn’t synonymous with disordered eating how low energy availability can slow injury recovery and why even athletes who understand the science can still miss the signs in themselves. It’s a candid, practical conversation about listening sooner, fueling enough, and learning that stress is stress — no matter where it comes from. Forbes Article: Why It Took 119 Years To Build A Tour de France For Women Follow Us: FeistyFest Details and Registration: https://livefeisty.com/events/feisty-fest/ Courses and Coaching: https://livefeisty.com/courses/ @feisty_media @trail.society Support our Partners: Use the code FEISTY2026 for 20% off at https://www.tifosioptics.com ProBio: Use code Trail20 for 20%-off orders (30%-off + free…

People in this episode

Host: Keely Henninger

Guests: Corrine Malcolm, Hillary Allen

Topics covered

• RED-S
• low energy availability
• injury recovery
• training stress
• fueling
• athlete health

Keywords

• RED-S
• energy availability
• injury recovery
• athlete health
• training stress
• fueling
• sleep

Sponsors

Tifosi Optics, ProBio, rabbit

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Forbes, FeistyFest

Products: ProBio

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