{"id":321523,"date":"2026-02-28T08:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321523\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:50:10","slug":"social-media-often-shows-athletes-as-the-leanest-version-of-themselves-but-thats-not-always-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321523\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Social media often shows athletes as the leanest version of themselves, but that\u2019s not always the best\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nGalway 800m runner Emma Moore is hoping to build on her return to form at the National indoors after finding a balance to compete with RED syndrome\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emma Moore of the Galway City Harriers will be hoping to boost her chances of qualifying for the World Indoors when she competes in the 800m at the 123.ie National Indoor Championships in Abbotstown this weekend. Photo: Sam Barnes\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c68b5b3f-4723-4cd8-a551-7d2c65cdad71.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Emma Moore of the Galway City Harriers will be hoping to boost her chances of qualifying for the World Indoors when she competes in the 800m at the 123.ie National Indoor Championships in Abbotstown this weekend. Photo: Sam Barnes\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Among the myriad things that can derail a promising career, under-fuelling is a recidivist offender. Whether it comes about by accident or through a conscious choice to slim down, the result for athletes can often be the same: illness, injury or a regression in race results. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For Emma Moore, it happened unintentionally. The Galway native was in her first year at DCU, running here, there and everywhere as she juggled increased training with her degree in PE and Biology. She wasn\u2019t aware just how much fuel her body needed to keep up with that workload \u2013 until it broke down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galway 800m runner Emma Moore is hoping to build on her return to form at the National indoors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16452,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-321523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cathal-dennehy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}