If you’ve ever experienced leaking pee as a female, you’re not alone. In fact, up to 50% of women leak pee at some point in their lives. Leaking pee, also known as urinary incontinence is tied to decreased quality of life and can significantly affects a woman’s social life. Experiencing urinary leakage is also a top reason why women stop participating in an exercise routine. While leaking pee can feel embarrassing, it’s actually very common and often treatable.

Frequent urination is something that has been quoted to affect up to 40% of women. Often times women interchange frequent urination and urinary urgency or overactive bladder, however the conditions are very different.

Urine leakage while running is a common concern for runners. Some studies report that to 40% of runners struggle with urinary incontinence. Many choose to just wear a pad and continue running, however we caution anyone against this as this can lead to compensations and further problems down the road. You should never leak when you run and if you experience leakage, you should stop running at the mileage point where you experience leakage. A quick solution, might be to take a small break mid-run and then try to resume running only continuing if you can do so without leakage.