Lindsay Crouse

In January 2020 she described being inspired by a new generation of female athletes, and deciding to begin training so she could compete for a spot on the USA's Olympic team. She said she regarded Shalane Flanagan, the first woman to win a NYC marathon in decades, in 2017, and Des Linden, who won the Boston marathon in 2018, as her "team captains". Like Flanagan and Linden, Crouse made her renewed effort in her mid-thirties. She said she had never imagined she could reach the level she reached. She needed to run a marathon in under 2 hours and 45 minutes. Her best time was 2 hours and 53 minutes - better than her times in college, but short of making the team.

In May 2019 Crouse reported on Nike's lack of maternity support for the female athletes it sponsors.

In November, 2019, Crouse produced a video interview, and wrote an op-ed, about Mary Cain, entitled I Was the Fastest Girl in America, Until I Joined Nike, that was critical of Nike, and its chief coach, Alberto Salazar. 17-year-old Cain was courted to join Nike's team. In theory, Nike's sponsorship of athletes was encouraging youth to seek empowerment, through sport. Crouse helped Cain how she felt bad coaching, from Nike ruined her competitive prospects, and caused her considerable mental distress. Nike's coaches pushed the young athletes Nike sponsored to lose weight. Crouse wrote that the pressure Nike put upon Gracie Gold, "the only other female athlete featured in the last Nike video ad Cain appeared in", triggered an eating disorder so profound that Gold considered taking her own life. Following the publication of the article Nike suspended Salazar.

She helped produce the 2017 documentary 4.1 Miles, which won an award at the 2017 Peabody awards.

Crouse first wrote about the choices faced by female athletes who also wanted to become mothers in October 2014. She wrote about how female athletes faced pressure to put their babies at risk and continue training and competing, while pregnant, and put their post-natal recoveries at risk.