Imagine running a gruelling 100-kilometre trail race through the rugged terrain of northern Wales.
Did we already lose you? Well, double-knot your sneakers, because now imagine doing it six months postpartum, stopping to breastfeed your baby at aid stations along the way and still winning the whole darn thing.
That’s what Canadian ultrarunner Stephanie Case did at the Ultra-Trail Snowdonia on May 17, where she placed first among women with a time of 16:53:22 and made headlines around the world for the viral race photos where she’s breastfeeding her six-month-old daughter, Pepper.
The rest of the competitors were forced to run with heavy uncomfortable breasts.
Sounds fair.
That’s one tough momma.
This has to be more than just an ultramarathon, because 17 hours for a winner is a long time. A normal marathon is 42km, and takes 3 or so hours for a winner.
Given that this was in Snowdonia, it looks like it was some kind of grueling trail race up a mountain.
An ultramarathon is anything longer than 42 km.
I think they were commenting on how a marathon that’s two and a half times longer than a typical marathon took almost 6 times as long to complete. Not that the definition of ultramarathon is somehow in doubt.
Indeed. A marathon is 42 km.
Ultramarathons are most often run over cross country type terrain and very mountainous areas not on pavement or track and involve pit stops for eating and sometimes sleeping. This accounts for the time differences.
Snowdonia sounds like a made up country in a Marvel movie.
I was thinking Hallmark
