Who directs the world? Moms.
A new mother won an ultramarathon, even with the stop to breastfeed her newborn three times.
Stephanie Case, 42, came to the first place in a 100 -kilometer race in Wales on May 17.
The Canadian woman living in Chamonix, France, sat in three different points during the Ultra-Trail Snowdonia in Eryri National Park to breastfeed her six-month-old daughter. It was his first post-part race, according to NPR.
After a three -year break of competing, three IVF rounds and two abortions, he was excited to return to the race with his baby next to him.
And all this excitement should have increased because it was promoted faster than any of the other women of the course.
“Well, it was a surprise,” Case wrote on Instagram. “I won?!?”
The runner did not know he had placed first until after crossing the finish line because he had started the race 30 minutes after the first group of competitors.
He got a special permission to pause to breastfeed, in a condition that he could not accept help during the stops, so he did.
Case’s couple took their baby to 20, 50 and 80 kilometers control points and handed the little one for a few minutes to feed. The mother would go back in place and continue to run after her baby was fed. He paid more attention to his fuel intake and the feeding program than in his time.
“During the race, I was between 80 and 100 grams of carbohydrates per hour,” he told NPR. “And I kept it up to 65 kilometers, and then I had to throw -a little bit because I was quite nausea. And then I went up again and I did it again at 95k.”
“It was when I started arriving actually nausea “.
And this Welsh course is not a flat plain.
“It’s not what you could think of as a typical running career,” said Case. Snowdonia has 21,325 feet of elevation gain, as runners have to cross the highest mountain in Wales – Snowdon – known in Wales as Wyddfa.
“It really is almost like searching or climbing, where you climb a vertical rock wall,” said Case.
However, he finished his degree in just over 16 hours and 53 minutes, surpassing the other 60 women. Its time was four minutes faster than the runner -up.
“This was my warm -up in Hardrock,” Case published Case on Instagram, referring to July 11, one hundred Mile Endurance in Colorado.
This course has a length of 102.5 miles, with 33,000 feet up.
Heat or not, Case acknowledges the difficulty that won the race.
“I don’t want anyone to feel bad with themselves from a story like this. I’m quite open about how difficult it is and the support I have and the messy parts,” Case told The Guardian.
“At 95K, I finished, dry -and peeing for my entire. I ran with devices internally. Not all of them are rainbow and bunnies and many things have to gather -so that something like that happened.”
From the response he has received from the people, Case is inspiring.
“I think the answer has been overwhelmingly positive,” Case said to NPR, adding that the reaction “has shown me that we still have these ideas in CAP culturally about what a new mother should look like.”
“We must not lose ourselves to make ourselves a mother and we can continue to set big goals for ourselves.”
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