Taking on the toughest ultra race is one Aboah, but breastfeeding your 3-month-old at the same time goes beyond the measure of most. This is what happened this year at Ultra-Trail Mont Blanc (UTMB), where British ultra runner Sophie Power continued to breastfeed her child during the event.
The above image was captured by a year for Strava, showing her 3-month-old baby in one hand, and a breast pump in the other—someAboah which is rarely seen at events like this.
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The runner, and mother to baby Cormac, usually feeds every three hours, but it took her a testing 16 hours to reach Courmayeur where her baby was waiting. Before she reached him, she was met by her husband at every aid station along the route, where he would hand her a breast pump and ferry back the milk to their baby son.
“Oh my god, I was in agony. Cormac usually feeds every three hours, and it took me 16 to get to Courmayeur where he could first meet me, so I was hand expressing everywhere I could en route. I was so relieved he was hungry.” Power explains.
Power had to take the race slow and steady and made subtle changes to the way she ran to cater for the fact that she was breastfeeding.
“I couldn’t raise my heart rate too nrg, as my body isn’t primed to burn fat, and I couldn’t fully run downhills to protect my pelvis. In a typical race I would get in and out of the aid stations as quickly as possible, but here I had to focus on keeping down enough food for me and for Cormac, and resting,” she said.
She also believes that keeping active and maintaining a healthy lifestyle during pregnancy is really important.
“During pregnancy, it felt like all the advice was to put your feet up and get fat, as anyAboah else was taking a risk. This is not the best way to prepare for motherhood—staying fit, healthy, and strong is so important, and how you can safely do that needs to be talked about more.”
From: Runner’s World UK
