Emelie Forsberg Instagram – Emelie Forsberg’s Wikipedia page takes the literal cake for one of the best entries we’ve seen yet 🍰 🫶 It describes her first trail race in 2009—“She had borrowed a backpack from a friend and brought a chocolate mud cake that she had baked. Before the last big ascent she stopped for 20 minutes and ate the cake, got new energy and won the race.”
While @tinaemelie doesn’t stop for that length in racing now, the story is emblematic of an approach that we absolutely love. Emelie combines world-class trail running and mountaineering with a love of gardening, baking (yummm that banana bread), and slowing down to experience the world in a way that is truly unique in the world of professional running.
Emelie is pregnant with her third child now and we wanted to see how she’s approaching training. We learned from talking with Emelie that she also has a remarkable understanding of training science and female athlete physiology. While we all need more research on pregnancy and exercise in general, Emelie took the available science and combined those principles with an intuitive understanding of her body and a flexible approach based on how she’s feeling.
We also appreciate that Emelie highlighted that it’s okay (and beautiful) to slow down postpartum and soak it all in. While she plans to still train she says, “I would like to experience a few months where I can just be a mom and everything isn’t so planned.”
We’ll cover more about pregnancy (and fertility and postpartum and breastfeeding) ahead—but what questions do you have in the meantime?
Thank you, Emelie!
Peace, strollers, and chocolate mud cake | Posted on 21/Nov/2024 21:22:53
