Meet the 1st woman to run an ultra marathon in Antarctica

You can't really train for this kind of a cold. I wasn't going to be able to practice training in minus 20, minus 30 degrees this time of year. I didn't know how my gear would hold up, how my body would hold up. So the whole thing was really a bit of an experiment. But part of the technique I used to train my mind to get ready for a race like this, which was a loop. Of course, it was 38 loops of 4.2 kilometers was to train running in loops here at home. Wow. Okay. And why did you want to put your body through this experiment? You know, the idea came up after last year. I ran my first race after having a baby when she was just six months old, and I was breastfeeding my baby throughout the course and ended up winning. It was a 100-kilometer race in Wales, and it was an incredible experience. And while the reaction was mostly positive, there were quite a few men and women criticizing me for coming back to training so soon after having my baby, for being selfish by focusing on something for myself. They said I should be at home, I should be taking it easy. This narrative that we should be settling down when we become moms, right? And even though it's 2026, there seems to just be this antiquated idea at the back of people's heads that when you When you become a mom, you have to give up. Certain things, you have to think smaller, dream smaller, aim for less. And so I thought the best way to respond to that criticism and also to remind myself that motherhood wasn't the finish line was to go do something bigger, go to the end of the earth and try to set a record where no woman had yet established that mark.