Marathon mums: How having children made Australia’s Olympic runners stronger

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Even mothers who can’t comprehend having two-and-a-half hours to themselves, let alone running 42 kilometres in that time, can relate to a couple of the qualities required for marathon running: “patience and an ability to suffer”.

Eddie and Dara will both have to miss a bit of school, but they could never miss this. Archer will be in his Dad’s arms. Billy and Ellie will be somewhere along the Champs-Elysees with their family.

Stenson, who will have Billy, four, and Ellie, eight months, in her support crew in Paris, said it had counterintuitively been easier for her to return to running after having her second child. She raced the Daegu marathon less than seven months later.Getty Images “Immediately you start to grow a fetus you need more blood supply to the uterus so you increase your blood volume and your plasma volume, you also increase the blood volume that is going to the muscles. You will need increased cardiac output, so the amount that your heart can beat and pump blood out each time, your stroke volume increases, then your respiratory volume or tidal volume increases,” she said.

“It’s been talked about a lot more in female athlete circles that actually, I am a better mum if I give myself my training time out where I go and get all of those endorphins, adrenalin, all of those neuro-chemicals that I know make my mental state good, and then I come back home and I am a better mum ... it’s become more socially acceptable for new mums to try and return to sport because they are not seen to be neglecting their family.

but I am assuming . I talked to Paul Blackman, the doctor with AA , and I think the hormones that your body produces when you are pregnant, especially I think with having a boy, change you,” she said in December, pointing to the enforced rest after years of competing.

 

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