Calli Hauger-Thackery - I Ran 3 Marathons While Pregnant

And can you share what actually happened, why you didn't finish?

Yeah, of course.

Um, so there was just a lot, a lot going on in my life at the time, and I think that's the thing what athletes deal with as well.

It's like, yes, we're training to be, you know, one of the best in the worlds in our, or in our country, and we're trying to, like, really compete at high level.

But obviously a- as well, like, we asked, we're all still navigating our own things in life, and at the time, unfortunately, I'd just found out my mum, my mum was diagnosed with cancer, and-

Oh

... that was really hard.

I found out two weeks before as well, so I was actually on my camp, on my training camp in Switzerland, like, training for it with the British team.

And, and at the time, I got told it could be terminal, and it was just, it was re- it was really hard to deal with, and it's just awful, horrible timing 'cause obviously that really affected me.

It affected my sleep.

Affected my, the way, like, my eat- like, my food.

Like, I, I was finding it hard to, like, digest food.

Like, even, like, and I guess once your sleep goes, that's when your appetite goes and everything else.

And with the marathon, there's no getting away with that.

Like, you need to be w- on your, on the top of your game with your sleep, with your eating, or else you're not gonna get through that 26.2 miles the way you want it.

Like, it's just not gonna go well.

Like, that is the one key thing with a marathon.

You need to be on it.

Um, like, it's gonna expose you if you're not on it with sleep and all of these different things.

So yeah, it was a stressful time.

Um, but and I think it's just affected me m- way more than I, I hoped.

And yeah, it just, unfortunately, my body just said no on the day, and it wouldn't have been smart to try and carr- carry on, and, um, I would've just done a disservice to, to myself.

I don't even think I physically could have.

I literally c- like, basically nearly collapsed on the course.

So I just had to, I just, yeah-