الأربعاء، 14 أغسطس 2024

Olympic runner Elle St Pierre on parenting, milking cows and ‘being a normal person’ – in pictures

The champion runner ‘followed her heart’ to start a family and continue dairy farming in Vermont hours from her team in Boston

Elle St Pierre grew up on a dairy farm in Montgomery, Vermont. When the Olympic 1500m runner graduated college and joined New Balance Boston, a professional running team based in the city, she deeply missed life on the farm. After a few years, she came to a compromise with coach Mark Coogan: she would come to Boston for key workouts, but Vermont – specifically, her high school sweetheart turned husband Jamie St Pierre’s family dairy farm – was home.

“If she puts her mind to something in a race or a workout, she usually gets it done,” says Coogan.

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