• Extreme Challenges: cycling to South Pole and being a mum

  • Mar 30 2023
  • Length: 44 mins
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Extreme Challenges: cycling to South Pole and being a mum

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  • I asked Maria Leijerstam Edy to come on because, as someone I met many years ago through Adventure Racing (pre-kids), I look up to – she has taken on extreme challenges (first person to cycle to the South Pole and fastest human powered coast to South Pole traverse in 10 days, 14hrs and 56 minutes being the craziest, as well as cycled the length of NZ, run the marathon de sable, and been the first woman to compete in the Siberian Black Ice Race, cycling across Lake Baikal)! She is also mum to two girls, 5 & 7years old.  I was keen to hear behind the scenes of that image of a polar explorer with her frozen hair and red nose and how the challenges she has put herself through have equipped her for being a parent. After our chat I felt even more connected and inspired, as Maria shared the challenges of just getting from 7am to 7pm with kids and we shared a giggle at our incontinence issues, post giving  birth to two kids…

    Maria's book- Cycling to the South Poll: A World First
    Maria's business- Burns Series Family Adventure Racing
    Book recommendation- The Accidental Adventurer by Nahla Summers
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