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The Extreme Athlete Who Walks Her Own Path
The Extreme Athlete Who Walks Her Own Path
At age 38, she could barely lift a milk carton. Seven years later, Anna Wretling has completed an Ironman and fought her way up to the Gaustatoppen summit.
– My mind keeps it together because I'm good at turning off inefficient thoughts and focus on the positive ones, she says.
How do you react when crossing the finish line after 3.8 kilometers of swimming, 18 miles by bike and 4.2 miles of running, in ten hours and one minute? With an unclenched fist? By breaking down from the effort? Or with a shrug and an "oh well?".
Anna Wretling belongs in the third category.
If you follow her on Instagram, you will see how she crawls up slopes, balances on bridges, tests ballet and does yoga exercises with her children. Ticking an Ironman off the list is only a part of the great training puzzle.
So it's by no means odd that she is often called a pusher of boundaries and an extreme athlete, the entrepeneur who started training at the age of 38 and since then – within only a few years – has managed everything from a marathon to fighting her way up to the Gaustatoppen summit.
– I was one out of seventeen women who reached the summit in the Norseman (the world's toughest extreme triathlon). It was something I'll never forget, says Anna.
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