Having a Baby Didn’t Slow Down Olympian Elle Purrier St. Pierre

After Elle Purrier St. Pierre gave birth to her son, Ivan, in March 2023—during the prime of her distance-running career, a year and change before the Paris Olympics—she felt, she says, “like garbage.” Her first training run back, which came three weeks after Ivan was born, “was not fun at all,” she says. “I just knew that I needed to take it slow.”

Six months after delivering Ivan, she returned to racing at the 5th Avenue Mile in New York City, in September 2023.