Two-time track and field Olympian Molly Huddle was pregnant past her May due date. Since she’d been running throughout her pregnancy, she turned to what she knew best: “Trying to ‘sprint the baby out,’” she joked on Instagram , tagging it #speedwaddle.

Three days later, on May 28, her second child, baby Louisa, arrived.

Huddle had been there before. Both she and fellow pro runner Kellyn Taylor had returned to racing after giving birth to their first children, entering the New York City Marathon in 2023. Taylor finished first among American women, averaging an impressive 5-minute, 43-second mile 10 months postpartum . Huddle followed close behind, placing second.

A year before that, Chelsea Sodaro won the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, just 18 months after having her d

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