Support Athlete, Entrepreneur, and Mother Emelie Forsberg

Support Emelie Forsberg as an athlete, entrepreneur, and mother.

By on March 27, 2021 | Comments

[Editor’s Note: March is Women’s History Month! For the last seven days of March, we’re highlighting seven stories of women moving the needle forward in trail running and ultrarunning. Each article offers you a way to take action and elevate the women who make up our community. Let’s celebrate!]

I can remember it like it was yesterday: watching Emelie Forsberg win the 2012 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships in San Francisco, California. The wind blew, it rained cats and dogs, everyone was covered in mud, and the finish line became a pond. Emelie ran to the win with a flower in her hair and a huge smile as if it was a warm afternoon in a park. Here’s Emelie’s report from that day.

Today, more than nine years later, Emelie is an entirely different woman. Of course she is, we forever evolve. She went on from that rainy San Francisco day to win or podium at an incredible array of races worldwide, growing a fan base of hundreds of thousands of us around the world, and building a career out of sport. In this decade, she’s also become a mother, a business owner of Moonvalley, an author of Moonvalley Diaries, and so much more. Check out this 2019 profile of Emelie here on iRunFar for a little look at Emelie’s big world. And her most recent social media post shows her eagerly anticipating the birth of her second child.

 

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As an athlete, entrepreneur, and mother, Emelie is a huge force of trail running and ultrarunning. Here’s your chance to help support a woman who shows us that who we are and what we do with our non-running time only add richness to our stories.

Here are several ways in which you can support Emelie:

We can’t wait to see where her life goes next!

Meghan Hicks

Meghan Hicks is the Editor-in-Chief of iRunFar. She’s been running since she was 13 years old, and writing and editing about the sport for around 15 years. She served as iRunFar’s Managing Editor from 2013 through mid-2023, when she stepped into the role of Editor-in-Chief. Aside from iRunFar, Meghan has worked in communications and education in several of America’s national parks, was a contributing editor for Trail Runner magazine, and served as a columnist at Marathon & Beyond. She’s the co-author of Where the Road Ends: A Guide to Trail Running with Bryon Powell. She won the 2013 Marathon des Sables, finished on the podium of the Hardrock 100 Mile in 2021, and has previously set fastest known times on the Nolan’s 14 mountain running route in 2016 and 2020. Based part-time in Moab, Utah and Silverton, Colorado, Meghan also enjoys reading, biking, backpacking, and watching sunsets.