Like Kate, Pippa Middleton is well known as a sports enthusiast (1). She's often seen running, skiing or playing hockey, and recent photos of the 39-year-old mum-of-three on holiday in St Barts reveal she has an enviable figure to show for it.
But did you know that she is also a lover of extreme sports? Pippa has travelled all over the world to take part in awe-inspiring (2) challenges that have pushed her body to the limit.
Alongside her brother James, she cycled from London to Brighton in June 2015 to raise money for the British Heart Foundation, a distance of over 85km.
Later that month, she completed her first marathon. But this wasn’t any old race: she opted for the Tusk Trust’s Safaricom Marathon in Kenya. Conditions on the route are truly challenging: temperatures rise above 30°C and competitors race at an altitude of over 1,500 metres. Plus there's the possibility of encountering lions or rhinos! Speaking to HELLO! after completing the gruelling (3) 42km course Pippa said: “It was tough – tougher than anything I’d been faced with before, and required every inch of my energy, stamina and stubbornness.”
In January the following year she took part in the world’s longest downhill ski race, coming an impressive 67th out of 105 competitors. The Inferno Cross Country ski race in Mürren, Switzerland is known as one of the hardest races in the discipline. A spokesperson for the event, Sam Bichsel, told People that Pippa was pleased as punch (4) with her first attempt at this type of competition.“For her it was a really positive result and she was really, really, happy to finish the race,” he said.
Having welcomed her third child, baby Rose, in the summer of 2022, the mother-of-three has taken a step back from these adrenaline-packed pursuits, focusing on her growing brood (5) instead. But motherhood hasn’t stopped her from staying active. She finds that having a high fitness level is good for both body and mind, as well of course as helping her to keep up with her kids.
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And this isn’t the end of Pippa’s extreme sport career. She has plenty of adventures that she's longing to tackle. An Athlete Ambassador for the sports brand HOKA, in 2021 she wrote: “I still have goals for the future and challenges I’d like to embrace so I’ve kept them on my bucket list to return when the time is right, this includes the London and New York marathons, the Coast-to-Coast multi-sport event in New Zealand, the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc MCC (the 40km race) and the Cape Town Cycle Tour.”
1. Enthusiast = Fan, devotee
2. Awe-inspiring = Amazing, stunning
3. Gruelling = Exhausting, extremely tiring
4. Pleased as punch = Very happy
5 Brood = Family
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