Ingrid Lid: From Norwegian Mountains to Centurion Track100
"An incredible steely determination whilst remaining so positive to those around her."
From the magnificent Norwegian mountains to the Centurion Track100, Ingrid Lid has proven time and time again that there is a passion in ultrarunners that cannot be found anywhere else.
“I’ve always been running, but it was something that I used for my mental health, and I just like to be outside in nature. As a child, I loved running in the woods and the hills and mountains, pretending I was a horse; I used to jump over fences. So I did a lot of horse riding, which was the first sport I trained for.
“I moved to Cheyenne when I was 15 years old to go to school, but when I moved away, I felt very lonely, so I just started running to get out into the city. I felt much better inside myself while running. But the running I did at that time was every time I went out; I went as fast as I could.
She continued: “It went like that for some years, but when I was in my early twenties, I started to have more scheduled training. I learned a lot more about how to train to run further. I also did a lot of trail running. My first race was an 18-kilometre trail run, and after that, I went straight up to the marathon distance.
Ingrid’s first race was the 2017 Oslo Marathon, completing it in 3 hours and 25 minutes. However, she yearned for something more: “I was not tired after the race. I just felt like I would like to run a little longer. So just some months after, I did my first 50-kilometre race.
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