Jessica Stenson is set to race in the Commonwealth Games marathon. She'll do so with a wonderful new perspective discovered in motherhood. 9WWOS CommonwealthGames B2022
But in November 2019, Stenson and her husband Dylan were blessed by the arrival of their beloved boy Billy.Jessica Stenson will pull on green and gold as a mum for the first time in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games marathon.
The South Australian, an older sister of former AFL midfielder Jack Trengove, was forced to miss seven weeks of training early this year due to a stress reaction in her femur. Being a mum means Stenson no longer has the time to be banking up to 200 kilometres a week, the heavy workload that built her up for bronze at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
"So I'm hoping to spot them at a few points around the course, and then they'll do their best to make it to the finish line . "I was sharing a room with her at the London Olympics and she wasn't a mum at that point," Stenson says of Wellings. Wellings, a two-time Olympian, is about to become the first Australian runner to have competed at five Commonwealth Games.
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