"Yeah, I'm good. I'm really happy to be here. I feel so excited and calm and peaceful, and it will be just so nice to explore this race again."
"I came here 2013 and mainly because Anna Frost, she spoke so warmly about the race and the island and the people, and then I got to experience it myself. That year with Núria Picas, we had a real nice run and battle in the end together. And then I came back in 2014, but I actually cut my hand, you see the scar here."
"So I started the race, but the muscle just fell out, and I was bleeding, and I really started to faint. So they drove me to the ... Yeah, I needed to get stitches and everything."
Emelie Forsberg returns to the Transvulcania Ultramarathon in 2026 for the first time since winning in 2015. She describes feeling excited, calm, and peaceful while being back on La Palma. She traces her connection to the race to her first visit in 2013, sparked by positive impressions of the island and event. She recounts a return in 2014 that ended with a hand injury requiring stitches after bleeding and fainting. She also references the race’s long-standing significance to her and looks forward to exploring it again. She plans to use the event as the start of a multi-year return to racing.
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