Leaning into the Season

Reckoning with shifting goals and appreciation for my early morning runs

I did not run Chuckanut 50k last weekend. 

One year ago, I was certain that’s how I’d spend this weekend, the 3rd weekend of March 2024. But then I had a baby and some things changed. Duh? 

I knew I was having a baby, of course. That’s part of what made my Chuckanut dreams so exciting! The race would fall almost exactly on my daughter’s 1st birthday so how cool would that be to run it one year postpartum?! Bonus that it was also close to my own birthday and the same race where I ran my first 50k a few years ago. Some pretty epic full-circle moments to be had, for sure!

But when December 1st rolled around and I saw the registration reminder on my calendar, I was not excited. Adding hours of training to my weeks did not sound fun.