Amid school shutdowns and job furloughs, running became a salve for our mostly mom running group.
Leah, our team leader, arrived in Portland, Oregon, early and picked up most of our supplies for the weekend, including coolers of avocados, rotisserie chicken, hard-boiled eggs, and bread that would be our sustenance for the weekend. An event planner who had grown up in the Northwest admiring Hood-to-Coasters, Leah ensured every detail was in place to make this race possible.
,” and our team name, Legs ‘n’ Eggs. After the crazy year-plus we had all had since schools shut down, we really felt like a set of legs and eggs—our ovaries as much a part of our running journey as the legs taking us across the finish line.Though it was emotional to get ready for the race without Jane, the energy on Friday morning was palpable.
“Mentally, I can’t tell you how much it has helped me,” said Monica, who lost her job during the pandemic. “This is something we all needed.”My running gear included a manual breast pump since I was still nursing my one-year-old daughter. I would expel milk in between legs, and the bags of breastmilk lying around the van became a running joke—that we could always start living off them if we ran out of food or got stranded.
They also prompted stories about mothering trials and mishaps, from teaching boys to aim while peeing to helping them cope with the loss of their classmate and friend, Jane’s son. “Running is like childbirth,” Jinah remarked at one point. “Moments of exhaustion, followed by moments of release.”
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