After having two children back-to-back in 2016 and 2017, Elizabeth Northern is gearing up for her second shot at Trials.
, she found out she was pregnant with her first child. The Fort Worth, Texas-based runner, who works as a research analyst at Tarrant County College, celebrated the news with her husband while she took some time off after Trials.again. “I ended up running right up until I went into labor,” Northern, 32, toldNorthern, who began running 1K loops around her childhood home in Fort Worth at the age of 4, had her first daughter, Penny, in November 2016.
Before she knew she was pregnant in early 2017, the runner had asked a new coach to train her to qualify for the. “I had to tell him, ‘Hold that thought, let me have this baby, and we’ll revisit a year from now,’” she said. In December 2017, just a year and two weeks after having Penny, Northern delivered her son, Davis. With two babies in the house, she had to rapidly adjust to a new sleep, work, and training routine that allowed for enough time to care for her kids while also getting back in shape in time to qualify for Trials—which were only 14 months away.
“In June 2018, after a few months in a sleep-deprived fog, I called up my coach and said, ‘Let’s do this,’” she said. “I figured if I could get a solidRunner's World 2020 CalendarNorthern did just that: last September, she won the 2018 Tour des Fleurs Half Marathon in Dallas, Texas, in
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