Case one one of her three stops to breastfeed her 6-month-old daughter, Pepper – credit Stephanie Case

Hoping to get her “sanity and slight insanity” back after giving birth to her first child, a Canadian runner has completed a 60 mile run through Wales just 6 months postpartum.

It didn’t get in the way of her duties as a mother, however, and Stephanie Case was determined to breastfeed all along the way.

The Ultra-Trail Snowdonia race in Eryri, Wales, runs 100 kilometers through the region’s famous national park. Case had already signed up for it 6 months before her daughter Pepper was born.

Because it was her first ultramarathon since her pregnancy, she felt no pressure for any performance markers, she just wanted to get back out on the trails.

“I am scheduled to do a 100-mile race in Colorado in July, and because I haven’t raced in so many years, I thought I should do a practice run to shake out the cobwebs and make sure that I knew how to put one foot in front of the other and also practice doing the breastfeeding stops for my daughter midrace,” Case told CTV News Toronto.

She knew that would be a bit of a challenge, but as she started to run in preparation for the race, she could feel all the mental and physical benefits of running kick in again, and as race day approached, her mindset shifted.

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“I realized that actually, yeah, I can set a higher goal for myself. Why not try to do well in these races? Why not try to shoot for something that seems impossible?”

Starting with the third and final wave of participant runners, Case used her two aid breaks to breastfeed Pepper, while the organizers granted her an additional third break purely for breastfeeding.

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Stephanie Case at one of the highest points in the race – credit Stephanie Case

She finished the 60-mile Ultra-Trail Snowdonia race in 16 hours, 53 minutes, and 22 seconds.

Her story got featured in People Magazine, and she is eager not to reinforce the idea that moms have to be it all and do it all. Doing it all means staying happy and healthy for the sake of oneself and their child, and for Case, that means running ultramarathons.

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