Rest days with the family make all the hard work and training worth it. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 As parents and athletes, amanda_basham & justin_grunewald find the balance of parenthood and everyday endurance training by working together. As they’ve learned through ultrarunning, it’s all about adapting to every situation. “Being a parent and an athlete is definitely pretty difficult,” says Amanda. “Recovery becomes a lot harder and you kind of just have to work with the time that you have. But I think it makes you a better runner. “It’s almost guaranteed that a race is not going to go how you plan for it to go. When training was perfect, it was a lot harder to adapt to bad situations. As a parent, when it comes to adapting and changing plans during a race, I’m a lot more calm. I’m able to just go with it.” Through training and racing, these ultra parents also find some deeper, heartwarming motivation to push towards the finish line. “It takes a crazy amount of endurance that goes into raising chil...