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“One of the first things the counselor told me was, ‘write your own obituary,'” says Ivy Braford-Lefebvre. “I was like, holy sh*t, what do people think about me? … What will they ever remember about me? … Who am I?”

Ivy and her husband, Cody Braford-Lefebvre, find themselves asking big questions and finding the answers while running with their children in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado year-round.

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