Jobe’s boyfriend served as her pacer for the event. Temperatures were in the 20s when runners took off at 6 a.m. Nov. 1, Jobe said. Overnight, they dropped into the teens. There were 13 aid stations where runners could get water, food and supplements, Jobe said. Race monitors at one station took Jobe into a trailer with a heater so she could get thawed out and change her clothes and shoes.

Jobe grew up in Council Bluffs and graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School, where she was on the dance team. She studied health and nutritional science at Iowa Western Community College. She started running about five years ago after the birth of her third child, as a means of losing some weight. The adrenaline rush she found in running motivated Jobe to aspire to bigger challenges, such as a half-marathon and then her first full-marathon, in May, 2010.

In June, 2014, Jobe ran a 100k in Wisconsin and a 50-miler in September in Kansas. Running is now part of her everyday life.