Category: Exercise
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Tomorrow’s run.
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3 comments on Tomorrow’s run.Last night our family went to the gym, as we usually do on Thursdays. I've been swimming on Thursdays, running on my other two days a week, but last night I ran because it was my last workout before tomorrow's 5K. My "tapering" run, so I got to have an easy run. "How fast…
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Sub-category.
Kara Thom thinks there should be a separate race sub-category for mothers. Empowering or patronizing? (Or would that be "matronizing?") I don't know, but it would sure generate some interesting data. I wonder how I placed among mothers in my first two 5Ks?
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Travel lightly.
We just had a week's vacation in the mountains. When we were out doing fun stuff I wasn't thinking about blogging. I still haven't forgotten how to unplug when necessary. But I had to stop and eat from time to time, and the habit of analyzing my appetites dies pretty hard. Vacation food presents a…
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Garbage yardage?
After Leo turned six weeks old and I got into the pool for my first postnatal swim, I floundered. It felt so good to be back in the water again after close to four months off. It felt so awful to have lost so much ground, to know I'd have to work hard to "get…
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Barefoot running?
Announcement: I'll be running my first postpartum 5K on August 7. You have no idea how good it feels to be planning for another race — now that I have it scheduled, I can truly say that I am not just "recovering," I am in fact training. I ran for 25 minutes today and will…
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Running music #3.
"Beds Are Burning," Midnight Oil "Big Time," Peter Gabriel "Blister in the Sun," Violent Femmes "Blue Sky Mine," Midnight Oil If the sugar refining company won't save me, who's gonna save me? "Candy Everybody Wants," 10,000 Maniacs. So their minds are dull and hazy/we give 'em what they want. "Cut to the Chase," Rush "Give…
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Gym rats.
Now that I'm walking and running around the track most of the time, instead of on the treadmill — because that works out better for handing Leo off to Mark or to our oldest to watch while I run, or for walking with Leo in the sling — I'm noticing the people around me a…
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Running playlist #2.
Still walking for a lot of it, of course. "An American Girl" (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) After all, it was a great big world/with lots of places to run to… "Shock the Monkey" (Peter Gabriel) "It's the End of the World As We Know It"(R.E.M.) Time I had some time alone! "The Lazy Boy"…
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Trial run.
Today I returned to running. Not for very long: I started with just five minutes. But it was a good start. I signed MJ and Milo into the child care, but Oscar came with me and Leo up to the track. As we headed up the stairs we passed a quartet of women coming down,…
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Groggy.
I didn't know it was possible, but as I walked around the 1-18th-mile track that circles the top of the basketball gym at the Y, I was dozing off on the straightaways. Just for a couple seconds, in between rounding the corners, the music from my iPod floated me away into brief interludes of microsleep.…
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Back in the game.
I'm not sure it's the same game, though. I made it to the gym tonight with the rest of my family. The last time I was there was two weeks ago, vigorously stepping on the stairclimber, trying to turn the baby and maybe go into labor. This plan, you may remember, succeeded (I gave birth…
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