One thing I”ve been asked a few times is: How do you do it? How do you keep up the workout schedule when you have two young kids and a part time from home job?
My answer: I don’t know. I just do.
This week, though, I’m tired.
In order to fit in my workouts I have to get up at 5 AM most days of the week (4 of them, anyway); and since I like to be home fairly early on Sundays I have to get up around 6 to do my long run, which can take up to two hours or so.
This week, I’m tired of the schedule.
I would like to sleep in, at least sometimes. I would like to be flexible and run when I feel like it, just sometimes.
That’s the hardest part about being a mom who runs.
That and the fact that there’s a tri and a 5K (same race) this Saturday and I can’t do either of them. Why? Husband is busy, no one to watch the kids, so I can’t go.
Sometimes, sometimes, I would really like to have the ability to be flexible with my schedule.
But that just comes with the territory. Once you have kids, you give up that luxury and you begin to work around someone else’s schedule. You run when you have to run, not when you want to run. You give up the idea that training can happen at any time, and you realize that cooking dinner, giving children baths and putting them to bed is really more important than getting in a 5 miler. So you schedule the 5 miler before dawn, just to make sure that it happens.
There are those lucky days, though. The days when you think you aren’t going to get up one more day early, so you sleep in late, and then you reschedule so you can take the baby for a run in the jogger. Or someone calls and invites your toddler over for a playdate, so you get to sneak in a quickie around the block.
There are those bright sunny days when you get outside to exercise though you thought it wouldn’t happen; and those days are great.
And it is then that you realize the early morning runs are a lot of fun, too, just in a different way.
That scheduling isn’t always all bad. Sometimes, actually, it works best because you know if you do it, it is done, and you got it in.
I’ve gotten faster with age. Partly, I think, because I am workng on it, but partly, I believe, because I have to be highly dedicated to working out in order to get it done. It has become one of my top priorities, so I get up early and I do it.
Flexibility is nice; it is great; it just isn’t the time right now.
And so, I schedule.
One thing I”ve been asked a few times is: How do you do it? How do you keep up the workout schedule when you have two young kids and a part time from home job?
My answer: I don’t know. I just do.
This week, though, I’m tired.
In order to fit in my workouts I have to get up at 5 AM most days of the week (4 of them, anyway); and since I like to be home fairly early on Sundays I have to get up around 6 to do my long run, which can take up to two hours or so.
This week, I’m tired of the schedule.
I would like to sleep in, at least sometimes. I would like to be flexible and run when I feel like it, just sometimes.
That’s the hardest part about being a mom who runs.
That and the fact that there’s a tri and a 5K (same race) this Saturday and I can’t do either of them. Why? Husband is busy, no one to watch the kids, so I can’t go.
Sometimes, sometimes, I would really like to have the ability to be flexible with my schedule.
But that just comes with the territory. Once you have kids, you give up that luxury and you begin to work around someone else’s schedule. You run when you have to run, not when you want to run. You give up the idea that training can happen at any time, and you realize that cooking dinner, giving children baths and putting them to bed is really more important than getting in a 5 miler. So you schedule the 5 miler before dawn, just to make sure that it happens.
There are those lucky days, though. The days when you think you aren’t going to get up one more day early, so you sleep in late, and then you reschedule so you can take the baby for a run in the jogger. Or someone calls and invites your toddler over for a playdate, so you get to sneak in a quickie around the block.
There are those bright sunny days when you get outside to exercise though you thought it wouldn’t happen; and those days are great.
And it is then that you realize the early morning runs are a lot of fun, too, just in a different way.
That scheduling isn’t always all bad. Sometimes, actually, it works best because you know if you do it, it is done, and you got it in.
I’ve gotten faster with age. Partly, I think, because I am workng on it, but partly, I believe, because I have to be highly dedicated to working out in order to get it done. It has become one of my top priorities, so I get up early and I do it.
Flexibility is nice; it is great; it just isn’t the time right now.
And so, I schedule.