Let’s not call her the picky one.
No, let’s call her my muse. A source of inspiration. A fruit and vegetable avoiding force to be reckoned with.
See, I can make a fruit smoothie for Ava – no problem.
Frozen strawberries, frozen blueberries, banana, a couple glugs of almond milk. Sounds good, right?
For Ava, yes.
For Maxine?
No.
But!
Thanks to a bit of experimentation, I have come to discover that Maxine will eat that exact same fruit smoothie when it’s poured into a mold,
2010 started an awful lot like 2009 started: with a 7.5 mile road race first thing on New Years Day. Except unlike last year, I waited until the very last minute to decide whether or not to run this race.
The decision was made at about 8 AM on 1/1/2010 when my running friend Shawn called to first yell at me for still being asleep and then to continue our debate from the day before on why we should or should not run. He was just getting over a cold. I had just run 5 miles the day before. The weather was ok and the park where the race was held was a nice place to run. Pros and cons, hems and haws, we eventually decided to go for it.
This post is a figment of your imagination. Or is it?
I didn’t expect to have a chance to run or post this morning. But here I am, having unexpectedly run and now unexpectedly posting. How unexpected.
When an opportunity to run this morning presented itself, I jumped at it. Zak worked from home, the kids slept late, so off I went for a healthy dose of endorphins and some fresh air and sunshine. The real reason I went was to wax nostalgic because unless I get to sneak out tomorrow morning (Merry Christmas to me?) this will be my last run through these neighborhood streets as well as my last chance to avoid running into Mr. Miyagi.
I’ve run Turkey Trot races on Thanksgiving morning before. They are a lot of fun and it’s such a great way to start the holiday off on a healthy kick! I considered doing one again, but in the interest of time I decided to do my own little Turkey Trot at home for free this year.
My girlfriend Sharon came out this morning to run this morning and doing it together made it seem more like an “event”!
We hit the streets in my neighborhood at about 8 this morning for a nice and chatty Thanksgiving morning run.
Today I am taking my title as Stay At Home Mom quite literally and we are not going anywhere today. No. Where.
Well, I did go for a run but that doesn’t count. I didn’t schlep children in and out of the car, carry arm loads of extra clothes, snacks, toys, mail, papers and shoes out the door with me, so really it doesn’t feel like I’ve gone anywhere at all.
On my didn’t-go-anywhere run, my lovely albeit slightly boring digital watch told me I was gone for 36 minutes. My inner GPS says I probably went about 4 and a half miles.
My morning activity was decided for me today when I let Maxine cry just a little too long hoping she’d fall back to sleep. She did fall back to sleep once I laid down with her a few minutes, but Zak did not fall back to sleep – and thus deciding to go into work early, leaving me to find something to do at home on this chilly fall morning.
Time to roll out the yoga mat.
Zak off to work + quiet house + 45 minutes of Yoga for Runners (my legs are still feeling shaky) + hot shower = time for breakfast.
I woke up this morning at 5:45 4:45. Early (yikes) but I loved that I was able to go for my run in the LIGHT at 6:30!
For fall/winter running, I’ll agree to run outside if 2 out of 3 criteria are met:
1.) Warm
2.) Dry
3.) Light
Scenario A: If it’s raining (lightly) but warm? OK.
Scenario B: If it’s light out and cold? Sure.
Scenario C: Dark and cold but dry? Not my favorite but I’ll do it.
Scenario D: If it’s dark and wet and cold? Deal breaker.
Yoga was on the agenda for this morning, but what was NOT on the agenda was Thing 2 waking up early with me.
Under normal, children-still-sleeping circumstances, I would listen my yogadownload podcast from the computer speakers, but that wasn’t going to work today. Instead of making yogadownload and Blue’s Clue’s battle it out, I’d fired up the iPod and used my arm band for yoga like I do for running!
I totally should have taken a picture of me patting myself on the back.
With Steve and Blue babysitting Maxine, I got my downward dog on.
Today is a planned rest day. I was tempted to take yesterday off but Zak wanted to swim early on Monday and go straight to work – meaning I wouldn’t be to run unless I got up well before 5. hahahahahyeahright. I pushed my rest day off until today and it worked out well for both of us.
I slept in this morning until about 6:45. After some time on the computer I cut into a not-quite-ripe peach. A little too much crunch, but still sweet.
This morning I was ready to whip out my young coconut meat. Although that might be misconstrued as something inappropriate for those under 18, really it’s just me getting the scraped out guts of my young coconut from yesterday out of the refrigerator. Sorry to burst your dirty mind bubble.
I first learned about the wonder of young coconuts from The Raw Food Detox Diet.
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