We've Got Big Hills
Well, he will be soon. And I assume that when he is, he will no longer have any interest in getting on top of me.
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
That would be very sad and i'd want my money back.
How do you keep your feet on the ground, when you know you were born to fly?
break'n three
I am enjoying it. We've had a break in the cold weather and I'm back to running in shorts for the time being. How is it in Siberia?
Lovely, thanks.
mileage hound
Honestly I don't know how the folks on here with young kids do it.
I spend a lot of time on the treadmill and am limited to about an hour a day. When my wife goes back to work the oldest now likes to sit and play around where I'm running, but it the baby won't nap I will be SOL for that day.
The alternative will be getting up and running before work, but with the extra 15-20min added into my outbound commute to drop oldest kid off at daycare that means 5-5:30am, and I'm not sure how workable that will be. Early morning schedules have never sat well with my internal clock.
2012 goals: Fastest race times since 2006.
My wife is incredibly supportive and tolerant. However it was an unsaid understanding (at least on my part) during the earlier years of our relationship that I would pay her back for all the waiting, giving up events, 4am wakeups to go to races, "vacations" burned on me running a marathon, etc once we had kids. Now it's time to put her needs higher and I am ok with that (though that does not preclude me from getting pissed off at being slow).
Loss of flexible scheduling has had more of an impact than having kids. In grad school I probably spent more hours per week on "work" but I scheduled ALL of it around running. Now I can't.
I find weekends much easier. To get an AM run in on a weekday requires a 5-5:30AM wake-up and, now, running in the dark. Anything much over an hour is completely impossible. On the weekend, I can be out the door at 7AM and back after 12-14 miles before our oldest kid is even awake.
So long as there is money in the bank to support her lavish lifestyle today, her next priority is me being healthy so that there will be money in the bank for years to come.
Getting a run in is a good enough reason for her for everything else to be deferred. So any lack of activity on my log is strictly my own failing.
the unrunner
fairly certain here that you guys are doing this all wrong. i never ask my wife for permission to do anything. i never make any trade-offs with my wife. i don't owe my wife anything.
if you don't run, you'll rust. [tom petty] ..... i just wanna get back on track, even if it kills me. [motion city soundtrack] ..... if i only could be running up that hill, with no problems. if only i could, be running up that hill. [kate bush] ..... still running in place [alkaline trio] ..... at least i'll try and run, and run tonight, everything will be alright [the killers] ..... don't give up the distance. [flavio the magnificent]
Yeah. And look at where that approach has gotten you.
Sempre in bilico.
A Saucy Wench
I hear you, spaniel. Honestly I'm in a different place than you are right now. My oldest just got married and my youngest is 20 living at home but I barely see him, so I have more time to run now (or so it seems). 10 - 15 years ago it would have been much tougher. Honestly I don't know how the folks on here with young kids do it.
We forgo sleep and sex. But if you have young kids those are both pretty much done for anyway.
Seriously, I run at 5:30 most mornings....my mileage suffered more for the fact that with my back injury last year I wasn't allowed to run first thing in the morning for awhile (needed to warm up the back, be out of bed for a minimum of an hour before running etc. ) than from the injury itself.
MTA: and spaniel--I am a total night owl, but eventually I did adjust to the am workout. But a few weeks off sets me right back to a painful month. But I am consistently 20-30 seconds per mile slower at 5 am than I am at 9 am.
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds" - Captain Hammer
"I don't care how old I live! I just want to be LIVING while I am living - Jack LaLanne. "When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7I failed the 12 minute run at 15...BQ'd at 38
Prince of Fatness
Gasp. Actually this wasn't always the case with us. When they were younger their bedtime was before ours.
There is a long dark road ahead of me.
We forgo sleep and sex.
So what then do you talk about at those Mom's groups then?
How to find time for sex and sleep. In that order. Hence why you need to find a good moms group. Now I just forgo sleep.
People always ask us why we put our kids to bed at 7...
© 2012 RunningAHEAD.com. All rights reserved. | Privacy