This week has been pretty bad with sleep because the baby is going through a growth spurt of some kind and picked up an extra night feeding and the toddler is going through some kind of awful phase of randomly screaming at night for no reason. The combination of being up with both of them has rendered me almost completely unable to remember any details about my running this week. Luckily, I use Daily Mile so I can go back and refresh myself.
Monday: This was one of those ideal days because the baby woke up at 5am for a feeding, so I was able to feed her and get her back to sleep and then run and shower before they both woke up for the day. It's challenging for me to run before breakfast after a night of feeding the baby, but I managed to run a 10K in 59 minutes (9:32min/mile pace).
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| We need to work together to stop this "running in the morning" nonsense |
Tuesday: Rest day. I had run 5 days in a row, so I took a day off and cleaned the house during my usual running time. This is why I hate rest days.
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| Even Putin needs a rest day from being Putin |
Wednesday: Faith had school and it was warm outside, so I ran 4.25 miles outside with the stroller and then 3 miles more on the treadmill when I got back inside and put the baby down for a nap. The baby seems to not be able to nap well in the stroller, but maybe she'll come around to it or she'll eventually be old enough to last more than 60 minutes without needing a siesta.
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| Don't be a jealous hater Mommy |
Thursday: After a really rough night with both kids, I didn't start the day feeling optimistic about being able to run. I told myself that I'd be really happy if I got the chance to run 5 miles. After breakfast, Cordelia went down for a nap so I had Faith watch her morning Elmo (don't you have your morning Elmo?) downstairs while I ran a quick 2 miles. Then I took them both to "Wiggle Giggle Time" at the library and that must have been exhausting because they both took awesome afternoon naps. I had both monitors staring at me while I ran and I kept expecting to get interrupted, but it never happened. I got 8 more miles down and a quick shower before anyone woke up. I think that was my first 10 mile run day post-baby, but don't hold me to that.
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| It could have been 12 if you skipped that showering crap |
Friday: My legs felt tired, but my husband had the day off, so I wasn't going to pass up the chance to run. I stuck to the treadmill in case I was needed, which is the more boring option than running outside but I try to make the best of it. I just started watching the BBC series "Dr. Who" on my Kindle Fire and having deep thoughts about why so many space aliens seemed to have British accents made it easier to run 7.5 miles.
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| OMG, is my mom is nerd? |
Saturday: This run should have been really uneventful because it was just another boring treadmill afternoon run. For the most part it was boring, until a fuse blew out and the treadmill came to a startling halt. All my years of kung fu training paid off and I managed to not fall. I hadn't been looking at my mileage as I was going, but the last time I had checked it was at 4.5 miles, so once we fixed (by "we", I mean my husband), I ran 2 more miles and called it 6.5 for the day.
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| Can I eat this crayon and call it coloring? |
Sunday (otherwise known as today): Both kids were little packages of cranky and after a long morning of bouncing between the two of them, I was able to escape for 52 blissful minutes of fresh air and silence. I didn't even take any music and enjoyed the soundtrack of the dog's toe nails on the road. I finished up with 5.34 miles (can you tell I actually took my Garmin with me?) and felt relaxed enough to have patience with a toddler screaming because I'm not playing Legos with her in the "right" way.
For those of you keeping track at home, or if you are just scrolling through this boring post and looking at the pictures, here is my week in a graph:
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| Almost looks like a middle finger |
If you found all this discussion of running horribly boring, here is another picture of an adorable baby in a silly hat:
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| I am this cute at 3am too |
See? All better.
Do you have a good memory, or do you always forget things? I normally have a great memory, but now I'm pretty sure I wash my hair twice sometimes because I can't remember if I just did it.
I think your problem is insufficient use of the #motherrunner hashtag.
ReplyDeleteI'm too much of a #zombiemom to remember to do that
DeleteShould I join Daily Mile or would that be a step backward in my quest to extricate myself from social networks?
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the 10 miler. Your baby is VERY cute in that hat, but then I read the words "3 a.m." and "extra feeding" and am able to quite firmly tell my biological clock to STFU.
A step back for sure, but you get pretty graphs! :)
DeleteI'm so glad I wasted my precious five minutes to read this tripe.
ReplyDeleteIt took you 5 minutes to read that? Are you slow or something?
Deleteit was on my phone, and there were distractions. Still, the point is, that you suck.
DeleteFaith appears to be studiously ignoring Cordelia in that picture. And you clearly lost your memory a long time ago. If you remembered having an infant, you'd never have had a second one.
ReplyDeleteI have a better theory on the forgetfulness issue. It's my firm belief that every time you get pregnant you give away half of your brain to the baby. I've had four pregnancies so now I'm down to 1/16th of what I started with. I'm lucky if I can remember how to dress myself and walk most days. But sure, having three wonderful sons, who won't leave home and won't clean their rooms or do their washing was totally worth it.
ReplyDeleteOh My GOSH she is so friggin CUTE! Look at her little smile!
ReplyDeleteThere is a reason why no one has an accurate account (except bloggers!) as to how the newborn days truly were - because you can't function mentally enough to form real memories!
Does Faith get woken up when Cordelia wakes up? Is that why she got up? I'd be a cranky mess too I bet!
YESS you're watching Doctor Who!!! They all have British accents because the Tardis translates for you! Geez.
ReplyDeleteI have an awesome memory. Unfortunately, my husband also thinks he has an awesome memory, which he does not. Makes for really great "conversations" sometimes. :-)
ReplyDeleteI think writing stuff down really helps with the memory loss. I barely know what day it is half of the time and if it weren't for an app on my phone, I really don't think I'd know how old Lena is. I answer with "um, I think she's almost 5 months? maybe not quite?"
ReplyDeleteAhh, so that's why I can't remember anything! I used to have such a good memory and I knew motherhood somehow screwed it up, but now I know it's the crap sleep I've gotten for the past 3 years. I'm so impressed by how many miles you're able to squeeze in!
ReplyDeleteWow, you run a lot. Your kids must have been really annoying. I find the more annoyed I am the more I want to run. The difference is I don't find myself waking to run at 5 am. That makes you crazier than me.
ReplyDeleteI didn't wake up to run, I was already up :)
DeleteI love that hat!
ReplyDeleteI can remember stuff from like 10 years ago pretty clearly but then I'll go copy papers for a lesson only to come back and realize I already copied them yesterday. I LOVE that hat more and more. You finally got the graph to look like a middle fingers! And seriously, count yourself lucky, my friend's scars are frightening from her treadmill randomly stopping.
ReplyDeleteIs it just me, or in the split second after Putin kisses the puppy, does it seem like he's about to say, 'Now into the woodchipper!'
ReplyDeleteI keep a written journal (really just a bullet list of everything I did each day), and sort of like your DailyMile account, it helps trigger some memories when I look back at it -- helps fill in the gaps. Generally, I have a pretty good memory, but I haven't had any children yet to ruin it!
I have to say hi as a fellow southern Maryland 20something runner (I live in Charles County and work in calvert). don't you just love running on highways?
ReplyDeletelove the blog, your kiddos are adorable
SOMD runners unite! Do you ever do any CBRC events?
DeleteRunning on a very tilted highway is a staple of SOMD running :)
Holy cow! You are awesome!! I don't know how you do it:) I forget things constantly, to the degree that I wonder if I have a serious issue. Then I just forget about it! I have gotten out of the shower before and realized I forgot to wash something and had to get back in. Now that's bad:) Hasn't happened in a while luckily:)
ReplyDeleteSweet runs! :) I don't really like any sci-fi stuff, but Doctor Who is pretty darn good.
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