Well, Carole will be proud to know that our whole family piled out of bed at 1:30 am to go over to our friends’ house and watch the SB. Wendy will just think I’m nuts since she didn’t even watch it, and she’s in the same time zone!!
We don’t get the fun commercials—only the international ESPN commercials. But now that it’s over we can download them (though it’s slow), so we’re working on that.
Wendy—Thanks, I’ll watch for your pm. No rush. Remember, I’m super-skilled at delayed gratification! Ha!
Carole—I do have a foam roller and love it, love it. It is the whole reason that I can even run at all again. I had been stopped for years, but I didn’t know what was causing the pain my left knee. Then I read about the roller in a fitness mag (I think M&F Hers), and decided to try it out. Immediate improvement!! So, I’m bummed that I still have issues, but the fact that I’m even running at all seems miraculous, and it's all thanks to the roller.
Jackie—P90X start date is March 9. ½ mary is Feb 21, then I’m going to do “easy” workouts for a week, then I’ll be out of town for a week (and will be able to run without a pre-mapped route thanks to my Garmin). So I’ll start P90X as soon as we get back. I’m planning to do a real leaning out emphasis and hopefully shed a few pounds and some body fat with P90X. DH is hoping for the same.
Wendy—I hear you on the workout dilemma trying to work around DH and DS! Often I get interrupted by my own dear kiddoes. It’s frustrating—but I try to remember that they are seeing a good example of mom working out. But if anyone tries to talk to me during low end lunges, they are likely to get their heads bitten off!!
I have no reserve to do anything but lunges at that point! LOL at you needing DH to hide CLX. It’s so fun to have new workouts!
Brighton—I’m so impatient about learning new ‘stuff’ on the computer. Yes, it would take something like being off my feet for a week. Glad you could take advantage of the time to do something fun you might otherwise not do. I did take 30 minutes yesterday to play with the new Garmin. It has so many features!! Fun, fun, but lots to learn. The legs still are slow to recover from ‘long’ runs but are holding up. I’m tight today still but feel confident that I’ll be ready to run again tomorrow.
To everyone who commented on my 26.2 back-up battery story . . . Yes, absolutely, it’s a sign that I’m supposed to be a Cheetah! I think it’s just a figurative symbol of marathons in general, because I have never had a desire to run a full marathon. And after this experience, I can see that would be a real training challenge. My legs are having trouble cooperating for just a half!! But there’s no way that my batteries could say 13.1 because that’s not enough electrical power. So I’ll just take the 26.2 as symbolic of marathons in general, full or half!