Got home from ALA this morning at 5:30am after driving all night. Slept two hours, unpacked, dozed in a patch of sunlight on the bed while the kids blew all their webkinz cash and ran wild. Then forced myself up to do run/walk in sunshine. Ran 10-minute miles but have to alternate between run/walk to […]
exercise
Overkill in one sport? The power of cross training
For the last few years I’ve biked nearly every day of the summer. But my progress has ground to a halt. Each summer it happens because a) I get comfortable doing the same routine, b) I like comfortable and I like routine, and c) my body grows accustomed to my biking and therefore is unimpressed […]
Skate skiing
Snow had fallen so delicately on the ski trail that it appeared as if the groomer had never passed, the crystals falling into the grooved corduroy as if hand-placed every half-inch to fill in the pattern. She was only a month into skate skiing. Just two weeks ago, she had stood on the trail, barely […]