Fitting it in

Isn't it amazing how committed one has to be to do keep doing something that is actually so good for oneself?

I started to tell people that I think you can only be a motivated runner, if you actually like running (and torturing yourself ones in a while). I find it hard enough to figure out how to make the time to run as often as I want to, but I continue to look for ways, because I like how I feel. But if I didn't like running and had to convince myself to get out there and do it purely on the basis that it is supposed to be good for me, I would probably explode with excuses that I needed to do other things. So my kudos to anybody who has been able to do that.

I have been contemplating this week to change my work schedule to allow me to work out right after work, instead of having to rely on our darling daughter to fall asleep quickly enough, so I can go later in the evening. For some reason I find it easier to wake up early to go to work, then to go running. That might just be the winter blues.We don't want to switch our daughter's schedule, making it the goal to have her stay asleep while mommy rises early.

Running in the late evening hasn't worked out so well for me. Either I feel like I am running with a brick in my stomach, because dinner hasn't completely settled down or I fall asleep with the little one and am completely out of it by the time she is finally asleep.

So, we have been giving it a try that I wake up earlier to see, if I could do an earlier work time. Three days into it I can report that so far it has been a complete failure. The first morning, I woke up just in time, moved my foot and had to discover that she was laying there and promptly woke up. Second day, I tried to have her stay asleep in her own bed, so I wouldn't wake her up and can sneak out of the room. Well, I spend most of my night next to her bed freezing to get her to fall back asleep. Unfortunately every time she did, I still stayed awake for a while longer. In the morning I was completely exhausted and she still got up early with me. Third morning, she is the one waking me up just before the early alarm goes off. I gave up, let her be up early and went running in the morning.

We'll see where we go from here...Maybe I keep my work time and get her trained to bring me my running clothes right to bed, so I go running early in the morning...but I am sure, if I make that my plan, she'll decide to sleep longer