Running...OW!

[marydell]

I guess I quit running right around the time we started the domestic adoption process--January or Feb of this year.  I wasn't running any kind of impressive distance--a mile was my record, and I had to take walking breaks.  Usually I was running a half mile with a couple of walk breaks.  Still, better than nothing.  But I was depressed about the neverending quest for a baby and just didn't feel like working toward another effing impossible goal (that being: getting my old athsmatic ass to run 3 miles in a row).  So bleah, I quit, temporarily, I figured.

So...today my baby is 8 weeks old, so I got my old athsmatic ass off the couch and ran a half mile.  OUCH!  Apparently there are these muscles in the backs of my ankles that I ONLY use for running, because they've been as dormant as King Arthur, judging by the way they're screaming now.

But...I ran! Yay.

(Edited:  In case you're a new reader, I feel I should point out that I did not give birth to my child, so going running 8 weeks after his arrival is not heroic.)

Comments

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

...so I got my old athsmatic ass off the couch and ran a half mile.

As a new mom of an 8 wk old I'm sure you're well aware that it's all about the baby steps.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

groan!

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

You may whap my bald head at will. :p

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

the neverending quest for a baby

Is that the title of your next literary project?

[marydell.livejournal.com]

LOL! My memoir, I think. Although now that I have a baby (but still want another) it'll have to be something like Quest for Babies.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I noticed something very interesting about my 1.5-year-old nephew, last time I was in the Bay Area. The little guy, having decided that I was a great reader of stories, kept bringing books to me. He'd look at the huge stack on the couch, would select one book, change his mind, and would put the book back on the couch, not tossing it down on the floor, before he came across the story he had decided was the proper one. I hope he doesn't outgrow this tendency to keep things in their proper place.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Hee, not likely! It's cool when the nephews and nieces figure out that you can read. When my next-youngest brother's kids realized I had the same magic ability as their parents, they suddenly thought I was AWESOME.