DUH!!! September 18 2005
Ok..so last week while feeling mountains of sorry for myself, I realized that I cannot train for a half marathon in November by only running on the weekends when Chris is home from work.
So I whined and bitched and moaned…and yes…whined somemore.
THen I was over at Sean’s and he was talking about his stationary bike and it hit me like zuchinni bread. I have a FABULOUS stationary bike…it’s even fancy! So I can hop on that every night or even every afternoon…and then fit in as many runs as possible on the weekends….at definately my long ones.
What do you think? Possible? Impossible? OK…but now…you have to help figure out how many MILES on a stationary will equal 10 KM of running in Hilly northern ontario?
I figure 2 hours a ride on varying degrees of resistance and I should be ok..at least cardiovascularly (say that 5 times fast).
Also…I need to join a gym…not sure if any around here offer child care though…
Maybe my mom will lend me her treadmill.
Doubt it.
First you should juggle around that running schedule a bit and see just how many runs you are missing. Two back to back runs might be tough on the weekend though.
I’m not sure how to equate riding to running, but you will need that bike for crosstraining days definately. Don’t let those slack, so get on the bike. And I say push Mom hard for the treadmill. Pull out all the stops, take the gloves off, use any weapon (guilt) in your arsenal. You need that treadmill!
Lots of gyms have child care so look into that for certain. Also, at my gym there’s a babysitting list of the girls that work there that also do that. That might come in handy too.
Man, running was hard enough with one baby in a stroller how am I going to run with two?
ALL of our gyms have daycares, but they’re all at weird hours…bah.