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It's become really, really obvious that I HAVE to start having some kind of regularly scheduled, top priority exercise time frame every day, that I turn down other things because of and build my day around, period. I know it can be done. Nancy gets up EVERY SINGLE DAY - including when she's traveling, including when people are staying at her house, including when it's the dead of winter in Boston - and either walks or swims briskly (indoors) for 30 minutes. I have no doubt this is part of her being fit, energetic and mentally with it to a degree that her students find hard to keep up with, as she turns 70. You just have to decide it's important and make it a habit. With Nancy, I know she has at least stuck with it since I was pregnant with Elise - and Elise just turned 8.

I just walked a couple of laps on a track at a park, with some stretching in between, and now my thighs hurt O_O I mean, this was not a long arduous walk! Good grief. But other than about 15 hilly minutes on Sunday, that caused me to break out in a sweat, I haven't walked further than necessary to change rooms or get to and from a car, for a week. Combined with waaaaay too many hours driving, I feel pretty gross (sore in some places, stiff in others, mildly irritable whenever I haven't stretched for a bit...)

I suppose my easiest in would be to commit to walking Isaac to school, that would just mean I need to get back from taking A&A a bit earlier, so he doesn't run late...and, I'm not sure how it would go on days when Grant offers to take them all and let me sleep an extra hour - do I give that precious sleep up? What about weekends and holidays? Our days are SO variable, which is kinda the issue here.

I take a lot of walks with Jake and Elise during school days, but by a lot, honestly, I lately mean 1-2 per week. Which is not enough exercise. And Jake, who is not on the roller derby team with everybody else and doesn't play outside as often, needs to be moving around more, too. The rainy season is about to start again and throw another variable at us...

I'll figure something out. Here, have a SoundCloud link about the solo road trip I just went on, Sat morning-Mon night:

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Walk at home

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I've used the Leslie Sansone walk at home videos. We've gotten DVDs from Netflix and done some that are on YouTube. It helps cut down on my excuses: too hot, too cold, raining=air conditioned living room; don't feel like getting dressed=just put your shoes on; don't have enough time=some are only 5 minutes, most can be broken down into 15 minute segments (I can do them on a break in my office). Good luck! I need to get back to it myself.