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Fastest thing on two feet

By Me | April 19, 2008

Spouse and I spent most of the day in Ithaca, NY, where the Ithaca Bombers Men’s and Women’s Track Team won the 2008 Empire 8 championship meet.

Gina is happy.

I have my work cut out for me because I’m going to be helping her train over the summer, after she gets done with her summer courses. And, I realize, this presents a very good opportunity for me.

You know, when I first started exercising, I didn’t do it to lose weight. I didn’t even do it to tone the bod. I first started working out because I’d slipped a disc carrying baby David around and the chiropractor gave me some good advice about posture and proper support for the lower back through reasonably tight abdominal muscles and a bunch of stuff like that.

The advice appealed to me a lot more than an orthopedic surgeon telling me not to move for the next six months.

When I started working out, I discovered a lot of things about it that I liked. One of them was the fact that the exercise made it easier for me to keep up with my babies. All those times that I had to sprint across the quad at Brooklyn College, chasing baby Gina and hauling her back before baby David got a chance to make a break for freedom wouldn’t have been possible without those workouts.

So now, I find, I need to step up the pace of my workouts. This summer, I’m going to have to keep up with no-longer-baby Gina. She’s a lot faster now, so I’m going to have to train a lot harder.

It’ll be good for me.

(Just call me Haruna … )

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One Response to “Fastest thing on two feet”

  1. All About G » It’s a definite Says:
    April 21st, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    […] want to get even faster and better and running and jumping. So, along with training this summer, I’m going to figuring out my 100 and 200 strategies; mainly, how far I should accelerate […]