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I am a mom who balances my career as a reading specialist with parenting a 1.5 year old and loving competitive running and biking. I don't think women should give up personal goals when they become parents.
Out of the thirty-five or so eager souls who had risen at the crack of dawn to practice for the Shamrock Du, the first two whom I met are also working mothers. I met Jamie and Karen, who both have young children, before we took off for our 13mile r ... Read more...
I have been thinking about how the calories in, calories burned model should be so straightforward, but it really isn’t. Are some women’s magazines giving advice to strong, healthy women to eat 1500 calories per day? I understand ... Read more...
In less than one month, I’ll be taking part in a bike race that happens to be sandwiched between 5K runs. I haven’t met many other moms who take on competition with the level of intensity that I do. Last week I took advantage of being on scho ... Read more...
“Watch out for Balls” reads the sign in the private, ocean-front, golf-course that I pass through on my weekly long runs. In addition to posting a sensible fear, this sign is also a signal for me to literally speed up. My mom’s best friend wa ... Read more...
Since there are so few practicing Catholics in my generation, my own mother did double duty at my daughter’s baptismal ceremony as grandmother and godmother. I found the perfect gift for her, a pair of gold studded, cranberry colored Ugg sand ... Read more...
If you were a really unfortunate member of my gym two year ago, you might have seen a glimpse of my protruding tomato-colored belly before I ducked into the locker room. For the last ten weeks of my pregnancy in 2010, I sported an orange-red, size ... Read more...
“It’s only hair you know,” I told my mother in law last week. She had agreed to watch my daughter during my hair appointment at the mall, even though she was helping her mother in law plan her father in law’s funeral. My daughter’s great grandpa, a ... Read more...
For two nights in a row now, I have refused dessert. I entered my late thirties today and celebrated with a quick four mile run after the faculty meeting. My parents offered me cake, but after a dinner of creamy-dressed salad and gourmet burgers, I ... Read more...
“Thin” has long been a word that I associate with eating disorders, not athletics. When another working mother said to me the other day, “Runners are so thin, I wish I could run long distances” I ignored her comment and instead invited her and her ... Read more...
Last year when I competed in a duathalon in my town, my daughter was only eleven months old. Still nursing, pumping and extremely sleep deprived, I was surprised to have completed the bookended 5K’s at slighly less than an 8 minute mile pace ... Read more...
