Winners of the 5 Champion Sports Bras (Finally!)
I forgot to pick up my kids after school on Thursday. I was at a program at said school with Ben, my first grader, until about 2:30, then headed home, thinking our neighbor was getting them at 3:30. When I pulled out of the driveway at 3:45 to run an errand–and saw her car in her driveway–I freaked. And then I realized she was getting them on Friday, not Thursday, and today was Thursday.
That’s a small slice of where my head has been this week, so it’s no wonder that we forgot to award the Five Champion Sports Bras from this Hump Day Giveaway. Thankfully, Genevieve on our Facebook page reminded me of the oversight…
Drum Roll for the NordicTrack Treadmill Winner!
Thank you all for taking time to vote for the best six-word sentence for the drool-worthy NordicTrack Commercial 1750 Treadmill; Samantha is the winner! Samantha, you lucky duck, please email us at runmother at gmail dot com and we’ll set you up with the ‘mill, as well as delivery and installation. (Huge thanks to NordicTrack, btw: we’re making your company an honorary mother runner…think a badass mother runner shirt would fit over the display screen on a treadmill?)
If you’re one of the 1,400+, including me and Sarah, who didn’t win, here’s a little something to start your day. It’s not a brand spankin’ new NordicTrack ‘mill installed for you, but it’s still pretty good…
Follow This Mother!
This holiday season is unlike any other for mother runner Jen Correa, husband Pedro and their two young children Pedro, 7, and Alyssa, 3. This Staten Island, NY family lost their home to Hurricane Sandy, though with help from family and friends they slowly are getting back on their feet. Jen, 37, who had trained to run this year’s NYC Marathon, found her way back to running thanks to fellow bloggers and friends who sent her running clothes and shoes (true friends indeed!). Says Jen of the sport that’s carried her through her 20s, getting married, having babies, being injured…and now through the devastation of losing so much: “Running is actually when I feel the most relaxed…
Hump Day Giveaway: 26 Acts of Kindness
Put good into the world.
That’s the guiding principle I try to live by, and the main value I want my kids to remember. It may sound naive and idealistic, but I want to leave this world a better place than I found it.
While that’s a great lifetime goal, the day-to-day application of it can get really hard. Despite the sign hanging in my kitchen, I am not always nice. I can easily forget what I so dearly need to remember when I’m dealing with long-division homework and whining kids who don’t want the dinner I made and a sore lower back and clumps of dog hair under every chair leg.
But as I said before, Newtown has touched a nerve so raw and so maternal, I can’t help but be back on task, reporting for duty…
(Almost) Wordless Tuesday: You Might Be a Mother Runner If…
Round two of You Might Be a Mother Runner If. (But I put reason #22 because there are about a gazillion reasons why…and we’ll likely get to at least a thousand of them.) I’ve started a collection of them here, in case you have a self-identity crisis and need a positive reflection of the (badass) mother runner you are.
And I know I asked for your suggestions last week on filling in the blank–You might be a mother runner if…–but we’ll happily take more in the comments below if you got ‘em. Thanks, friends.
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