You make time when there’s no time. You hack the baby monitor to run lapse around your house. Your kids know what Gu and Nuun are. You are a badass mother runner. Here are the telltale signs, compliments of our fabulously innovative and tough Facebook crew:
10. When you FaceTime your iPad from your iPhone as a video monitor after your kids have gone to sleep and run .25 mile laps past the front of your house to get your run in.
9. When you look forward to running a half marathon on the weekend as your “break” from regular mom life (Scouts, PTA, sports activities, academic clubs, etc.).
8. When your child comes in your room at 4:45 am and says she was having a bad dream and asks is she can climb in bed with you, and you whisper to her, “okay, but I’m getting out of bed in 15 minutes to go run.”
7. Doing a Ragnar Relay when your baby is seven months old and you pump numerous times in the van and keep it in the team’s cooler.
6. While lacing up your shoes you hear one of your kids say, “She’s going for a run, dude. Leave her alone. She needs to go.”
5. When your 4-miler turns into an 8-miler to retrace your steps looking for various items that were thrown out of the stroller during a temper tantrum (that you ignored. Because, “runner”).
4. When you and your BRF can run side-by-side for an hour–and never once mention the kids because you’re too busy hashing out details of your next race.
3. Your children have opinions about the best flavor of energy gel.
2. When you get up before the Marines on base to do your run so that you can be finished before your Marine husband goes to work.
1. The 4 year old knows she can play dress up with all your shoes, even the fancy ones. Except for your running shoes.
Ladies, anything to add? Drop yours in the comments section below.
When every birthday and Christmas, you only want running gear: clothes, watches, gear, race entries! But not shoes, because those are under the “necessity” category and do not fall under “gifts.” (It would be like receiving toilet paper for Christmas…you were going to buy it anyway, so save the Christmas gifts for something else!)
Oh, number 1. Yes. So yes. I might add, when I don’t run, my kids think I am deathly ill and tiptoe around me. :)
Empty nester now, but back in the day, my young son asking in his sweet little voice “how did you do in your age group Mom?”
#9 last weekend. And two more scheduled before the end of the year.
These are all great!
Thank you for the distraction from the news today! :)
Your kids know better than to jump on the BOSU.
When your family knows the bags of peas in the freezer are not for eating!
Your child knows to check the basement to see if you’re running on the treadmill when they wake up in the morning and don’t answer their question if they can get out of bed.
Also, you’re children don’t get the concept that their other parent doesn’t run. My son’s father and I are not together and I guess my son frequently asks his dad why he doesn’t run as much as I do and that he’d be happier and healthier if he did.
When your kids have their own set of bells (that may have come in the form of a gift in their Christmas stocking) to take to races and be your cheering section.