About:writeontherun

Location:North Bend WA USA 98045

I'm a lucky woman who loves her life. I have an amazing husband who makes me laugh and challenges me all at the same time I have two very young, bright, funny, entertaining children and a job I love as a physcial therapist. In my free time, I'm a runner (slow but sure), a hiker, a writer (at least by avocation), and a human jungle gym for my little ones. This is my third 1/2 marathon, along with a couple fulls, but my first foray back into distance running since the two back-to-back little ones. (My running partner's favorite fact about me is that my kids are 363 days apart.) It's also my first attempt at any type of blogging, and I'm basically computer illiterate, so hang in there with me.



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Sled transportation system

January 27th, 2008 by writeontherun

After Kim and my “run” this morning (see the previous post), Kirk and I took the kids sledding. There’s a great sno-park about 25 minutes from our house that has a beginner sledding hill and an advanced one, I guess you’d call it. We bundled the kids up in their snow suits and boots, bundled the adults the same and started on the baby hill. After one run with me, my daughter demanded to “do it myself.” Keep in mind, she’s 2, so she wants to do everything “myself”. Off she went. On her tummy. Head first. In the snow. Laughing, laughing, laughing. She was a sledding champ. Once my son saw it, he was off as well. A few runs on the little hill and we moved up to the advanced spot. Now, this hill, while not huge, is a good ride and takes a couple minutes to hike back up. It’s covered in lanes and teenagers attempting to snowboard on their sleds, parents racing their kids and general tom-foolery. After one run with me, little miss independent wanted to “do it myself.” Off she went. On her tummy. Head first. Though the hoards. I ran down to meet her at the bottom to hear, “wow, nice run” from somebody. She was a two year old rocket on a sled. My son never got that brave, but he did take a bunch of rides with us.

So, how does this count as exercise for a fitness blog, you ask? We have 2 sleds, one that basically sucks, and one that holds an adult and child together, or one independent 2 year old. The kids walked the hill (we’re those mean parents who make our kids walk up instead of carrying them) but they took forever. There were stops for snow angels, treasure hunts and snow-cicles. My job was to run the sled up the hill to the other waiting child or parent. And, as I missed the run this morning, I really did run about 2/3 of them, until I was tired.

It was a blast of a day! We all had a ton of fun making snow angel families and snow men, sledding and running around. My husband and two kids are currently napping after the busy morning and I’m off to a baby shower. In a dress…

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  • Type: Other
  • Date: 01/27/2008
  • Time: 10:00:00
  • Total Time: 1:15:00.00

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