If you would have told me a month ago that I would be able to run 20 minutes, or 3.5km without buckling over and crying like an baby without its bottle, I would put down my bag of corn chips, take a sip of my beer and laugh you out of the room. Yet, two days ago, at 6:43am, I slid on my 10 year-old … [Read more...]
Loving the burn
So our UrbanMoms team is over half way through our fundraising goal with 16 total members! Click here to check our progress. As far my own progress, I started week five of my own running program, (couch to 5km) which means upping the running portion of the program to an eight-minute run without … [Read more...]
Go Team UrbanMoms!
So I don't think I am ever going to love running. Sure there is an exhilarating feeling once I arrive back at home wheezing, knowing I completed a stage of my training. But the actual act of running, where my chest burns and my legs ache and sweat pours through all my lovely nooks and crannies as I … [Read more...]
Basically training
So I went for a run. Well it started off as sitting at a picnic table at a campsite near Lake Huron and staring at my dirty old sneakers. I thought, if there was a time and place to begin my journey and train for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure, this is certainly a … [Read more...]
Running with purpose
Earlier this year I had the opportunity to work on a communications program to raise awareness for a charity. It was through where I work (yes I have a day job) and it involved following 28 volunteers as they trained and eventually climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, all the while raising money through … [Read more...]
The Beginning Of The End – part 2
We arrived at the hospital yesterday morning at 7:30am for Eva's first round of sedated laser on her hemangioma. We checked in and were taken into a prep room. The nurse came to do the paperwork and take Eva's vitals. The plan was then to give her an oral sedative and then to apply a topical … [Read more...]
The Beginning Of The End – part 1
It is almost 5 years to the day that Eva was rushed to Sick Kids hospital via emergency ambulance. She was in need of an urgent transfusion because her hemangioma was so severely ulcerated and she had bled out profusely. It was her third bleed. We didn't come home for 6 days. Prior to that … [Read more...]
Getting Around Town
Madame's half-day camp is miles and miles and miles away from our house.(Okay, it's maybe one-and-a-half kilometres, and about a 15 minute walk, and much longer with a pokey four-year-old in tow.)Now that the stroller is completely out of our lives, we're really left to being on foot when we go … [Read more...]
Fitness Frenzy
If this post seems a bit dèja vu, it may be because Erin posted about the same thing last week! (And Sara did a few months back as well) I thought I'd share what I've been up to since I seem to have my mojo back. It all started with this I had gotten into some seriously bad habits resulting in … [Read more...]
And so it continues….
Two months ago - I wrote this - I was turning 43. I was tired, sick all the time, depressed. I decided to make some changes in my lifestyle - diet, exercise, brain power! Two weeks later - it stalled. I screwed my neck up really badly. Guys - it was AWFUL. I couldn't move. Physio, massage, … [Read more...]