I have spent a groggy, hazy week trying hard to cut down my caffeine intake, with unimpressive results.
And guess what? Turns out, according to my own un-scientific research, caffeine does not impact my bladder's lack of control quite as much as I had previously thought. By a magical stroke of luck, I secured babysitters each morning this weekend and set out to jog early as opposed to my normal late-afternoon, after-work routine. And the effects of gravity and pavement seemed far kinder in the morning, even post-two-cups-of-coffee, then they were late in the day. Maybe the cumulative effects of my daily intake render my bladder useless after 4 p.m. And while I have discovered I can typically survive an afternoon at work without a second Diet Coke, my level of fuzziness in the morning without that second (or...third...) cup of coffee just makes life seem not worth living.
I am finding an added benefit to running, one I hadn't anticipated when I first picked up the habit...problem solving. Running has presented all sorts of challenges in my life, and instead of giving up, it's interesting to find ways to work around them. Shin splints? Stretch before you run. Babysitters? Plan for them, lots of them. Two miles takes a half hour away from your child and makes you a better mother, so ditch the guilt. Chronic pants-wetting? Work in progress, but we're getting there.
It feels good to have a healthy challenge in my life this year, as opposed to 2010's disastrous set of problems. The further I run, the more I push my body, the more I feel like I am in control of my life.
And that feels good.
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You GO girl!!!
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Right on!! I won't ruin your day by telling you I heard this morning that a new study found that people in our age demographic who drink one or more diet sodas per day are at a 47% higher risk to stroke out. Who funds these studies? Obviously too much time and money on their hands. Not to mention not enough brains. Whatever.
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