Here’s what I don’t get: I am eating more healthfully than ever and exercising on a daily basis. Up until I started training for my upcoming 68 mile cycling event I was a junk food addict and a half-hearted athlete. Now that I am committed to retooling my body into a precision cycling machine, why the heck am I getting sick every other day?
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This past sunday I took it upon myself to load up my road bike and head to the countryside for some serious cycling. The intention was to ride a minimum of twenty miles, but by mile twelve I was toast. I couldn’t understand why I was so exhausted since I’ve been working SO HARD to build up my endurance! I came home feeling pretty dejected but by Monday, when it was time to ride with other members of the cycling team, I was ready to give it another try.
I had an extra thirty minutes before I was scheduled to meet with my trainer at the gym this morning. As some of you know, I’m in training to ride in a 65K cycling event in Colorado in May. A committed athlete always sees free time as a bonus opportunity to get in a good cardio session. Me? I went to Starbucks instead.
Normally I would never inflict a discussion that involved the subject of “poop” on anyone, except that I am so proud of myself this morning that I just have to share!
Three weeks ago I started a 90 day challenge to lose ten pounds and get in shape to ride in a 65 mile cycling event out in Colorado in May. For the record, I am NOT a cyclist. In fact when I got roped into this challenge, I hadn’t been on a bike since I was twelve. But the event is a fundraiser for YoungLife, a youth group in which my daughter is very active, so I thought I could have some fun, do some good, and maybe even score a few “cool” points with my teenager. Also, despite my relatively healthy, active lifestyle, in the last year or so an annoying layer of fatness has begun to envelope myfitness. Apparently, after one enters their fifties, the body stops using calories to produce energy, and just stores them up as fat on our butts, presumably to cushion the inevitable falls that come with old age.
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Trish Higgins Kurowski (Mom With A Mic) is the proud mother of Annie Kathryn, 15, and Grace Xiaobao, 8. Married for the past 18 years to John Kurowski (yes… of Hollywood Hills High football fame…) she has been toiling in the fields of media for over 3 decades as a television producer, radio talk show host, and feature writer for magazines and parenting publications. She is a mediocre cook, a neophyte cyclist and a marathon runner wanna-be.
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