After my long break from running I was pretty excited to recondition. Running is a great sport with little kids as you can expend a lot of energy in a short amount of time without the need for any special location or gear. Jakob was also excited that one of us could run again and has been great at making sure I have time to run even if it means hiking alone with four kids while I run the trail.
Lucky for us we have a great local mountain - Mont Coolum. It is a short 2km round trip but it is an intense climb made up mostly stairs. It is so steep that it is pretty hard to run up without feeling like you need to vomit, which means it is just our kind of mountain. Stairs mean Jakob can expend a lot of energy without running. Though even not running he can still make it up and down in 21 minutes. It also has the advantage of being a 10 minute drive away so we are able to make it from door to trailhead to mountaintop and back in under an hour.
My secret hope for Jakob was that not sitting at a computer all day would allow his back to recover. I’m not sure if that has happened or is even in the process of happening, but we were pretty happy to discover that after a year’s break he can run again! He was inspired by a particularly nice trail run to give it a go and it went well. Meaning I suppose that he wasn’t uncomfortable and worse off later. We know you are supposed to build up this exercise thing. When I taught a Running Room clinic the less fit would spend a few months building up to 5 kilometers. I am not sure that anyone would recommend restarting up exercise postpartum by running up mountains. I think, though, that we both must have some muscle memory (or be foolish) as within a week we went from not having run in months to doing 7 kilometer trail runs. As pretty clean-living people, running is one great source of endorphin release so we both have been high with the thrill of a run. And good thing too, as we need all the high we can get to handle the newest wave of tantrums Tova has unleashed on us.
Lucky for us we have a great local mountain - Mont Coolum. It is a short 2km round trip but it is an intense climb made up mostly stairs. It is so steep that it is pretty hard to run up without feeling like you need to vomit, which means it is just our kind of mountain. Stairs mean Jakob can expend a lot of energy without running. Though even not running he can still make it up and down in 21 minutes. It also has the advantage of being a 10 minute drive away so we are able to make it from door to trailhead to mountaintop and back in under an hour.
My secret hope for Jakob was that not sitting at a computer all day would allow his back to recover. I’m not sure if that has happened or is even in the process of happening, but we were pretty happy to discover that after a year’s break he can run again! He was inspired by a particularly nice trail run to give it a go and it went well. Meaning I suppose that he wasn’t uncomfortable and worse off later. We know you are supposed to build up this exercise thing. When I taught a Running Room clinic the less fit would spend a few months building up to 5 kilometers. I am not sure that anyone would recommend restarting up exercise postpartum by running up mountains. I think, though, that we both must have some muscle memory (or be foolish) as within a week we went from not having run in months to doing 7 kilometer trail runs. As pretty clean-living people, running is one great source of endorphin release so we both have been high with the thrill of a run. And good thing too, as we need all the high we can get to handle the newest wave of tantrums Tova has unleashed on us.
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| This mango is as big as my head! |
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| Post-run nap on the beach. Spot the baby! |
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| Tova with her baby... |
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| ...and Sophia with her bettong |
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| Trail kids |
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| Sophia surveys the Glasshouse Mountains from atop Mt. Ngungun |
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| The hump in the distance is our beloved Mt. Coolum. The girl in the foreground is our beloved Roo. |
Miss you guys!! I hope this burst of running means it has cooled down somewhat. Also...Jakob, do your back exercises even if you're feeling great! That is all.
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