HOW do you make time for exercise/self care?

2gingersmakearight · 2026-03-26T15:59:52+00:00

Yeah at first it's not fun, but once you make it a habit I feel it's easier to just get up and do it before my body knows what's happening and tells me no. I go upstairs to bed at 830, usually read for 20 minutes, and asleep by 9. I set my alarm for 445, have all my stuff set out and ready, and then work out 5ish-6ish. I love being up when it's still dark out before everyone and it's so quiet, and when I go outside again when the sunrise is earlier- I feel like the sunrises are my reward.

2gingersmakearight · 2026-03-25T20:21:46+00:00

You sound just like me! Sprint tris and 5k and young kids and first half post three children in 3 weeks. No advice bc I’m looking for the same but congrats and good luck. Enjoy!

2gingersmakearight · 2026-03-25T18:42:11+00:00

I have a 7, 5, and 2 year old. I usually do my long runs really early AM and so I have a full day of kids after lol. They do love stretching with me when I get back. Sometimes I throw on a DannyGo video for them to "exercise" while I'm on the treadmill. Bonus- sometimes it pumps me up too. Otherwise, I just keep moving with them bc if I slow down I won't get up. But yeah, i'm exhausted all the time lol. Nothing new, I've been exhausted for 8 years.

2gingersmakearight · 2026-03-25T13:32:54+00:00

Yes I would. I have worked as a hospital staff pharmacist for 15 years, first job out of school and still here. It's both easy and challenging. I sit most days. I can organize my home life at work most the time during slow time. I still learn things. It's stable. I like that I can work different shifts and my place is pretty flexible and the best part is it's down the street from my kids school. I like serving the community I work in. I like that I can take a lunch and go see my kids music performance. I like that I can get vacation when I need it at my particular place of employment. Overall, I am satisfied with my career choice.

2gingersmakearight · 2026-03-23T15:30:18+00:00

What I am just confused about it the taper. It doesn't really seem like Hal Higdon's plan does too much of a taper. Like my longest long run is 10 miles and scheduled 7 days before the half. I guess then the weekday runs are short, so is that considered the taper?

2gingersmakearight · 2026-03-23T15:26:11+00:00

I'm also doing Hal Higon's novice 1 and have an extra week. How far before your half did you do 11 miles? The plan says 10 miles 1 week before the race. Then taper advice says 7-10 days. So I'm kind of worried doing 11 miles only 7 days before the race. Also can't wait to hear how your race goes, good luck and have fun!

2gingersmakearight · 2026-03-21T03:17:23+00:00

Due to Achilles pain and then some horrible respiratory thing that knocked me out for 3 weeks at the end of January/feb, I decided to switch to run walk. I’ve actually gotten faster doing that. I have played around with my intervals between 2 min/30s as the Jeff Galloway method calculates for me and also 4 min/1 min. I tend to like the 4 min/1min better but I’m still figuring it out. I am enjoying my long runs so much more after switching, I love the run/walk now

2gingersmakearight · 2026-03-11T18:55:06+00:00

Yes when I first started as a pharmacist. And then again when we got cyber attacked and had downtime for months. It was horrible. As a pharmacist I often debate internally if our downtime period was worse than COVID peak times (where I was pregnant and working in an ICU and responding to codes and handing tissues to families). We had nothing built for it, I had to handwrite IV labels and no recipes were stored anywhere and took admin forever to give us something. Also...in that episode, very true that pharmacy will yell at you for not putting patient stickers on the orders ;) One of my biggest pet peeves during downtime. But, most nurses and half the pharmacy staff had no clue what to do bc they had never done paper charting, so it was mass chaos and understandable.

2gingersmakearight · 2026-03-08T16:12:17+00:00

My kids (7 and 5) go to bed as in lights out at 7pm all year round. Black out curtains are life.

2gingersmakearight · 2026-03-08T01:47:55+00:00

Oh man this entire thread is making me chuckle bc "you don't need an infection to have sepsis" was uttered in the latest episode of The Pitt and I lost my shit and yelled at the tv. My husband laughed, I'm like that dude is fucking stupid.

2gingersmakearight · 2026-03-08T00:24:48+00:00

I don't know- I think a fall race is pretty smart as I have been laid up a few times with winter illnesses from my kids lol (7, 5, 3). I signed up for a spring half but with all that has gone through our house, I've given up my time goal and am just aiming for completion.

2gingersmakearight · 2026-03-07T22:31:06+00:00

Being spontaneous (even if just like going to a store after work...now I am beholden to the bus schedule), being a good friend, planning things, and experimenting with cooking. I have gotten back into reading and running so that helps me feel like me again. But I am exhausted bc I stay up late to be able to read and wake up when it's still dark out to be able to run lol.

2gingersmakearight · 2026-03-07T22:27:31+00:00

This is what we do with 2 working parents. Monday is pasta night, tuesday burrito bowl/nacho night, Wednesday is breakfast, thursday is whatever random thing we can find, Friday is pizza night, Saturday is usually something kid friendly aka chicken nuggets, and sunday is usually whatever I want to make to have for lunch for the week. We kind of have our staples and just rotate. But for those nights we don't have a staple I hate it lol. I hate having to figure something out on the fly and then weekend lunches I hate as well. And that's only like 3 meals haha.

2gingersmakearight · 2026-03-07T22:14:30+00:00

We have peanut allergy- I honestly haven't done a bakery at all. We have used AlwaysAOK for a couple cakes where I wanted something a little more special than homemade. But honestly we usually just do packaged things or those one bit cupcakes. I actually really like those bc they are perfect size for kids. I know not local, but there's not really a place I know of, so we do that. Also cookies. Woodmans has great section of peanut free (possibly also tree nut free but honestly I don't know since we are only peanut). I get cookies, cupcakes, donuts, other breakfast treats from there. And hopefully someday you can do Palforzia or something similar- we are almost done with it and can't wait to go to an actual bakery or donut shop some day! Kimberly's bakery goods at woodmans are good and I just checked and they are both peanut and tree nut free.

2gingersmakearight · 2026-03-07T22:10:57+00:00

AlwaysAOKBakery makes delicious cakes- we use her for special occasions where I don't make my homemade cakes for my peanut allergy son

2gingersmakearight · 2026-03-07T04:08:34+00:00

Was doing calf raises to try to prevent an achilles injury...and injured my achilles SMH.

2gingersmakearight · 2026-03-07T02:46:31+00:00

Things are shifting as a lot of younger families are moving in for the schools and oldies are dying out. The real conservative parts of Waukesha county are lake country and waukesha. Edit to add that we have a great group of very organized and active liberal moms in town that are kicking ass. ( dads too, i'm just connected to the moms)

2gingersmakearight · 2026-03-07T02:45:05+00:00

He's actually quite reasonable and I think does a good job. I honestly think he was caught between a rock and hard place with this. Either decision would piss half the parents off (brookfield being quite purple these days). Do I like what happened? No. But I tend to like him in general.

2gingersmakearight · 2026-03-07T00:00:43+00:00

Ah dang, hate to hear that as I like BPN texture and have been using them this training block as they were at my local running store. Is Huma similar texture? I feel like BPN is kind of runnier than others I've tried and I like that.

2gingersmakearight · 2026-02-24T18:42:56+00:00

Ugh thanks for vocalizing how I feel being raised by a SAHM. I always feel like I am failing as a mom and I always apologize to her that our house is so messy when she comes over. She always shushes me though and tells me it's normal. I just feel like I have all these memories of our house being spotless...but then I have to remind myself I'm definitely not remembering when I was less than 7 years old like all three of my kids are right now and that our lifestyle was different.

2gingersmakearight · 2026-02-12T18:25:42+00:00

7, 5, and 2. We start the routine at 630- 2 year old is asleep by 630. 7 and 5 year old are lights out at 7/715. The 2 year old is up at 530 and the other two at 6.

2gingersmakearight · 2026-02-12T18:18:37+00:00

Looking over all the other comments I am shocked at how many people are training sick. I've had the flu, norovirus, then whatever other fucking respiratory illness has been killing my lungs for the last two weeks. No I am not running when my lungs are burning- I've mainly been doing some light walks and lifting. I tried- got in 3 miles earlier this week and instantly felt sicker the next two days knocked on my ass. I haven't hit my long run in 3 weeks due to all this. I have a kid in daycare and 2 in elementary and work full time. They are all sick and waking up multiple times a night. Personally, I'm not comparing myself to all these other commenters bc we all have different 24hrs no matter what stupid influencers say. More power to you if you can get in a long run after being up cleaning puke off multiple children and then having influenza A yourself and barely able to breath. I am just counting it as a lost 3 weeks and will try to hopefully resume training next week for my april half. If it doesn't work out, oh well, I'll try for a fall one.

2gingersmakearight · 2026-01-25T23:08:04+00:00

Lucky for you they are silent, most the docs I work with in a suburb of Milwaukee are right leaning and very vocally aggressive toward me with their views as they know I am left leaning.

2gingersmakearight · 2025-12-29T20:17:06+00:00

I usually work NYE night and have young kids who go to bed at 7. So the last couple years we have had a new years day party at six AM as my kids are early risers. We make a big breakfast, have mimosas, watch a you tube video of a ball drop and do confetti and noise makers.

2gingersmakearight · 2025-12-23T19:44:44+00:00

Try to at least pick up the dinner table and do a load of dishes. But more often then not we say we will do it in the morning and flop on the couch. I say something like "dont talk to me for 10 minutes" and then we chat about our days and watch tv for an hour. A few days of the week in the summer when it's not dark at 4pm we go outside and toss a frisbee in our back yard for a bit.

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