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• Tri-Training with anemia. It’s lazy, that’s all I can say.  Hard to feel like I’m going to make my race goal when I have 6 day stints away from the gym. But today’s work out was pretty good and I’ll just keep keepin’ on. To help:

1. I’m looking for other ways to get iron. I currently take a supplement and eat iron-rich foods on the worst days. But I wonder if there’s something else I could be doing…and no, liquid iron ain’t it! GROSS.
2. I never drink sports drinks or eat energy bars (bad memories of stealing Amway bars out of my parent’s basement when I was a kid… nasty little vitamin tasting things disguised as candy bars. Double GROSS). But Brian has been making his own sports drinks and I’m curious. Who else makes their own stuff from real food?
3. Shoes are still shot and goal or no goal, I’ve just got other financial priorities than shoes and a bike. So for now, I’ve switched to the elliptical machines because there’s no impact. It has made for an interesting change in my work outs…distance is harder and there is more butt-emphasis (which is not really a bad thing LOL).

• Living the alarm clock life.  The kids starting school has gone amazingly well. They love it, are doing much, much better than predicted by those who tested them, and they are excited every day to go. I’ve kept up the routine of laying out clothes and packing lunches at night so that we have easier mornings. But I’m also getting up earlier a lot of mornings to get in some quiet work time and make their breakfast.  I’m even getting enough sleep most nights, based on the fact that I often wake up naturally, 5 minutes before my alarm goes off.  But I’m no morning person. I think what I miss most about homeschooling is the pace…the relaxed hours of time together (quantity DOES matter) and the rhythm of living naturally, sleeping and rising when it your body wants to.

1. I’m using my cell phone and trying different sounds. If you use an alarm clock, what sounds do you wake to? We also have a rooster getting ready to strut his stuff; he’ll be competing with anything I choose.
2. Bedtime still has to be strict; every moment of my weekday is regimented, which leads to it’s own form of exhaustion.  Sabbath rest just became even more important. Our Sundays have always been my favorite day of the week anyway, with their mix of church, friends, food, naps, and now football :-).
3. COFFEE. All summer, the drink of choice has been “iced with whole milk, no sweetener”. And I go back and forth on adding espresso shots based on my schedule that day, but I manage to keep it to about one a week and just one or two cups a day otherwise.

But still….coffee, rest, and a soft alarm later, I still struggle to anything other than auto-pilot before 10 am. Anyone have ideas to help hit the ground running?

There’s other stuff contributing to fatigue but I can’t blog about ‘em. So I’m focusing on what I *can* work on….maybe having learned something from that serenity prayer after all.

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