Ah, those waves of disease than come with having a kid in school... I'm past that now, but I feel your pain. But I take "embrace your illness" a different way — sickness can be an opportunity for an adversity run, where you can learn/practice how to keep going when things aren't great. Plus, running fixes things, and I almost always feel better after than before.
As a streaker, I'd turn your question around and ask how it's possible to keep running in the long term without having a streak (or a set of streaks) to tend to... I'm lazy and I procrastinate and if I didn't have some non-negotiables in my running, I doubt I'd still be doing it.
Thanks for sharing "Lucy's Dad" — it is very well done.
.. thanks for the empathy! I think I've got still a decade in front of me with kids in school. 🙈 And yes.. from time to time I think I do the same to get better, but I'm always frightened that it will get worse. Don't know why. During school and college it was kind of a mantra to go for a run in these situations. I don't feel fine, let's go for run, all the germs will die.
I'm getting old.
Maybe I'm a streaker too, but not with a goal "that high". I always try to implement at least one run a week. Managed two years until Covid19 struck in. The daily streak isn't manageable for me (but maybe it's more of mindset thing), especially with the kids and all the tasks around that and I think I'll tend to overdo it then.
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Lucy's Dad.... just wonderful! <3
Ah, those waves of disease than come with having a kid in school... I'm past that now, but I feel your pain. But I take "embrace your illness" a different way — sickness can be an opportunity for an adversity run, where you can learn/practice how to keep going when things aren't great. Plus, running fixes things, and I almost always feel better after than before.
As a streaker, I'd turn your question around and ask how it's possible to keep running in the long term without having a streak (or a set of streaks) to tend to... I'm lazy and I procrastinate and if I didn't have some non-negotiables in my running, I doubt I'd still be doing it.
Thanks for sharing "Lucy's Dad" — it is very well done.
.. thanks for the empathy! I think I've got still a decade in front of me with kids in school. 🙈 And yes.. from time to time I think I do the same to get better, but I'm always frightened that it will get worse. Don't know why. During school and college it was kind of a mantra to go for a run in these situations. I don't feel fine, let's go for run, all the germs will die.
I'm getting old.
Maybe I'm a streaker too, but not with a goal "that high". I always try to implement at least one run a week. Managed two years until Covid19 struck in. The daily streak isn't manageable for me (but maybe it's more of mindset thing), especially with the kids and all the tasks around that and I think I'll tend to overdo it then.