My fastest yassos ever and taking it back to the high school days…

You are so cute with your throwback playlist! Mine would totally have some Spice Girls, N’SYNC, Limp Bizkit, Shinedown, and Nickelback.

Some of those I can still listen to today; some not… ;)

Amazon Prime has a Playlist of one hit wonders and it reminds me of my younger days! P.S. I’m jealous of those peaches.

I listen to the 90’s station on Pandora when I run to get a good mix of music from my high school days (class of 96 :))..I am always rotating shoes and sometimes bring an extra pair when I am running long on the treadmill in the winter just in case my pick for that day isn’t working for me.

I am not looking forward to potty training! But I’m excited to know chocolate chips and gymnastic lessons can help with that! haha

I’m secure enough in my manhood to say….why doesn’t Brooks make Men’s PureCadence in that purple and blue?

I wear Asics GT-2170s for speed and races, but they won’t last too much longer and I will be sad like you are when you retire the Drifts. Because Asics doesn’t make them anymore either. I wear Hoka One One Bondi 3s that I got recently (last years model = cheap) for recovery runs, and I wear North Face Ultra Cardiacs for trail runs. I have a 4th pair for the dreadmill but those New Balance shoes aren’t worth mentioning. Those shoes have never seen pavement, which is why they go on the basement dreadmill. Keeps the ‘mill and the carpet clean.

About to start potty training with baby number 2. First one was a month away from 3 when she just said, I’m done with this. We packed diapers for a post-deployment trip to DisneyWorld. She used…not a single one.

Today was a recovery run from the Ten Miler – which I killed – on Sat. Yes, I was supposed to do that yesterday…but that didn’t happen.

Today was a stationary bike day. I have a tibial stress reaction…not yet a stress fracture, but still ordered to stay off my leg…right in the middle of marathon training. :( I love the Petey Pablo and Nelly song!! Totally going on my next long run playlist! Yay for Brooke! She is growing up so fast:)

Congrats on the yasso’s!!!

Potty Trainig Tips (this is what worked for my son)
1. If he had a diaper or pull up on he’d use it so I used underwear as much as possible.
2. When leaving the house I had my son wear underwear then put a pull up OVER the underwear. This way he felt the cotton of the underwear instead of the diaper-like material and he held it every.single.time.
3. After following #2 for a few weeks I got brave and just had my son in underwear. Every time we stopped in a store we used the potty then I had him
Use it before gettin back into the car. No accidents!
4. Always keep a spare of underwear, shorts, and wipes in the car. I’m over diaper bags so I keep both our cars stocked just in case.
5. A good potty routine morning, night, before and after naps etc really helps too but I figured u were already doing this :-)
6. My husband and I were very patient with this process and had our son kinda lead the way. When they’re ready they’re ready :-)
Good luck!!

Holy dude you killed that workout. I’m so excited to see you kill your marathon!

Way to go Brookers! I would be pretty darn motivated by those two things as well ;)

High school = hair bands and old songs from the 50’s and 60’s. ( I went to a lot of classic car nights at this local diner.)

Potty training tips…. I went completely child lead. (Which was hard with daycares that wanted to push it a bit.) We got a potty and put it in the bathroom and said she could use it if she wanted to. Then I waited ’til she asked for big girl panties like her friend had and played it super cool. “Hmm, I don’t know… I guess if you really want to try going on the potty we can give it a shot.” She was pretty much set in about a week.

I wear Mizuno’s to run and New Balance to lift.

Potty training. Wow … can’t wait to go through that again! lol!!
With my first I did a potty training boot camp type weekend. We spend 3 days staying home so we could knock it out of the park … and it worked!
I read potty related books to him for weeks leading up to this event and rented the potty training kit from the library (total waste for my son but it came with a doll & a potty that your daughter might like). Our favorite books were “Everyone Poops” and “The Potty Train”.
So back to the weekend – I had my son running around totally naked from the waist down on the first half of the first day and set a timer for 15 minutes and the second half the timer was set for 30-60 minutes. Every time it went off, we ran to the toilet (Baby Bjorn brand) and sang a song. If he used the toilet he got 1 M&M for peeing and 2 for pooping and A LOT OF PRAISE. I had him wearing underwear all day and pull ups at nap and night time. The second day I got rid of the time but asked every 30 minutes if he had to go and had him sit on the potty every 60-90 minutes. the third day I relaxed a little bit but still consistently asked him if he had to go. I also gave him a lot of water on those 3 days :)
He was mostly potty trained after those 3 days with occasional accidents here and there and he was totally out of pull ups within 3 months.

When my kids were little we had a “Surprise” bucket (plastic bucket left over from Halloween). They could choose something from the bucket as a reward when they were good (or when they used the potty) It had little trinkets, stickers, bite size candies etc…it worked like a charm for potty training.

This maybe a stupid question, but how did you measure your cadence? Is it a feature on your watch?

I’m coming back from a femoral neck stress fx. For part of my recovery, once I was approved to return to running, my doctor had me do a gait analysis. I came in at a 178 cadence, but she noticed over striding. My doctor wants me to eventually increase to a 186, and I’ve just been using a metronome app. I hate running with headphones though and would love to just use a watch or pedometer.

Thanks!!!