What do you do when it's too cold outside to take a run, yet your treadmill is on the blink? Radioactive Girl has the answer. Head down to your basement, deposit your children on a trampoline mattress and run as fast as you can in circles. Some may simply call that parenthood, that feeling of running in endless circles -- but I call it awesome. After all, she did a 7-minute mile! In her basement.
She says: "Running laps around the basement has an extra bonus. There are hurdles ...or remote control dinosaurs and a bunch of crap laying around, but they worked like hurdles. Although you feel a little like a mouse on a wheel running around and around, but going nowhere." Again, that sounds a lot like parenthood, but whatever.
I think it's genius. I don't have a basement, but the living room looks big enough if I got all Martha Stewart on it and rearranged crap -- although a coffee table hurdle might do me some good. I saw on the news last night that rain is headed our way next weekend. Who knows? I may follow Radioactive Girl's lead and dump the kid on a mattress while I make like a mouse and sprint happily around the room.
Unless, of course, there are better ways to burn off steam after a long day with the kids? (Get your mind out of the gutter, people -- I'm talking about exercise here ....)
