Sunday Update: Reading, Sports, Sleep, Media

The experience of taking four young kids to the bike park
is the exact opposite of how casual I look here.

Hello! Happy Mothering Sunday for UK people! If you are a mothering person this is a day where you get to....? Do mother stuff.  In a sick and evil twist it's also the time change day.  Obviously time change people must hate mothers which is why they put the clocks change on mothers day. 

As a kid I used to hate this time change because I "lost" an hour of sleep.  However as a parent this is a great time change because this morning I woke up and there was a 6 on the clock!  Of course it was 6:15, which. means yesterday's 5:15, so not really any great feat.  Why can't we all just agree to leave the clocks the same time and just get up earlier in the summer? Anyways, this is a completely different rant than I was intending.

This week was a lot.  Ezra was home ill.  Andy and I did a lot of childcare-work-swapping. I didn't feel great and thought I was getting ill. Maybe I am ill? My diet has been 70% bread, 20% cheese, and 10% cake and chocolate.  It's not ideal.

But, it's a new week! And a new month. 

Reading

In exciting news, I got a libby copy of How To End A Love Story and of course I am enjoying it.  It has been a hot minute since I read some chick lit so it's nice to have my familiar narratives back.

I'm still reading Meditations for Mortals as well.  Oliver Burkeman is smart and I have to think about his books and I have been to tired to think, so it's going slowly.

Sports

On Monday I did my 100th Peloton ride! I was so excited that San was able to ride with me.  It felt really fun to have my Peloton friends with me - my colleague joined as well (we were both on lunch break) and  my local sports buddy, and I got loads of high fives.  

• Monday
• 30 Minute Intervals and Arms with Hannah Frankson
  
  
• Tuesday
• 1 hour gym with gym buddy (upper)
  
  
• Friday
• 30 Minute HIIT and Hills with Cody Rigsby
• 10 Minute focus flow with Denis Morton
  
  
• Sunday
• 30 Minute UK Mothers Day ride with Leanne Hainsby-Alldis
• 10 Minute climb ride with Denis Morton
• 5 Minute cool down ride with Denis Morton
• 10 Minute core Strength with Adrian Williams
• 10 Minute focus flow: floor poses with Denis Morton

When I do live rides on Peloton I always filter to the twin moms and give out high fives because twin momming is a lot.  I was rather sad to see that there were no twin moms or momof4 on the Mothering Sunday ride today:

This only shows what people tag themselves, but of the 400 people in the live ride, this seemed to have a smaller percentage of self-tagged moms than other rides I've done.  

Overall, not the best week for sports.  I'm hoping this week I can do more strength training.  I didn't want to ride on Friday or Sunday, but I thought to myself "not because I want to, because I can" and then after I rode I felt much better.

Sleep
The good news is, when the going gets tough, the tough... fall asleep.  Because I averaged 7.5 hours of sleep this week, including the time change.  I guess in some future world it would be great if I could eat a vegetable or meditate or walk outside when life gets hard, but at least I can still go to bed early when life gets hard.

Media

So I have been really really into Taylor Swift recently, which is sometimes a sign of stress and turmoil (last time I was so into T Swift was November, which was the worst month in a long time) but also maybe her music is just really really good?  I am especially into the midnights album.  So so many great lines! So many great songs.  Blarg I just love the whole album.

There was a good Before Breakfast Podcast called "you'll regret it, and that's OK". I feel like almost every decision we make right now turns out to be the un-ideal one, but is also the correct decision based on the information we had at the time.  I'll regret it, and that's OK.

Do you like the Spring Forward time change? Do you celebrate Mothering Sunday or Mothers Day? Do you sleep more when life is hard?