A friend recently turned me on to Yoga Journal, an online source for all things yoga-related. I started practicing yoga when I was pregnant with Jude, but due to a lack of funds, stopped attending class when he was about a year old (give or take a few months). Since then, I’ve been hard pressed to shell out the money to attend a class at a studio or to attempt a 50-minute workout I found online. Yoga Journal has a 20-minute video that you can stream, and I’ve been doing that consistently for about six days now. The bad news is that I’m not sure how often, if ever, they post a new sequence. While I really like the instructor and the routine that’s available for streaming now, I can imagine getting pretty bored with it in a another week or two. I would like to be able to design my own practice sequence, but I just don’t feel like I’ve got the knowledge to do so. Or, better yet, I’d love it if Robyn Adler would come to my house so that I could have a one-on-one session with her.

On top of my daily yoga practice, I’ve been taking daily bike rides with Jude for the better part of the past four or five days. Our bike trailer arrived late last week, and both he and I have been having a blast riding around the neighborhood. I don’t know how long it will be until I feel up to making the trek south to Lincoln Park to visit Jude’s girlfriend, but I’m hoping to get in shape sooner rather than later. For as much as I don’t notice the trailer as I ride (that is, it doesn’t affect my balance at all), MAN, it is a lot of work to pull that thing. This morning, Josh, Jude, and I rode south to the beginning of the lake trail and for about a mile further south once we got there. Josh put the trailer on his bike, and I was, amazingly, able to keep up with him. The past few times we’ve gone riding as a family, I’ve biked at an alarmingly slow speed. I chalked it up to not having ridden a bike since 2005, but apparently, pulling an extra forty pounds really puts a cramp in your biking style. Even Josh, who bikes fourteen miles round trip a day (and at quite the clip, let me tell you), could really tell the difference between having and not having the trailer attached…

…So, GO ME! I’m not quite as lame as I thought I was.