Adventures with Janie.

I usually don't bother riding to work- for my 3/4 mi commute it's really just faster to walk. Today I had a list of things to get done during lunch hour, though, so I broke out Janie. She looks like this. It's been a few months since I commuted on a bike, and it was sort of funny. Luckily the chain lock still fit below my belly but it sure felt silly. I'm wearing a too-cute polka dot outfit that just happens to match my bike which definitely contributed to the goofy feeling. As did the fact that I had to wear my race shoes to commute-- note to self, get normal pedals for this bike.

Anyway, the goofiness has just sort of exploded lately. With the growth of the thing living on my frontside, sleeping has become a bit of an unattainable feat, so I finally broke down and succumbed to... the pregnancy pillow. You see, it's hard to find a comfy sleep position when you're, well, big. Enter the free market economy, which will "help" us with this problem by selling countless types of pillow with stupid names-- the snoogle, boppy, preggle, you name it. It comes in a hook-shape, a u-shape, a curly-q, a foldable c-shape. Basically they all do what a full-body pillow would do, but they come with a cute pastel colored cover and a highly researched cutsey name. I fell victim. Tuesday, Amazon delivered this gem and I have to admit, I'm sort of enamored with it. That is, all but its name. I slept pretty well last night, but I can't stop thinking to myself, this is sad. I guess the big question now is whether we'll be lugging the thing with us to the Subaru Cup this weekend-- wherein I am volunteering, and probably not bringing a bike.

Managed another 4 mi run this morning, at what I'm guessing is somewhere between a 12:00 and 20:00 pace. I don't know, and I don't care. There was an unusually large crowd of runners out this morning, leading me to wonder if they all missed their workouts last night due to the storm or if it's the beginning of Chicago Marathon training season. Either way, they all ran faster than me. In other workout news, my sheer boredom with doing the same squattastic prenatal strength workout dvd led me to purchase another, different one. The new one is led by a former Cirque du Soleil acrobat. Man o man, if you ever want to feel like you haven't worked out your arms since the Grunge era, try doing a workout led by an acrobat. Should have known better.