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| My two kids doing something I love - SLEEP! |
Knocking on the door of 40 years old, having spent the last year with no athletic activity that I'd love to blame on the radial nerve problem in my right arm vs. my own apathy towards my body - this training program has shed light on something I thought I had under control.
When you exercise more - what do you need more? What does YOUR BODY crave?
For some, it's more nutrition.
Their body needs to eat more and/or better. Someone I know eats almost DOUBLE what they normally eat when they are training for a race (my daughter Emma).
Their body needs more water. The more they workout, the more they need to replenish.
For me, it's SLEEP.
What? This from the woman who intends and is pretty successful at getting at LEAST 7 hours of sleep a day.
Yeah, every run this past week revealed to me the deep need to go back to my body's wiring and get that 8 or more hours of sleep a day.
Now it will be ANOTHER post to figure out how I do that with all my roles - wife, mom to two active kids, full-time marketer/part-time village official AND entrepreneur building a new company.
But I am so glad that my relationship with my body is so much closer that I can immediately sense something I might have missed in the past. As recent past as last year.
You see the issue with my radial nerve in my right arm has brought me in closer relationship with my body. Therapy, surgery, therapy again and one year later with little improvement has tuned me in to this miracle I walk around in everyday. And IT has spoken.
So don't be surprise if you "see" or "hear" me dozing more like the two cute kids in the photo above.
Sleep is what this body needs more of...and because I love my body and value our relationship. I'm obliging.
Do you know what your body is asking of you?
Are you in tune with your "miracle"?
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