You come home from a long day at the office and haven't even gotten your run in yet, and the runts not only want to tell you about their day (which you could care less about), but they want a bedtime story as well.
- Double D
You come home from a long day at the office and haven't even gotten your run in yet, and the runts not only want to tell you about their day (which you could care less about), but they want a bedtime story as well.
- Double D
Just ground them if they interfere with your training. Soon they'll learn that they're #2.
Another solution: Get a membership to a health club and drive straight there after work, change, head out for your run from there.
Then you can lift, use the whirlpool, and grab a beer.
By the time you get home they should already be fast asleep.
How about you sacrifice your competitive career, stay home and virtually raise the kids on your own because you married an elite athlete. Let her go out and train and with any kind of luck she runs off with one of the dumb f***s she's been training with! Then she files for divorce and uses the excuse that you didn't support her goals as a potential Olympian....judge laughs her and her boyfriend out of court, awards you the kids. Boyfriend and ex see their elite status spiral downward until they can't win their age divisions at the local Fun Runs!
Ahh, it's not really revenge, but it is getting sweet!!
I had a cool dad he brought me to run with him. Hated it at the time. But was cool when dominated at sports from a young age thanks dad. Now he even finances my elite career. Dad send more money please.
My kid likes to run, because his mom and dad both like to run. He hasn't gotten out much this winter because of the weather and hockey. I took him out for 2 or 3 miles the weekend before last. I snuck a peak into his running journal after the run (we got him one for Christmas to encourage his budding love for the sport). He wrote, "wet, deep puddle. really hilly, but nice view and nice temperature. I felt tired." Then in big block letters: "FUN," followed by a footnote in tiny letters "I went with dad."
I was high as a kite all day after I read that. I never thought I wanted kids (when I was much younger, and therefore much more foolish and less wise), and I admit parenting can be pretty trying at times, but kids are the meaning of life.
Lock the little savages in the closet. That will teach them to keep their mouths shut and speak when they are spoken to and serves as a great babysitter so you can get your run in.
my daughter is 7 and sometimes on my off days we go to the park and do a mile together. It's awesome. She's got some wheels.
Been There wrote:
... with any kind of luck she runs off with one of the dumb f***s she's been training with!
Not only that, but me and a couple of other guys in the training group were banging the crap out of her as well - she wasn't so great. You're much better off with out her.
Agreed. By the way, have the blisters cleared up yet?
They flare up from time to time when I'm over training, but the Acyclovir is helping. I'm just glad I convinced her that I got it from her instead of the other way round.
Peeeeeeeter...
Should you be reading your child's journal?!!
Monty
Nope. Guilty as charged. Won't do it again.
Actually I knew you were reading it, daddy. I just thought if I made you feel better about yourself you wouldn't need to go to all those icky sites on the internet with the pictures of the girls and the horses and stuff.
Honestly? The run sucked, I wanted to watch nickleodeon.
Thats so cool. I can imagine that must have been great! I take my little one out on off days (and if the weather is not too bad) as well in the stroller for now but hope that she enjoys the sport as much as I do someday.
so that's why her elite career went haywire spending all that time and enery with you guys when she should have been out running. Oh well. Dad please send more money, pretty please. Oh yeah on another note my dad used the Pavalov dog trick on me. First few runs he always brought me to a minimart in the middle of the park. So everytime he said run, I thought ice cream and started drooling. Stimulas response. My psych instructor would have been proud:> Kids are so easy to condition.
You dudes are hilarious. All of that is pretty much why I waited so long to get married and have kids. I made sure that I had no desire whatsoever to compete any more. I've had my day, soon it will be their day and I won't have to live vicariously through them so that they hate running. Being a good dad is way more satisfying than the self indulgant existance I used to live.
Monty wrote:
Peeeeeeeter...
Should you be reading your child's journal?!!
Monty
Yea, I was there with Pete that night. We was eh just trying to see if there were and spelling and grammar mistakes. You know kids that age can't let them get into bad habits. Ya that it.
this post is great.