{"id":1386,"date":"2009-02-17T13:58:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T18:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2009-11-14T09:01:57","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T14:01:57","slug":"creative-training-for-body-and-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/creative-training-for-body-and-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative training for body and soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">training<\/span> supposed to be training for the BP MS 150, a two-day, 180-mile bicycle ride from Houston to Austin that takes place in April.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/19\/what-a-rush-my-first-ms-150-experience\/\">Last year<\/a> was my first attempt and it was an absolutely amazing experience. I trained like the dickens for it, in hopes of having a successful ride. And I did. Even with the very strong headwind.<\/p>\n<p>Well, my training this year has been a little lackluster. But I am working on it.<\/p>\n<p>For the past few weeks my Tuesday riding buddy has been unable to ride with me (the flu is plaguing her house!) so I&#8217;ve tried to come up with a few alternate solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Today I set my laptop on the bar counter and set up my stationery trainer in front of it and watched the sermon I missed on Sunday while I cycled for 45 minutes. It was a great sermon and a great workout! After that I did a few dips off the fireplace&#8217;s hearth and then did a few <a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/24\/just-say-no-to-muffin-top\/\">ab exercises<\/a>. Although I wasn&#8217;t on the road, at least I still got a pretty good workout in&#8230; And my soul got a good workout, too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking of downloading an audio Bible and cycling to that sometimes, too. Any thoughts or suggestions on which to download? A local radio station is promoting Faith Comes by Hearing, so that&#8217;s what got me thinking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-207\" title=\"momflower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/momflower.jpg\" alt=\"momflower\" width=\"80\" height=\"40\" \/><\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m training supposed to be training for the BP MS 150, a two-day, 180-mile bicycle ride from Houston to Austin that takes place in April. Last year was my first attempt and it was an absolutely amazing experience. I trained like the dickens for it, in hopes of having a successful ride. And I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling-inspiration-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/2354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}