It only took 2.5 years, but we finally did it!

Today is a momentous day in the Jerdan household.

After 2.5 years of brainstorming, researching, and nigh-near-nagging (on Sara's part of course), we have finally discovered:

A way to work out together!!!

We both our wholeheartedly commited to being and remaining healthy, however we had these road blocks firming in place:


- Our very different leg lengths. Completely rules out jogging together without a great deal of frustrating on either person's side.

- Our exercising preference. We both have the excersize we like to do. I like Jazzercise, he absolutely wouldn't. He likes socceer, I would look like an idiot trying to play. This is definitely part of our preferences, and isn't going to change any time soon. (link goes to "The 8 Colors of Fitness, which I recommend to all the MBTI geeks out there)

- Our available facilities. We both like to swim, however there is never a pool nearby, and now with the baby we can't do that at the same time.

- Our baby. We were hoping to start biking together soon, however it isn't recommended you bike with a baby, even on a trailer, until at least a year old. Bummer. Also, we only have one bike so it would take a lot of new purchasing of things to get this habit going, so it looked like there were a lot of things that would make this very hard.


However in a moment of inspiration, I (Sara) remembered the roller blades I had bought on sale on a whim last year. Then I thought I could actually keep up with Jon while he jogs at a normal pace! Now that the weather is nicer, we thought we'd try it with our son in a regular stroller.

And it worked! Jon was able to keep up a good pace while I tried not to careen into anything too fast. It took me a little while to get used to roller blading. I used to roller blade a lot, however as I was putting on the blades I realized that this was at least 15 years ago now and my body is well, quite different :) We had a few close calls with me going down hills, however I hope after watching a few YouTube videos on how to rollerblade I'll get this all resolved. Over all it was very enjoyable - especially when I had enough momentum to basically just stand next to Jon while he jogged :)

Now all we need to do is make sure we get a good jogging stroller (right now it is quite bumpy for T) and maybe one day he'll actually enjoy the right. Now right he is very underwhelmed by it all, but hopefully he'll at least enjoy the speed?

So, I'm very excited. A good way to start out this near year.