Yoga!

Just got back from yoga and a meeting. I rode my bike there and back and getting to Cambridge from Chelsea on a bike is a little hairy, especially at night but it's a good workout - 12 miles RT - and helps justify the sweets I eat :D

I started yoga recently at Karma Yoga Studio. I really love it and have a lot of respect for the women (it's mostly women which is a nice fringe benefit!) because of their strength and flexibility. A long time ago, well a few years anyway, I read about older people who are now in better shape today than they were at say at 20 because of running or whatever. Since then I've aspired to be like that and I think yoga is a great way to get there.

Today's class was Vinyasa which I liked and I tried Anusara a few days ago which I didn't - not so much the style as much as the teacher. I'm very much at the beginner level and literally everyone else are at much higher levels and none of them are Indian!

Anyway, here's another biking photo of Gerard and I from a month or two ago

Two bikers!

Had a great weekend with Gerard. On Sat we parked near Longfellow Bridge on Memorial Drive in Cambridge and rode in to Harvard Square for my regular Sat morn meeting (I took Gerard with me from the time he was 3 months old till he was a year and a half and so a lot of people know him. Now I just take him occasionally).

From there we rode to a kids fair on Marlborough St in the Back Bay. We were supposed to meet up with other kids/single parents from a group I joined on meetup.com No one else showed up and the fair was really geared for smaller kids but we had a good time eating lunch and listening to the band. Gerard got to get into a police car and use the siren which he loved of course (he also had a long chat with the officer that I wish I'd overheard!).

Then we rode through the North End to Charlestown under the Zakim Bridge to look at the locks that control the Charles River - we had to walk across one of the locks and Gerard didnt like it - he was afraid that it would open up and we'd fall in. Didnt help that his bike horn accidentally fell into the river! But he enjoyed playing with these "sound tubes" that had small rubber hammers that was similar to a huge xylophone. We hung out there for some time and then rode back to the car for a total of about 12 miles! Which is our longest ride so far. You can check out the route over here and pics from a ride last week over here (didnt take any of the two of us on Saturday but took other pics coming soon)

He didnt seem tired from the ride but he did get knocked out as soon as I put him to bed (after bath and stories as usual). And yesterday we did the walk for Autism, I think it was a 2 mile walk, with Evelyn, Nancy and Blair. He was disappointed that it wasnt a race. I had to sell it to him and told him it was a race...but he did have a good time. And it was important for him and me that we do something like this together because I would tell him about the races that I started doing this year and now it's something he can relate to.

Where do we go from here?

Now that all of the children are grown up....? Nice song, don't remember the band (CSN?), but it describes where I am right now.

I've been thinking of a career change for some time now and still havent figured out what I want to do but in the meantime I thought it would be nice to have a place to share what's happening in my world. I've always wanted to have a family website but this will do for now.