I will accept your friend request, but I haven't got anything exciting on my page! I'm not techy,, so I haven't figured out how or taken the time to get pics, goals, etc loaded. Maybe some day....

That's great that you live so close to the Y! But I know it's hard to work with schedules, and especially getting in laps around swim lessons and free swims... I am hoping to take my kids out for a bike ride in a bit. We are on Spring Break this week.

Another option for you might be stairs at work, if you have them.

For YouTube, I like ReFitRev. They have a mix of Christian and main-stream music and their choreography is pretty easy to get. They are also modestly dressed...good for when your kids are around. GRDancefitness is mostly good when my kids (boys) are around, too, but the choreo is a little harder to get. When my boys are NOT in the house, I like Sensazaocrew (suggestive clothing and most dances/lyrics to boys, maybe not the best for young girls to see, depending on how you feel about that) and DawnLaurenFitness (although this one isn't bad for my boys from the clothing standpoint). The last two are my favorite, but I do have to do that when everyone is gone...it lets me get my "club" dancing in (I have never been a bar/club person) I like mainly hip-hop style as opposed to mainly salsa style Zumba. There are others you will run across as suggestions, but I usually like just a song or two of theirs. You can search for "playlist" and I've found complete workouts that just cycle right on through. Or you can create your own for the 20 or 30 minutes that you have... Playlists don't work on my iPad, though, so I wonder if they will on the AppleTV? I have to select and hit play for each song. If you are not familiar with YouTube (I wasn't until I started looking for Zumba dances), just put those names in the search box and their songs/dances will come up.

If you are already running three times a week, and you add in 20-30 minutes of stairs once a week, YouTube dancing once or twice with your daughter, 30 minutes of swimming once or twice, and a bike ride with the kids when the weather is nice...next thing you know, you are going exercise crazy and the workouts become longer. The hardest part is finding the time to get the 20-30 minutes in, then it gets easier (for me) to extend the time. When I approached it with a rigid time schedule (due to classes at the gym), and thinking everything had to be an hour...it just didn't happen.

And chasing after those two babies, Varda!

Oh...so you really WERE couch to 5K???

Do you tend to hit the same areas again and again? If you do, it's worth learning the trails in each area. There's usually a couple around that are well-used.

And I do like the NHS podcasts for the treadmill. http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/c25k/Pages/running-podcast.aspx

Yes. I do go to the same areas. I tried mapmyrun to see what routes others run in that area. I ended up asking the concierge and found a great neighborhood along an estuary to run in. Beautiful scenery and birds... I had my best run yet. I need to find new and interesting places to run in my home town too, because the novelty of a new route made such a difference.

Hi, Kira! It's good to have you join us. I started running in January, and I'm a lifelong swimmer. I swim at the competitive level, but I haven't competed as an adult. My coaches are working on me, though. I'm 42 and I have three kids - 15, 12, 9.

I've sent you a friend request. I'm just starting to figure that part of the site out.

Beth, I've had those same nightmares when I went to Europe. People told me they don't have plus sized clothing there. I did find some, but it wasn't easy. I imagine it's really true in Asia, though! And you travel a lot, which increases your chances. That would be terrible. Here's to fitting into regular sized clothing!! Yay!!