(or How I Multitasked the Pounds Away)
Two years ago, my daughter was in the especially useless school situation known as Morning Pre-K. In NYC, you can have the sweet, sweet experience of public pre-k for your kid with the big catch that it will be an incredible waste of your time as it will last only from 8:40am to 11am. That is just long enough to get a coffee, feel sorry for yourself and then turn around and get your kid.
However, if you have no shame and you are an extreme multi-tasker you can replicate my trick to maximize your time and MINIMIZE YOUR WAISTLINE (pretty slick, right?).
You know that invisible dog leash gag? Well, I employed a version of it with my jogging stroller. This is where a lack of shame comes into play: a lot of people just feel plain stupid running along with an empty jogging stroller. But not me!
My trick was to jog my empty stroller over to my daughter’s pre-k to pick her up and then jog back with my full stroller. I gotta go pick her up and I gotta go back too, right? That's just one half stupid-looking, shame-filled workout and one half awesome-looking bad-ass multi-tasking dad workout. Zero one way, hero the other.
So if you can deal with the stares on the way there, you are in for a nice workout. Plus, you get to show up at school looking fine in your workout gear. Pretty sweet!
[photo stolen from my pal Charlie Todd's wonderful Improv Everywhere]