Running Pregnant

Well I am 15 weeks pregnant now! I'm still enjoying good workouts, although I haven't been able to go as hard as I used to. I really scaled back during first trimester and only did hard workouts on days I felt great. But now I am back to feeling fairly normal, although still if I do a hard workout I will need the next day off. So far I don't feel any difference (besides fatigue) but I figure I have a month or so window to be somewhat normal until I begin to get... impaired :)

I ran 10 miles Wednesday, it felt awesome. I just can't explain the feeling of accomplishment that comes with a long endurance run. It gets addicting and you just want that number to go higher each time. The longest I've run was about 17 miles once, and several 13+ mile runs. But being pregnant I am happy with 10 as my upper limit, unless I do a slow half-marathon (it would be cool, but there are no options right now unless some friends organize our own). Besides, I have a 2-hour childcare limit at my gym and I was 5 minutes late! (my actual run was 1 hr 48 mins, but I take a lot of bathroom/stretching breaks!)

Then today was a 10K race. Here are some photos from that. My time was 69 minutes, about 10 minutes slower than I ran it pre-pregnancy. After the race, they did a 1-mile fun run which Rychen P. joined me for. The winners are based on accuracy of predictions, and the runners can't wear watches. So it was actually pretty fun to predict your pace and adjust it for certain paranoias... I ended up 20 seconds off my prediction and got 2 place. Rychen had to run fast to try to keep up with me (and couldn't anyway) and ended up running a 12-minute mile which is awesome for him, his other times have been closer to 14 minutes.

I am headed to Las Vegas for a few weeks and it's my goal to go to the YMCA 4 times a week to workout. I have to stay in shape for the church triathlon next month. Looking forward to it!

1-mile fun run