Training update: There is something fun about building fitness after pregnancy (or an injury). Is it because progress is so easy to see? Or my achiever mindset - where I wake up everyday, excited to get after it, improve on the day before, etc - and building from the bottom up ...
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Back to running, what else would you expect?
A few updates on C-section recovery, baby Jack, and my return to training! C-section recovery: This was much rougher than with either of the girls. First, my hip still really hurt from the last run I did while pregnant. Second, my incision became infected and a first round of ...
Welcome, Jack Peter!
We welcomed Jack Peter into the world on 6/4/2020! I had my 38 week OB appointment on Wednesday, 6/3. She checked my cervix and I wasn't dilated. That, plus ultrasounds showing baby measuring large, led us to schedule a C-section for 39 weeks. I had been up the previous night ...
Pregnancy Running Weeks 35-37
In some ways my due date is so near... in other ways, so far away! I'm happy that I have been able to run so late into this pregnancy. Continuing to work with Meghan, my coach, has helped as she has kept me consistent, even when I didn't really want to be. At the end of my ...
Pregnancy running: Weeks 29-34
5 more weeks down, now just 5 to go! Week 29: 39.2 miles, 3 days off. Long run of 11 miles which included some fartlek work with Claire, one of my high school athletes, and Nate pushing the stroller. From the beginning of the workout, I could only see Claire's back! They ...
2nd trimester training recap
Week 12 (63.2 miles, no days off): 10 miles with 2 mile threshold, then 8x200m fast: averaged 7:04 for the 2 miles. Two other workouts for the week were 8x15 sec hill sprints inside a 9 miler and a long run of 15 miles. Week 13 (58.8 miles, no days off): Nate left for a ...