I went for a run...

So I finally plucked up the courage to go for my first run since my early pregnancy. I put in some headphones, laced up my old Brooks runners, left the dog behind and went for a run along Skeleton Creek. I walked for 800m to warm up and clear my head and then set off at a slow plod, somewhere between 6:30-7:00 min kms. My goal was to nail a single solid kilometre non-stop. When I got to the km mark, I was feeling pretty good so I thought I'd stretch it out to 2km, but even then I felt OK so continued on for a third km but by this time I was plodding along at about 8:30 min kms. But that's OK. I was happy with that.

I thought my lungs would have been the first casualty on the run but instead it was my legs. Oh my, they felt really heavy the whole way. And even better news is, no, er, leakage! Always a fear a woman holds after childbirth...

Two days later, it was REALLY hot so instead of running in the hot sun, I went to the gym and tried the treadmill. What a disaster! I couldn't even run 500m on the bloody thing :(  That shattered my confidence. Then I got a chest cold and was coughing up phlegm (gross!) so I didn't run again :(

Now I feel like my confidence is shattered and that's holding me back. I think I'll try the C2K program and jump in around week 4 or 5 to help regain my confidence. I can manage that - three times this coming week. Stay tuned!

2013 update

As this blog has largely been an exercise related blog, nothing got posted this year because I found out on New Year's Eve 2012 that I was 4 weeks pregnant. Finally!  I continued to exercise until June when my back and right hip packed it in. I kept riding my bike until early May and while I stopped the intense cardio classes from January at the gym, I still did yoga and light weights until I could hardly bear weight on my leg.

My first walk after giving birth was to the town centre and back, about 5 days after Alex was born.  I was sooo slow and my pubic bone hurt, like I'd been kicked in between the legs. I needed a nap after my almost-2km walk!  How my fitness had slipped considering I walked the 100km Great Ocean Walk the month before becoming pregnant.

My boy is now11.5 weeks old and I've been going to the gym for strength and conditioning "mums and bubs" classes twice a week and walking 2 or 3kms (easily) most days. I take my dog PB and she is more unfit than me.

I'll start jogging once Alex is three months, so about two weeks to go.  Yay! My first goal race is the local Rotary Wyndham fun run on March 2nd with my buddy Caz and maybe my sister Al. The big question is will it be the 5km or the 10km?

When Alex can hold his head up on his own (he's almost there) we'll do some short hikes. I want our love of the outdoors to be passed on to him from an early age. First Stop will be the You Yangs.