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You're probably wondering, after that much rest, do I feel all better?
While I don't feel completely healed, I do feel a whole lot better. I went for a 2 mile walk yesterday and felt ok after, so I decided to try a short run today. My husband suggested that I try just one mile at first, so we compromised on just three miles (marriage is all about compromise, especially when one half of the pair is insane).
The funniest part of our conversation was when he said "You should go slowly, like a ten minute pace." I just cracked up and he looked confused and I had to explain that a 10 min/mile pace sure doesn't feel slow to me nowadays. At almost 34 weeks of pregnancy, I pretty much feel like this when I run now:
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I was able to run 3.1 miles with the jogging stroller (and dog of course) without any increase in rib pain, which is very exciting! I can't say the run felt awesome because running at this stage of pregnancy isn't full of comforts, but I still finished up feeling like I wanted to run further.
I was recently asked why I don't just bag the running and start again after the baby is born, and I don't really have a good answer beyond "I don't wanna". It's good for my sanity, which is key when I spend the vast majority of my day with a crazy 2 year old and even though it's uncomfortable, it's still running. It's like pizza: I'll still eat even bad pizza because it's PIZZA. Unless it's on a gluten free crust. You can keep that shit to yourself.
My game plan for running is to be conservative about my mileage and maybe try to not run so many days in a row. I had been hitting 30-35 miles a week before I took the hiatus, so I'm thinking 20ish miles a week would be more reasonable at this stage of pregnancy. If at any point I feel the rib pain getting bad again, I'm going to back off because life is so much better without pain when inhaling.
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What's the longest break you've ever taken from all exercise?
Where do you get your gifs? That Barney one is awesome.
ReplyDeleteThe longest break from all exercise? Hmm...two days maybe. People who don't like working out are a mystery to me.
Brian sent me that NPH one!
DeleteI've taken 6 months off before. It was around the time when I was buying my house, so I didn't feel like doing anything. And it was a good excuse to rest my body for a while from climbing.
ReplyDeleteAnd you're welcome, for giving you funny animated gifs to use on your blog.
Fatty.
Deleteglad to hear you are stubborn enough to keep at it!! i switched to biking when i was about 5 months pregnant but made it a point to ride 15 miles on my due date.
ReplyDeleteThis has been the longest stretch without running...I'm going on 1 year, 3 months and you know what? I feel like a bag of crap!
ReplyDeleteI have eventful pregnancies which are not conducive to running or even standing up so I couldn't exercise throughout my last pregnancy. I read your post about running with both kids in the jogging stroller and I have to say, I'm going to be totally impressed with you if you accomplish that! I cannot find any time to myself these days with my 2 kiddos. Exercise or even going to the washroom by myself just isn't happening. I know partly it's because I'm not making it a priority. I need to though because I find myself going a little cuckoo-nutso these days...
I'm not sure running with two kids will be relaxing, but at least I'll feel more relaxed when I'm done. I hope :)
DeleteWhen you're trying to decide which one to get rid of, pick whichever one is more troublesome during the runs.
DeleteFrom exercise entirely? Probably the other week when I went 5 days with nada. However, the past 6 weeks have been pretty lazy in general. Sigh. So glad that's done with!
ReplyDeleteUnless you count my slothful adolescence, the longest I've gone without *was* my pregnancy and the two months after though I did start walking pretty quickly after. I don't know when I started to run, but I did do a 5K when my kids were eight months old. It was my first race in a year and a half and I was s-l-o-w. I never want to go that long without it again.
ReplyDeleteI remember trying to walk right after I had Faith and not even making it half a mile on the first try. It took a few weeks to make it 2 miles!
DeleteI'm so grateful that the picture of the big man running is not animated. Even worse would be animated in super-slow-mo. Thank you for that.
ReplyDeleteThat's only because I couldn't find a gif version :P
DeleteI took a year off from exercise before because I hurt my knee. It hurt to get in and out of the car so I couldn't do anything cardio wise with it. After about 3 months, my knee felt better but then I took up drinking which was a lot more fun than running.
ReplyDeleteI could even imagine doing that now. The not exercising part. Ok, or the not drinking part.
From *all* exercise?
ReplyDeleteUmmmmm, I don't know. Three weeks? India for two weeks plus being sick for the week after?
oh man, I totally win this - at least four years.
ReplyDeleteAlso, agreed; no such thing as bad pizza. (except the gluten free shit)
Good to hear that you're healing well! I cannot believe how tall Faith is. The B's feet don't reach the end of the stroller yet. I'm envious. I always wish I was taller. I think the longest I went without exercising was the 3 months after I had the B. I couldn't stand up straight until then. Also, my posting about Faith's Halloween costume didn't make it onto the blog for some reason. But I wanted to say that is adorable and that she sounds so cute! I just want to hug her!
ReplyDeleteI just took almost three months off running while I've been in Peru. I'm hoping it has given my hip time to heal so I can start running when I get home in two weeks!
ReplyDeleteI took a week off last month and I'm pretty sure that's the longest I've ever gone. It was miserable, but mostly because I was in pain the whole time.
ReplyDeleteGluten free pizza is foul, as is most other GF foods.
Zpizza makes a pretty decent GF pizza crust. But it's not real pizza, for sure. Most other GF imitators are foul. I just avoid them.
DeleteI love your comment about the pizza thing. And referencing Barney Stinson made me just fall in love with you. How do you find these stuff?
ReplyDeleteAll exercise? Probably a week, maybe 2 max.
ReplyDeleteSince adding regular exercise into my weight loss efforts, I'm now pretty compulsive about it and fear that if I take any prolonged time off that 1) I will immediately balloon up to my old weight and 2) I will immediately revert back to lazy ass tendencies of never, ever working out again. So, gotta keep plugging.
Did you and Kari coordinate again? You both went with the "I'm more hardcore than you, you lazy fatty" theme. I am pretty impressed with your commitment to running though. The longest I went without exercise was 8 days when I had bronchitis this past Christmas. Since I couldn't even watch TV because I couldn't hear it over my constant, disgusting hacking couch, I figured running was out. It was awful.
ReplyDeleteWhat about after your most favorite 50miler ever? Less than a week off??
DeleteThe first 21 years of my life were pretty much exercise-free. At this point in my life, I think I'd probably be going crazy just like you are if I needed to stay away from it. Sounds like the rest helped though!
ReplyDeleteI feel just like that photo too lately but I don't have an impending baby to blame it on. I just need to do a few (thousand) situps.
ReplyDeleteBreak from exercise??? Probably only after the birth of each child. I'm sure I took time off then. Geeez, for not taking time off I should look a whole lot better than I do.
Your readers are crazy. Are we talking about the plain refusal to work out, including an intentional walk? or just not a regular fitness routine? Because I rarely have a routine. sometimes I just find myself wanting to go for a random run and weeks go by without me doing it again.
ReplyDeleteI didn't exercise once during this pregnancy. But I wore work out clothes a lot. they're stretchy. (wait, I can't say "this pregnancy" anymore!)
I love NPH. That just made this post.
ReplyDeleteSo glad you are feeling better! I usually take a full week off following a big race. I've taken some time off for vacations and injuries, but usually no more than a week.
Glad you are feeling better:)
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're back running! And proud of you for taking 10 days off - I know that's easier said then done.
ReplyDeleteExercise is bad for you. Don't you know anything? It will make your kid fall out of the stroller. Good thing you're getting a backup kid.
ReplyDeleteYou are gonna take your 6 weeks post-partum, right? I took 8.5 months off for Charlotte and I actually didn't mind it so much once I realized I could sleep in and was to nauseated to want to move. Oh, unless you count the 4 or 5 years between getting mono in college and realizing I was sick of being a lazy fatass. Then it was 4 or 5 years.
ReplyDeleteI question whether or not you'll even be able to take the full 6 weeks off after delivery. I bet you'll be secretly hitting the treadmill the day you get home from the hospital :). I've had many breaks from running in my life. I love exercise and being in routine, but there are times I just need a break from it. Right now, it's my body that is forcing me to take a break when I don't want to.
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