10/12

More tapering--30-minute tempo run, although I didn't really bother with the tempo part; I just ran.

I started out at my normal warm-up pace of 8:40, but I felt nauseated after just two minutes.  So I slowed down and ran 3.5 miles at 9:02/mile.  I just have to keep telling myself to focus on mileage, not on pace, but it's hard to not want to push myself--it's a very different mentality that seems foreign to me after a year of trying to push myself to be tougher and faster.

On a sidenote, I've run 178.5 miles during this pregnancy so far.  Not too shabby. 

STATS:  3/5 miles; 9:02/mile

10/11

Four miles today--really struggling with fatigue.  This is always the hardest thing for me in early pregnancy, and while the running gives me endorphins, sometimes I'm just exhausted while I run.  It's not that my muscles are tired, or sore, it's just that I'm so tired that I spend all day in a haze of wishing I could lie down--not sleep, just lie down.  But at least I'm running.

STATS:  4 miles

10/8 & 10/9

Starting tapering!  Hurray!  We're almost there.

Ran three last night; I was pretty tired so I didn't really start to enjoy the run until the last half-mile, at which point I thought about continuing, but I still had a ton of grading to do and it was dark enough that it was hard to see.

Ran a lovely seven this morning.  I'm not timing myself anymore, on the advice of more experienced pregnant runners, so I don't really know what my pace was, but it took me 71 minutes to run 7 miles, stop for water 4 times, find someone to unlock the nature center bathroom and then use the bathroom.  So I think that's pretty good. 

In our original plan we were going to run 12 today, but I'm glad we decided to just do 7 (Neil actually only ran 6, haha I won!) because all our kids are so sick that we couldn't have left them with anyone else, we have the longest to-do list today that we've had in months, and I just plain don't want to run run 12 miles by myself.  So I'm really happy with today's run.  Now I have to go mow the lawn.  The end. 

STATS:  3 miles 10/8, 7 miles 10/9

10/6

It wasn't until yesterday evening that I even thought about the fact that I needed to run; it just wasn't on the radar.  I've been grading like crazy every second that the kids are sleeping, and I'm seriously rethinking how much I can actually handle teaching-wise with three kids.

I went to bed last night dreading my run this morning.  I woke up all night because I was so stressed about having to get up and worried about not getting enough sleep, so of course I didn't sleep well!  When I finally was running this morning, it was such a relief to have it over, even if it was only 3 miles.  Tapering, I love you.