8/12

SRD yesterday; normal yoga. Crazy busy day with tons of meetings for kids--I spent a solid hour driving to and from the middle school 3 times and had another 2 meetings at the elementary school.

Today--easy 6 with FF last mile--felt very easy today which was a nice change. Rewatched the trials for the last couple of miles and it's amazing how easy it was to speed up with that playing on my screen! :-) My mom was visiting so I'm glad I managed to fit this in.

8/10

6 easy with FF last mile +.3 walking to cool down. First couple of miles were really hard--my legs were just dead and I was super nauseated. Stopped at 2 and stretched out my calves; seemed to help a lot. Now off to our local waterpark for the evening--promised my kids I would take them before school started.

8/9; 33 weeks

6 easy today + mile walking to cool down. Had a lot of pain yesterday in my hip flexors after no cooldown or stretching thanks to the drama-filled end to my run, so really focused on that today. So dang tired these days thanks to the baby making it impossible to sleep more than a couple of hours...7 weeks to go.

8/5

6 today--easy for the first couple of miles and then picked up the pace progressively to finish at HMP. Wasn't planning to run a harder one today but had to stop quite a few times in the first 3 miles for kids and was frustrated enough that I just wanted to run faster and get it over and done.

4 easy yesterday and then pool. My legs were so dead--wore my compression socks the rest of the day which helped a lot.
Now driving to MI to meet up with friends for the weekend at the lake, so this is it for me running-wise this week--first time I've run 5 consecutively in quite awhile!

30 for the week/month.

8/3

6 at 10:28/mile (aerobic pace with 14 min. total of HMP intervals). Nice to actually feel like I'm getting a workout again; we'll see how the leg feels later. Off to the pool for some XT.

8/2; 32 weeks

6 easy earlier today--another one where I wanted to go longer but didn't have the time! Literally had 8 minutes post-run to take a shower (icy cold!) and get out the door in time.

Had pretty regular contractions every mile or so, which is always fun. (Not.) But thanks to my previous pregnancies, I know that there is absolutely nothing I can do to start labor on my own short of a Pitocin drip, so...contractions were less noticeable after the first mile when I adjusted the belt position.

Eight weeks to go!

8/1

Had some major issues with pain at the stress fx site after the race Wednesday--probably all of the leaping over logs and running up concrete stairs. Took normal SRD Thursday (yoga and swimming), then Friday pretty much rested on the couch as much as possible--felt AWFUL. Dizzy and tons of contractions. Saturday mowed the lawn, did yardwork, but no running--18.2 for the week and 114.2 for the month. Normal SRD Sunday.

8 easy today; felt pretty good. Wanted to push the pace but didn't, wanted to get in another couple of miles but ran out of time. No leg pain!