…….it’s been a while!!
I can’t remember exactly when I last posted, but it’s been a while. It would have been during the latter weeks of my pregnancy. Well – I’m no longer pregnant!! I ‘ran’ up to 39 weeks and 3 days and Ned was born 4 days later – just 25 minutes before his due date. I’ll come back to that in another post!!
I felt pretty beaten up post delivery but managed to keep active with gentle exercise. We went for a gentle 3 mile walk with the pushchair just 24 hours later, and tried to keep this a daily routine (although we didn’t always manage 3 miles). I managed NOT to run for 10 days. In truth, I was too sore to even contemplate running! Just sitting still was painful!! On the evening of the 10th day I set out to walk 1.5 miles to get some milk from the next village. As I set off walking downhill I began to gather speed, and the urge to run got the better of me. I managed to run the whole 1.5 miles without stopping and, more importantly, without any body parts falling off or coming apart. To say I was pleased is an understatement – I was overjoyed! Ecstatic! I had looked forward to this day for more than 9 months and there were times I thought it would never come. I wouldn’t be without Ned for The World, but I felt that I’d found myself again now that I was able to run ‘properly’.
Now, I’m not one to let grass grow under my feet so I upped my mileage to 2 miles the day after. That went ok, and so my next run was 3 miles. I stuck at 3 – 4 miles for a week or so and ran 5 times per week. I also introduced a circuit class at 3 weeks. Ned is now 7 weeks old and I have increased my longest run to 8 miles. I don’t always wear a watch, but my shorter runs tend to be between 7.30 and 7.45 minute miles and my longer runs about 8 minute mile pace. I haven’t yet tried to introduce speed, but my circuit class involves a bit of sprinting.
So far – so good!! I have a bit of discomfort around the symphis pubis joint and I’m quite tired (mostly due to breast feeding), but other than that I feel that I’m almost back to normal……….although not quite up to speed!!
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