{"id":3023,"date":"2012-04-30T14:51:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T13:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/?p=3023"},"modified":"2012-06-25T22:17:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T21:17:29","slug":"running-not-pregnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/running-not-pregnant\/","title":{"rendered":"Running – NOT pregnant……"},"content":{"rendered":"

…….it’s been a while!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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!!<\/p>\n

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’.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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!!<\/p>\n

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…….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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[380,379],"tags":[396],"class_list":["post-3023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-running-over-40","category-running-pregnant","tag-pregnant","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}