After spending the weekend around baby mad people. My little sister Sarah is pregnant (due in July) and my best friend is just a few weeks behind me, I’m now really excited about this whole journey. Not that I wasn’t before but I was still getting a bit stressed about things, now I’m just excited.
I also managed to finish my book “Running During Pregnancy” on the flight home and I’m motivated to get out there and give it a go again. I’m still feeling like crap but I’m going to continue to feel like this so I might as well just see what I can do.
This morning I woke up early, chomped on my muesli bar in bed (it was ok although too sweet, anything with dried fruit, sweeteners or sugar in it isn’t the best at the moment). Then I tried to go back to bed for a while as it was only 4am and finally got up about 6. I was determined to go for a run this morning, regardless of how I was feeling. So I got up and chomped on a few almonds (still wasn’t feeling great) and put on my running gear and headed out. The plan was to just run for 5km. In the past a 5km run would have been a treat as I was used to running between 8-12km easily. Today was a different story my 5km run felt like a marathon.
Running during the early stages of pregnancy can be hard due to feeling a bit breathless, increased heart rate, tiredness and nausea. Today I felt most of those things (expect tiredness as I went to bed aq 7:30pm last night!). I am so proud of myself for doing my jog though, it was hard (not huffing and puffing hard but I just don’t feel quite normal right now) but I did it. It took me 35minutes which is pretty slow for me but I jogged the whole thing and feel like I haven’t completely lost it. The best part of it all (you might want to stop reading now!) was that I got home and finally got to go to the toilet!!!! Yehaa! I don’t know if you know but it’s common to suffer from constipation during pregnancy and because of my average diet and lack of exercise it’s hit me bad. So if anything is going to get me out there and running knowing it will help me go to the loo is a big bonus.
So anyway the plan is for the hill walk tomorrow and to continue to try to do one thing each morning.
Anyway I’m off for a nap now, feeling a bit tired and the nausea starts to get worse.
