As the start of my 8^th month approaches I find that I will be lucky to:

• Run much at all
• Workout much at all

Baby girl is starting to cause me great discomfort.  I guess I should be proud of even being able to have lasted this many months running more than 20 miles a week.  I am pretty sure that 2 weeks ago I overdid it by running 27 miles.  PLEASE DON’T TELL MY HUSBAND!

But last week she really started to hurt my pelvic bone(s) and I am taking things very slowly.  As you can imagine that is extremely hard for me to do.  Last week I ran 13 miles and realized that was it for me.  I had to take 4 days off and do nothing – no working out and it was hard but I felt good.

Monday I took a low impact class at the Y and ran VERY SLOWLY for 2 miles.. Tuesday I lifted and ran about 5 miles with walking in between.  I have to say I could still walk on Wednesday and that is a good thing!  Last Thursday I could barely walk at all without significant pain.  The lovely new maternity support belt I am now rocking with my everyday attire has helped. 

I think I will be lucky to get ten miles a week in now.  BUT again I am thankful that I could make it this far.  When I was pregnant with Thing 1 I didn’t last past 3 months running (wasn’t much of a runner then though). 

I will take one day at a time – one week at a time – and truly listen to my body.  The doctor told me that if I didn’t pay attention to my body I could end up on bedrest.  That is a phrase I could not hear – imagine telling Thing 1 to sit still for an hour – that won’t happen!  So I promise to listen to my body and do only what I can and not push myself.

Besides – I have to be able to run the full in October!!!!