Pooped!

Until today, it had been 6 days since my last run. Dang, how'd that happen?? I guess time flies when you're busy. We had to watch a friend's daughter for the weekend and since Jon really can't control two kids with his bum shoulder I couldn't really get out. And then two trips to Ikea and playgroups and a 3.5 hour nap got in the way the next two days. It made it pretty much impossible to get a run or workout of some sort in. But that's ok, I'll get back on track and especially so since it's great outside.

I did get outside for a measly 3 mile run but it was a super slow run. I'm feeling super tired this week. It might have something to do with the 'ol POSITIVE I got on Monday morning :-). Finally. I had to wait a week to get it but it's well worth it. I was so relieved to finally get it, obviously, since we've been wanting to be pregnant since September.

I'm only 5 weeks along, and I know it's still super early to tell you guys, but I figured I could write about it and get advice from other peeps who have been or are pregnant and trying to stay pretty active. Last pregnancy I didn't run much at all. My doctors, then, said I needed to keep my HR around 140 and that was pretty much impossible so I got very discouraged. I did play softball during the first Trimester so I guess if that counts as some sort of exercise we'll count it :-). So yes, I am pooped and holy cow I have to go much slower during my runs. I am used to going about 8:30 to 9:00 and today i think I was averaged around a 10:30 or more just so I wasn't huffing and puffing. And I had to include some walk breaks. The nausea hasn't hit, yet, so that makes me happy! I had it pretty bad from about 6 weeks to about 12 with jackson so we'll see if it happens again.

My trip to Ikea with just me and Jackson didn't really work out AT ALL. He was great during the fist part and then during lunch. But then he started to get tired and we got to the marketplace and all he wanted to do was get down and get into things. Needless to say, we went back the next day with Jon because I couldn't get a lot of the things we needed. Lesson learned :-)

Looking to incorporate more vegetarian recipes into the mix so if anyone has any great ones please share!! I was doing really great but then we kind of got in a rut and it's time to get back to about a 50/50. I'm trying to go more vegetarian for health and saving some moola (well, not really saving, but more to spend on organic and range fed meat). Anyway, please share!!!