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Monday, March 3, 2014

February Week 4 Workout Recap

Last week was amazing! I completed my first half marathon, while pregnant! Got to spend the week on vacation with my family. Eat some yummy food. And hang with my best girlfriend, my sole sister, and her hubs! Needless to say, I didn't run after the race. But I did a ton of walking, and a lot of eating of good food. (per the scale) I am up 2 lbs from before we left but my belly/baby did grow some on the trip. I remember looking down on Wednesday thinking WOW my belly is so much rounder!

Prepping for baby: Now that we are home and I am in the home stretch, 10 weeks left, we will be getting things set up and ready for Collin. Matt and I have to get used to having the baby stuff all over the house again, like the pack n play in our room, which is usually a baby/kid free zone. Matt also wants to get the base of the car seat set up in the van to "get used to it being there"

Prepping Mason: He gives hugs and kisses to my belly and says HI baby! We got a gift for Mason to give Collin and a gift for Collin to give Mason. We found a really great bubble blower at Disney. I am trying to get some things to keep entertained this summer but I have a feeling that we will be spending a ton of time at the park!

Sunday: 13.1 miles Disney Princes Half Marathon (14:48 pace but with the potty breaks and choke points my official time was 3:50:07 a 17:34 min/mile)
Monday: Walked Universal Parks
Tuesday: Walked Epcot and Hollywood Studio Parks
Wednesday: Walked Animal Kingdom Park
Thursday: Walked Magic Kingdom Park
Friday: Walked Animal Kingdom and Epcot Park
Saturday: rest, drive home

Total mileage: 13.1 (add an extra 10-15 miles if you include the estimated 2-3 miles a day at the parks)

I wish I had a Fitbit for this week to see how many miles I actually walked everyday at the parks. We were estimating about 3 miles a day. My feet were so tired on Monday and Tuesday from the race and the chaffing, ouch! But we made it work. I felt more normal on Wednesday. I am actually really proud of my recovery time. I thought it would take a little longer.

We're HOME!

Wow! Last week went by so quickly! I love vacations for that reason, but also dislike them for the same reason. We all need a break from the everyday life so it is nice to get out of the norm and have a little fun too!

I am so excited to tell you that I DID FINSIH MY RACE! If you followed me on Facebook, twitter or Instagram you got to see all the pictures first, but have no fear they will be here soon!

Today is another snow day for us here in central VA so we get a vacation from our vacation.  I wanted to take a day to gather my thoughts, download my pictures and tomorrow I will start writing all my fun vacation posts, including my first Disney Princess Race Recap!

But for today, we are all a little worn out from our 2 days of driving and will be resting, a lot!

Sunday, February 23, 2014

GO!!!!!

Here I go, by this point I will be, oh, around mile 7 or so, hoping that my song of choice is the 7 mile anthem. Katy Perry's Roar. It goes perfectly with my "running story". I just can't believe that I am actually doing this! I AM EARNING MY TIARA while 29 weeks pregnant! ROCKSTAR!

Saturday, February 22, 2014

February Week 3 Workout Recap

I am doing this a day early since I have a fun post tomorrow that goes along with my previous 2 posts.

This lovely week was my taper week! I really do love taper week! So wonderful. I know that I will enjoy doing less mileage from here on out because my body was so happy with it this week. I won't do this small amount of mileage but it will be along these lines. I had planned on going to prenatal yoga on Thursday and doing a mile-mile and a half before but I was so busy we didn't make it. I wanted to do at least 1/2 the 1/2 marathon this week through walking and running but didn't make it. That is ok. I feel ready for tomorrow and that is all I need.

Pregnancy is going well too. The first 1.5 miles really hurts because my body doesn't want to move as much but after that point I am fine. I guess that is how any body is though pregnant or not. Kind of interesting. All I am thankful for is that my body is allowing me to move as much as I do pregnant.

Sunday: rest
Monday: 2 mile walk
Tuesday: 3 mile run/walk- (15:13 min mile)
Wednesday: rest
Thursday: rest (but ran around town like a turkey with its head cut off)
Friday: rest
Saturday: walk around the expo and rest, rest, rest

5 miles total mileage at 28 weeks pregnant. (my belly is smaller now than it was with Mace at this point! PRETTY COOL! I think I am losing belly fat while pregnant and super happy about that!)

Friday, February 21, 2014

Get Set...

We are all set to go here. I packed all I could last night and left the rest to this morning. I am taking an extra bag I wasn't thinking of taking, but considering that we only have one medium/large sized bag for both Matt and I that is pretty good. Plus the extra bag will have all my marathon stuff in it so that I can just grab that bag Saturday night and that is it.

This morning I am off to get my belly taped for the weekend! Hoping it stays on and doesn't cause too many issues between now and Sunday.

Then to pick up some dry ice for the cooler. Make breakfast for all of us and off we go! I am super excited for my race and glad that everything is done, including this beauty! Here is the back and the rest, well that will be shown on Race morning!
Check me out on FB, Twitter, and Instagram for updates and plenty of pix before I come back and post them all here!
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