I had my precious little girl on April, 29 2013. During my pregnancy and since I've been relatively low key about my workouts. I did remain active, running for the first 20 weeks followed by lower intense exercise like the elliptical and walking my dog during the second 20 weeks. I enjoyed the time off from the training I had done in the past. I have run 15 marathons - 19 if you include the marathons I ran durning my four ironman triathlon finishes. Ive also competed in many other half ironmans, half marathons and other races. I actually thought maybe I'd be done for good as I really did enjoy the time off. I liked not being stressed out about how or when I was going to get my workout in - I enjoyed having more time - especially in the morning, I loved leisurely having my coffee and read the paper. These are some of the little things I missed when I trained hard for races. Anyway, I said to myself on repeated occasions - yep, I don't have the bug, I'll work out to stay healthy and lead a more normal physically active type of life.
Well, it's been 9 weeks since I had Emme and I've increasingly grown a little restless. I envy the runners and cyclists who pass our house throughout the day. I'm becoming reengaged in what my husband is doing for workouts. I like to hear about how my sister's ironman training is going. Every week I've felt a little more like myself though any routine was just not happening. I continued to walk the dog everyday - a little bit further, a little more aggressive as the day/weeks have gone by. It wasn't until this past weekend when Cohasset triathlon took place and i had major pangs of jealousy where I decided - I'm throwing myself back into it. I have kind of made up my mind I will register for the lake placid ironman 2014. Why an ironman? Why not shoot for the stars. I love long distance stuff - so there you go.
As of right now, I'm completely out of shape. I can maybe run 1 mile without stopping, I haven't been in a pool or on my bike since late last summer. I'm starting from scratch. What I do have on my is experience. We'll see how far that carries me! Oh, also I have 15 lbs to lose to get to a fairly normal weight for me of 125... And 20-25 lbs for race weight. I'm also breast feeding so that is an interesting challenge too. We shall see but I'm pretty determined when it comes to these things - and I'd love to give it a try!!
