I have been walking and gradually adding jog segments this week, and then today took it up a notch and did a 5k at a reasonable pace--not enough to hurt, but definitely a workout. (ok that is called long-run pace...fine, so 3 miles is my long run right now.) That makes sense, a month ago at the end of pregnancy I was doing walking workouts of 3 miles in an hour, so I can't expect to have any more endurance than that. Actually that fact kind of surprised me. I expected to get the baby out and suddenly be able to run like I used to, but really I just picked up where I left off. Except now I will be getting quicker as time goes on, not slower and slower! So this run today was a 5k in 40 minutes--13 minute mile, which was my reliable pace about 5th and 6th months of pregnancy. It will be nice to see that number drop now. I wonder how quickly I can expect that. Before pregnancy my 5k runs were about 29 mins.
Well I haven't done any other workouts, I thought Bob and Jillian (my new DVDs!) would be too intense. But maybe I will do yoga or upper body this week and get into an ever-other day run schedule.
I am just happy to be running again! It feels so good. Woo!
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