What's in store?

Post Good Life Halfsy with my boys!

So it has obviously been a long while since I have published a blog post.  Why? I haven’t been running.  Last May, right after Market to Market Iowa, I found out that I was pregnant with our third child.  While I felt a mixture of emotions, the two biggest were happiness and fear.  Happiness at the thought of completing our family with a newborn.  Fear at the thought of another miscarriage.  I immediately started taking it really easy with regards to my workouts.  I ran through May (usually about 6 miles at a time around a 9:30 pace), but then moved to strictly elliptical after that as my doctor recommended that I stick to low impact workouts.  Since then, I have run a total of 3 times: the Seward Freedom Run (2 miles), the Lincoln Mile, and one leg at Market to Market NE. 

As I am already an anxious person, I knew that I was going to have to keep myself extremely busy in order to keep negative thoughts and feelings at bay.  In addition to caring for Quinn and Anders, I took two courses this past summer and taught summer school.  This Fall, I began my fifth year teaching Life Skills at the ESU 7 and took on three more classes through UNK.  After this, I will have one class left to finish up my Administrative Endorsement.  It has been tough and I have had to be extremely diligent with my time, but here we are well into November and all is going well.  One more month of grinding and all of this will be behind me.

I have felt much happier now that I have passed 30 weeks into the pregnancy.  I have not experienced any problems^rd.  It would be awesome if he would wait until that point, but I almost have all my ducks in a row if he does come earlier.

up to this point and have scheduled the C-section for December 23

I have also allowed myself to start thinking about what I want to do athletically next year.  This answer is…I want to do a lot.  Not in terms of the number of events I compete in, but I want to do something big.  Again.  It has been awhile.  This time around, I am going to have to be extremely purposeful about my workouts.  And I need to get really, really good about my recovery days.  Add in recovery tactics.  In the past, I have tended to do what I feel like when I feel like it.  I have not done enough or have done too much, resulting in sub-par performances.

So.  Here’s to making it through the next several weeks.

And here’s to a big 2017, whatever that may look like.