"Running" While Pregnant: Week 22

I hope that I can remove the quotation marks from these weekly posts sometime soon. My aching sacrum has not really improved this week and I don't have another PT appointment until NEXT MONDAY(!) so there's still nothing close to running in my life.When I go in I will be having a pool session which I am SO looking forward to. If I can run in the pool then I will call it running and give myself credit. It will be a new challenge to have to get up, get in the car, put on a bathing suit and THEN get to working out. I am conditioned for stumbling out of bed, sticking contacts in my eyeballs, getting some form of workout gear on my body and running right from my doorstep.

I am trying to remember the positive aspects of the whole not running thing. So far the only really good one I can come up with is that I can take slow walks with Tommy & Elliott and count them as workouts, lame as they seem. (The weather has been decidedly fall-ish and not winter-ish... if it weren't for the 3.3 hours of daylight one would think it was mid- or late-October!) We had a beautiful 30 minute stroll on Sunday afternoon and my back hurt just enough times that I didn't get frustrated with the slow pace and frequent stops we took.

I did do 1 or 2 sessions on the elliptical machine this week but while they don't hurt during the workout, I definitely think they leave an "impression" on things the next day. I also did a couple of short yoga workouts. Like the elliptical, they don't hurt at the time but I think they cause some after effects that aren't so great. I've been doing the stretches the PT taught me like a woman possessed. I have no idea if they are helping but I'm telling myself without them I would be even worse... so I keep at it.

A more determined athlete would be doing lots of upper body strength training right now... I'm not sure if I ever was Her, but I'm definitely not now. Sometimes I just feel very, very pregnant. Funny how that can happen.

I have an appointment with my midwife on Thursday. I will be toting a 3-year-old, a 2-year-old, and a 7-month-old.... So it should be a very relaxing and enjoyable visit. Riiiiiggghhhhtttt....

My 5-year-old photographer always captures me at my best...