Whew! What a week! I didn't get a whole lot of treadmill time in this week, but I did get some other exercise in. I got the family a Wii for Christmas (including Wii Fit), so I've been having a lot of fun with that. I rock at boxing--no one can touch me! However, now my shoulders and back are incredibly sore from it. This morning I did roughly 24 minutes of Yoga. My favorite is the warrior pose!
I made a wonderful ham for Christmas, and I didn't eat any pie!! Woot woot! Now if it were a pie I liked, that would have been a completely different story. Ryan's mom made a pumpkin pie and some yucky chocolate pie with meringue and a graham cracker crust. I asked her not to make one, because I wanted to make an apple pie. I found out two days before that she was bringing them anyway. Yuck.
Kennedy will be 15 weeks old this Tuesday...I can't believe it! Where does time go? Another amazing thing is that I'm still nursing! It is so much easier after we get over the 'hump'. With Kahri I only nursed her for roughly 6 weeks or so because of latch issues and lack of support. So far with my marathon training it hasn't seemed to have affected my breastmilk. Supposedly high levels of exercise produces enough lactic acid to affect the way breastmilk tastes and many babies don't like it.
Before getting on the computer I had just got done walking at a good incline (highest setting on a 5-position treadmill) for 20 minutes at 3.2 speed. This may not seem like much, but I burned over 200 calories. Right now I am just trying to get my muscles aclimated to the motion of exercise. I have a week or two to work up to doing 30 minutes of walking, then slowly I incorporate a few minutes of running alternating with walking. At around 6 minutes I wanted to quit. My head was (well, still is)throbbing (I don't take any meds for headaches only because I can't ever remember which ones are safe to take while nursing!) and it seemed like the easy thing to do. But then I remembered in the Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer book that any time you start to feel that way, just to say "but it doesn't matter". So I said it, and it went away. But then again around 16 minutes I felt that way again because not only my head hurt, but my toes were starting to go numb. I googled this a month or so ago and apparently it's more-than-likely Morton's Neuroma. I need to find shoes with a wider box, and buy shoes about a 1/2 inch bigger. If all else fails, I need to see a podiatrist for it. I went another 4 minutes before my head got to be too much.
I can't wait to be able to go outside to run instead of inside. Supposedly one is not supposed to listen to music while running (besides obvious safety issues) because you'll start to sync your tempo with it. That, and a lot of races don't allow them so it's best not to get used to running with music. Running on the treadmill is incredibly boring to me. We have a TV with a dish upstairs but I haven't figured out how to hook it up yet. So I just run in my little corner of the small, square room that also houses the bowflex. We had an ice storm today, and now it's snowing like crazy. And prior to this week temperatures were -30 with windchill (about -12 without). That's a little too unsafe for me to train in.
Well, this headache will probably go away if I quit looking at this computer screen and get some shut-eye. Goodnight!
Kate