Running: Yes! Wakeboarding: No :( Beer: Yes?!

Hold On...It's gonna be a long one today.

First, I ran for 21:33 on Saturday night. TWENTY ONE MINUTES AND 33 SECONDS. This is the longest uninterrupted time span I have ran in about a month. I was hitting a wall after 5 minutes lately, and having to walk, maybe resuming for another 5 minutes. There was no way in hell I could have ran any longer than 5 minutes. I started to respond to people's questions about how running was going with, "Well, I might have to hang up the running shoes soon - It hasn't been going very well." I told a co-worker that I was going to given running one more shot before throwing in the towel. That one shot was Saturday night. I got to 5 minutes and thought, "I think I can keep going!". Imagine my surprise when I made it to 10 minutes...15 minutes. Around 18 minutes the belly did start to get uncomfortable but I was almost home and really wanted to hit 20 minutes. So 2.4176 miles were done. 8:54 pace - not terrible. I had a green popsicle to celebrate (and cool down). I still have that cramp in my upper left thigh though so I'm not so sure that swimming was the cause. So now I have to do at least one more run - I would love it if I could say, "I ran on the day I delivered" but am not holding myself to that. One day at a time...

I had another doctor appointment this morning and he confirmed that it will be a wakeboarding and waterskiing free summer for me :( I had my suspicions that this would be the case, thus I did not partake in any of these activities over the weekend, although I was tempted, if only for the photo op. My cousin-in-law and I talked about the potential of having maternity life jackets. I did not get a picture of myself in a life jacket, but may have to at some point because it looks so funny.

In other news, despite my threats at work that I'm becoming pre-eclamptic, my blood pressure is still fine (101/52). I only gained 2 lbs in the past month! I'm up 26 lbs. Bad news - this is still 5 lbs over where I "should" be. It took almost 30 weeks, but I am ok with this :) I actually feel like my weight has redistributed itself to the belly - my boobs don't even feel as big anymore. This is probably impossible and the fact is that I'm probably just getting used to my new body, but still. My husband told me the other day that I looked like a Somalian child - skinny with a big belly. I appreciated where he was trying to go with that comment, but still had to shake my head at that one.

I used to get really relieved when the heartbeat machine came around - like, Phew! The baby is still alive. Now the baby is pummeling me pretty much constantly so I know it's all good - still hearing the heartbeat always brings a smile.

I have been really craving a beer lately. It's summer! What is a summer without beer?! One of my friends mentioned the possibility of non-alcoholic beer. We went to the store and it still has 1/2% alcohol in it so I was still leery. Thus, I asked my doctor about this today. I was totally nervous asking him about this because I didn't want him to think I was a lush. Really, in all honesty, I am not that hard up for a drink, but I was curious what he would say. His response when I asked him about NA beer was, "Have you ever had that stuff?" to which I responded, "No". He started laughing. "It's awful. A few sips of that will cure your beer craving." Then he went all into the science of dose-response and how alcohol doesn't really act like that, which is why there is a "no alcohol during pregnancy" warning, yadda yadda. (I say yadda yadda but I really thought it was interesting - just don't want to re-type it all). Bottom line, a NA beer or two in the next couple of weeks isn't going to be a problem. Bottom line bonus - a REAL beer or glass of wine or two in the next few weeks isn't going to be a problem. He commented, "You know when all your friends are at the lake and they're all waterskiing and you're not, i say go ahead and have a beer." It was a good laugh. He commented that the real "problem" would probably be all the bad looks people will give you for drinking a beer while pregnant so he recommended pouring it into an opaque glass.

So am I going to booze it up now? A few dong bongs at BK's 30th birthday party perhaps? Uh, no. But I do think I might share a beer with my husband and not feel bad about it now.