It's a depressingly sure sign of what a toll age and childbearing have taken on me that I ran/walked for a combined total of ONE HOUR-- only about 24 minutes of that actually running, give or take-- and now my Couch to 5K program is on hold. If my knees continue to hurt like this tomorrow, I'm calling my doctor for an appointment.
Every time something new happens that's never happened before-- like gray hair, or this knee thing-- I'm almost comically shocked by it. I mean, I think my "mental" age is something like 24 or 25, which, while only 8 or 9 years ago, feels like a million years by all the mileage two pregnancies have put on my body.
I don't know what it was like for the rest of you mothers, but I feel like I bounced back well and quickly after the first baby. The second, however? I'm just a few pounds from my pre-pregnancy weight, but in many ways, I hardly recognize myself. This running thing is one of those ways, because I've never had to actually quit some sort of physical activity before because it actually hurt.
I'm disappointed. Not hopeless-- I mean, who knows, maybe there's a way around this--but I'm disappointed I can't continue to challenge myself in this way for the immediate future. I took a walk today, in keeping with the promise to myself to exercise at least three days per week, but it hurt and I was slow. I'm going to see how the knee thing continues to shake down, and then re-evaluate where to go from here. It may be gym workouts (we belong to the Y), and it may be yoga, but the bottom line is that I need to keep moving somehow.
1 comment:
Don't beat yourself - literally and figuratively! If you haven't been doing much then run/walking for an hour is quite a feat! REALLY. I've been run/walking for almost 5 years now and if I have a day where I've put in 5K then I'm ecstatic. If you push yourself too fast (that means listening to your body not to a book or chart) you'll get hurt. Go slow and have fun.
And pre-pregnancy body? What's that?
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