I decided to do a 5 km treadmill time trial today. Because there's no time like being 33 weeks pregnant to do a 5 km treadmill time trial. Normally time trial means finishing on my knees, retching into the nearest garbage can and wheezing like a cow in heat; at 33 weeks pregnant time trial means how fast can I run without getting my heart rate over 155, without chafing my inner thighs until they bleed and without peeing all over the treadmill (sorry tmi).
4 km warm-up: 22:06.
5 km: 25:54 (5:11 per km)
6 minutes easy
3 X 1 km: 5:13, 5:12, 5:05
15 minutes cool-down.
In total - 16.2 km in 1 hour 30 minutes.
Heart rate: never above 152
Fluid loss: about 1 pound
Weird looks: none (I swear working out while pregnant has gone mainstream since my last pregnancy)
Chafing: oh... so... terrible
This big baby thing is such a relief. With la cocotte she was tracking always in the 10th percentile or lower and I felt some guilt & anxiety about exercising despite reassurances from my ob that everything was fine. Towards the middle of my third trimester I started having cream on my morning cereal in an attempt to cram in more calories. La cocotte did turn out perfectly healthy and of course had I been living in France (for example) her fetal growth rate and birth weight (6 lbs 7 oz) would not have raised any eyebrows; we just seem to make big babies here in Canada I myself weighed less than 6 pounds at birth, apparently there is an important genetic component in birth weight. But nonetheless, having a "big baby" inside me is a bonus in many ways. I feel much freer to continue exercising and I hate to sound like body image obsessed person (that I am) of course it means less weight for me to lose afterwards (yuck, I can't believe I admitted that). On the other hand, according to la cocotte I am carrying "deux filles, deux garcons, et un crocodile et un monkey" so, if that's the case, the baby(ies) are not actually that big after all.
That crocodile might be worrisome. I can't believe that I start feeling good about my running and then you do 10 miles in 90 minutes. Thanks.
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