Pregnancy Week 35: Rest Is Training Too

Hello, welcome to week 35 of pregnancy.

I'm actually officially week 36 today, but we're going to discuss week 35.

Oh my goodness.

Okay.

What has been going on? I am just feeling better.

I think I told you this last week, but I continue to just feel a lot better at this point in pregnancy, which is just so crazy.

I mean, I will say I am heavy.

My belly is big and it is uncomfortable.

It is really hard to hold my toddler.

It is really hard to bend over.

My toddler started having tantrums this past week and you know how you want to like scooch down and go eye to eye with them and like be on their level and like talk in soothing tones.

It is very hard when you have this massive belly that makes it super hard to crouch down or bend over to, to do that.

So I am not going to like pretend like, Oh, everything is perfectly normal over here.

No, like I'm definitely big and uncomfortable.

Um, But I think just compared to how tired and sick and nauseous and bad I was feeling most of this pregnancy, I'm like, I'll take it.

You know, like I cannot even believe how much better running has been feeling.

My heart rate is not spiking so dramatically.

I definitely don't have like my normal pace.

control of my heart rate when I go running.

But, um, yesterday I did 4.25 miles.

I'm just kind of casually went out, enjoyed myself.

And I had run two days prior to that.

And, um, my body was recovered in time to run, you know, two days later.

So these are all like vast improvements over how I was doing a few weeks ago where running would like require, require me to take like three, four days off to like get another run in.

Um, I'm just, feeling so much better and stronger.