I planned a run instead of gym today, to take advantage of the beautiful 20º weather. Alas! I very nearly slept through it all this afternoon! I took an early lunch, so I could digest and run in the early afternoon. "Digesting" (ie: reading on my bed) turned into a two-hour nap! A wonderful, cozy nap indeed, but still, when it's this kind of warm in November, napping should at least take place outside on the lawn!
But, I guess I needed the rest. Rested and revived, I headed out around 3 PM and jogged 5.8 km in 38:30 min. It felt great.
I feel like I've found my pregnancy pace for running, ever since I had to re-adjusted around week 13 or so. Pre-pregnancy and 1st trimester, I was I was able to do 5K in about 25 minutes; about 5 min per kilometre. Since early October, I've been averaging a pace that's more like 6 or 6.5 min/kilometre, depending on the day. (And there was one slog in there that was as slow as 7 min/km.)
Since that's a pace that many regular folks run at normally, I feel pretty good about it (I'm constantly struggling with feeling lame at the amount of scaling back I've had to do...). Because it's all about winning the race, right? ;-)
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