So this winter I was all smug thinking: I'm on maternity leave. That means NOT mixing with 300+ snotty/snuffly/coughing teenagers every week. I am going to be so flipping healthy! I am going to be able to forgo the ludicrous and probably futile consumption of truckloads of echinacea! I will skip blithely through the winter months like a...oh. You're funny.
Have the worst headcold, with a cough and sore sinuses and earache and the works. And I think that maybe dealing with teenagers while feeling rotten is perhaps not as demanding as dealing with actual human poo and someone who is constantly hungry and whose only food-source is me. And I cannot believe I beat week 5, only to be beaten by this!
So - any tips to kick me out of my little pity party and cheer me the merry hell up very welcome indeed!
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Vit d echinacea colloidal silver all help. I'm breastfeeding my second still so sleep deprived etc but as with running good to not think ahead. One run at a time one day at a time!! Watch a film funny things on you tube and eat what you fancy. Xx when are you due? Amazing that you run....that is incredible!!!! Xx
Oh good shout actually - I'm crap at remembering my vit D!
I'm post-natal not pre; baby is just coming up for 5 months so I'm still exclusively breastfeeding (well, except a tiny bit of illicit butternut squash because he was snatching my food and sitting up and generally looking extremely up for it: don't tell the health visitor!!), but had to stop running to gain weight for fertility treatment and then had rather a debilitating delivery, so it's a slow return to race fitness for me: and definitely yes, in motherhood and running, one day (or, you know, moment!) at a time. xx
Well good on you for running and breastfeeding incredible xx Breastfeeding never makes me thinner so maybe I will turn into a warrior women in this process! xx Lots of good vibes hope the day is restful! (I cannot sit down with an 14 month old and 4 year old so I'm fantasising a bit!). As others have said you have done it before so you have muscle memory x
Oh TF just what you need at the minute. Not. Eat well, rest well (I know I know 😕) and just let it take its course.
In the meantime if you've nothing else to do 😂 you could check out some races for this year, do some shopping for new gear, follow some blogs, look for new routes for when you're up and running again, check in here.
You're a pro so you know to ease yourself back into it, yay-di-yah......
Feel better soon and I'll make you a virtual (whole milk) chocolate drink with cinnamon and dark chocolate sprinkles 😋 x
The half, obvs. I'm not (completely) mad. And alas it will depend a wee bit on what the gynae has to say later this month about my collapsing bits (oh, the glamour!!?! Sorry!)
No real magic tips. Just engage the services of Dad aka MrTea to look after the young man to allow you some real quality time in the bath with a lovely running book (but not The End of the World Running Club, which was very disappointing). Cups of tea & plenty of rest.
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