Tired of Running

I ran my three miles today. I wasn't very excited about it. Those first 5-10 minutes of running are always so rough for me. My stride feels awkward I'm out of breath and tired. Then I start to get into a grove and things get better till the last couple hills of my route. I was out there I'm glad I went out there. Yet it is getting harder and harder to encourage myself to continue.

Today was the original date of the race I was going to run. I think if I would of run today I might have just said good bye to running. Since my race is now two weeks away I will press on for two more weeks. I hope I have a much improved disposition by that time.

I am undecided if I will run another 5k at the beginning of April. I'm thinking I will go ahead and register and see how it goes. Maybe with some of my money out there it will encourage me to continue. The race is on April 1st then we will be leaving for our vacation on April 6th. Since our vacation will involve a lot of hiking it would behove me to be in good physical condition.

I would really like to continue running into the beginning half of my next pregnancy. I have read some research that exercise early in pregnancy may play a role in decreasing your risk of pre-eclampsia. I'm afraid that it will be difficult for me to continue once I'm pregnant. What a better excuse not to run than to say Oh I'm pregnant I really shouldn't. I'm hoping exercise may help to decrease that first trimester nausea but I don't think it will do much for that fatigue.