In 9 months, my 10K pace went from 12:09/mm to 9:09/mm.
In 3 months, I will run a marathon.
In 3 months, I will attempt to get pregnant for someone else.
I'm not ready for either.
But I keep working everyday to be sure I can go the distance. All the reading I've done says that if I put in the work, I will get to the finish line. In the month of June, I fell 3.5 miles shy of the recommended training plan. That's it.
July is tough though - I have 141 miles to run, I missed a long run and slept through two mid week runs already. I'll be playing catch up for the rest of the month to add those 20+ miles into an already tight training schedule.
As far as the pregnancy, no news is good news. I continue to monitor my cycles and am frustrated by it. When I had my own babies, there was no planning involved...it probably took a few drinks and a happy husband and BAM! I was pregnant...
With my two previous surrogacies, they were medicated cycles so my treating physician put a date on the calendar, jacked me up with hormones and we had a baby. This time will be a natural cycle so I need to be *very* in tune with what my body is doing. Baby Center's prediction is slightly off from Fertility Friend's predictions for my peak time in October. There's so much to coordinate all based on these dates....
And those pesky few pounds that I need to go away... 3 months isn't very much time for them to just vanish off my body!
So yeah, 3 months. That's not a lot of time at all!
