Official time: 2:59
I'm pretty disappointed with my race. Only 20 seconds faster than my fall marathon. I think my marathon days are over. I really hoped to get 2:55-2:57 and thought this race would be a bellweather as to whether I should really dig into training harder to get down to a OTQ time, but I didn't. Given all the time, effort, and pain involved in marathon training, I'm not sure I'd want to run more only to match my time as 2:59 seems to be my destined PR. Plus, I'd actually prefer running half-marathons and 10-milers. They are easier to absorb in our schedules and don't consume massive amounts of our weekend time together.
Mile Splits:
Ave: 6:46
1: 6:51
2: 6:41
3: 6:38
4: 6:33
5: 6:45
6: 6:36
7: 6:39
8: 6:40
9: 6:37
10: 6:41
11: 6:41
12: 6:33
13: 6:35
14: 6:41
15: 6:53
16: 6:33
17: 6:59
18: 7:01
19: 6:44
20: 6:48
21: 7:23
22: 6:36
23: 6:51
24: 7:02
25: 6:51
26: 7:10
0.2: 6:34
And, now, on to FET. I start my meds tomorrow. (Side story for later: RE switched us to FET at the last minute. 50% chance of working...and we're putting in both embryos. 20% chance of twins! ahhh!)
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Sometimes You Just Need to Let Loose
Seriously.
Big. life. stuff. can take the wind out of your sails. Dying grandmother. Infertile couple. Money stress. Etc.
Sometimes, all you need is a little time with your bestest friends in the whole world and a lot of alcohol. I am a little self conscious putting this out there because you know I am a *mom* and everything. But, it was oh so much fun to just go out and get a little crazy. I seriously don't think I have had as much as I had to drink on Saturday as I have had in YEARS. Definitely since my early single post college days. I'm not condoning this sort of activity...but still.
There are three of us from high school that are still close. These are the girls that know me better than anyone. That can tell my childhood stories. That can joke about my family and all their craziness. My biggest advocates. The people that will tell me like it is. I love them. This past weekend, one flew in from Nashville for the engagement party of the third that lives here. The engagement party featured a "something blue" drink that beckoned the horrible punches concocted by frat boys in college...and I had a lot of "something blue" that night. I'll have to decide if I can take the public embarassment involved in posting my "jumping on the couch" incident at the end of the night...
One week until Big Spring Marathon. I'm hitting my splits at the track, but my legs don't feel so peppy. They were this way before the last marathon, so I've been expecting this. I'm so excited for the marathon to be over, but am thankful that I have it as a distraction. We decided to do a fresh cycle IVF next month because it has a higher success rate and only (ha) costs about $2500-$3000 more than the frozen embryo transfer (total cost $7500-$8000 w/ insurance covering slightly less than half). I feel a huge sense of peace in this decision....in fact, I've had an overwelming sense of calm and peacefulness this past week. I don't know whether it's because we have a plan or whether my body is happy to be hormone free, but it's been such a relief.
Anyway, here are my running stats for last week:
4/5/2010: 6 miles, Body Flow
4/6/2010: 10 miles: 1600 (5:46), 1200 (4:14), 800 (2:43, 2:46), 400 (1:19)
4/7/2010: 8.5 miles
4/8/2010: 8.5 miles
4/9/2010: 9 miles w/ 4 miles at 6:18 pace (6:26, 6:16, 6:14, 6:17)
4/10/2010: 6.5 miles
4/11/2010: 14 miles @ 7:45 pace ave.
Total Mileage: 62.5 miles
Big. life. stuff. can take the wind out of your sails. Dying grandmother. Infertile couple. Money stress. Etc.
Sometimes, all you need is a little time with your bestest friends in the whole world and a lot of alcohol. I am a little self conscious putting this out there because you know I am a *mom* and everything. But, it was oh so much fun to just go out and get a little crazy. I seriously don't think I have had as much as I had to drink on Saturday as I have had in YEARS. Definitely since my early single post college days. I'm not condoning this sort of activity...but still.
There are three of us from high school that are still close. These are the girls that know me better than anyone. That can tell my childhood stories. That can joke about my family and all their craziness. My biggest advocates. The people that will tell me like it is. I love them. This past weekend, one flew in from Nashville for the engagement party of the third that lives here. The engagement party featured a "something blue" drink that beckoned the horrible punches concocted by frat boys in college...and I had a lot of "something blue" that night. I'll have to decide if I can take the public embarassment involved in posting my "jumping on the couch" incident at the end of the night...
One week until Big Spring Marathon. I'm hitting my splits at the track, but my legs don't feel so peppy. They were this way before the last marathon, so I've been expecting this. I'm so excited for the marathon to be over, but am thankful that I have it as a distraction. We decided to do a fresh cycle IVF next month because it has a higher success rate and only (ha) costs about $2500-$3000 more than the frozen embryo transfer (total cost $7500-$8000 w/ insurance covering slightly less than half). I feel a huge sense of peace in this decision....in fact, I've had an overwelming sense of calm and peacefulness this past week. I don't know whether it's because we have a plan or whether my body is happy to be hormone free, but it's been such a relief.
Anyway, here are my running stats for last week:
4/5/2010: 6 miles, Body Flow
4/6/2010: 10 miles: 1600 (5:46), 1200 (4:14), 800 (2:43, 2:46), 400 (1:19)
4/7/2010: 8.5 miles
4/8/2010: 8.5 miles
4/9/2010: 9 miles w/ 4 miles at 6:18 pace (6:26, 6:16, 6:14, 6:17)
4/10/2010: 6.5 miles
4/11/2010: 14 miles @ 7:45 pace ave.
Total Mileage: 62.5 miles
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Making It Through
It's hard to train from a psychological fetal position. I'm already defeated by life right now and it is a struggle just to make it through the work day and front a positive attitude. I just want to sit at home in my sweats, watch Nugget play, and feel sorry for myself. Each day feels like one of those days at the track when you just don't want to be there and you have to pull yourself through the workout. We're moving forward with either IVF or a Frozen Embryo Transfer next month. I get the next two weeks off drugs and then I start my injections the day after Big Spring Marathon in prep for the cycle. We still haven't decided if we are doing IVF or FET. The cost differential is about $3-4K b/c FETs aren't covered by insurance, but we're going to be out $5K-9K at the end of next month. IVF has a 50-60% success rate, whereas FET only has a 20% success rate.
My legs are feeling a bit better. I cut my long run short this past weekend because I just wasn't feeling it. I was getting over a cold and my body felt a little tired and achy. I perked up at the track today and was spitting out some pretty good splits (see below). I still don't feel as perky as I felt before the 1/2 marathon, but I'm hoping that I come back with my taper the next two weeks.
I have no idea what pace to shoot for at Big Spring Marathon. Maybe 2:56/2:57 (6:42-6:45 pace)? My 1/2 marathon was predictive of a 2:53 (6:35 pace), but I don't know that I can go that fast.
Last Week's Mileage:
3/29/2010: 6.5 miles, Body Flow
3/30/2010: 12 miles, 8x800 (2:54, 2:48, 2:49, 2:46, 2:50, 2:53, 2:54, 2:54) (I kind of died 1/2 way through; guess I was feeling the 22 mile long run), 30 min yoga
3/31/2010: 12 miles am // 5 miles pm
4/1/2010: 12 miles am // 3 miles pm
4/2/2010: 11 miles total, 4 miles @ 6:14
4/3/2010: 11 miles, 20 minutes yoga, abs
4/4/2010: 14 miles @ 7:20 pace
Total: 86.5 miles
Track practice today:
4/6/2010: 10 miles total: 1600 (5:46), 1200 (4:14), 800 (2:43, 2:46), 400 (1:19)
My legs are feeling a bit better. I cut my long run short this past weekend because I just wasn't feeling it. I was getting over a cold and my body felt a little tired and achy. I perked up at the track today and was spitting out some pretty good splits (see below). I still don't feel as perky as I felt before the 1/2 marathon, but I'm hoping that I come back with my taper the next two weeks.
I have no idea what pace to shoot for at Big Spring Marathon. Maybe 2:56/2:57 (6:42-6:45 pace)? My 1/2 marathon was predictive of a 2:53 (6:35 pace), but I don't know that I can go that fast.
Last Week's Mileage:
3/29/2010: 6.5 miles, Body Flow
3/30/2010: 12 miles, 8x800 (2:54, 2:48, 2:49, 2:46, 2:50, 2:53, 2:54, 2:54) (I kind of died 1/2 way through; guess I was feeling the 22 mile long run), 30 min yoga
3/31/2010: 12 miles am // 5 miles pm
4/1/2010: 12 miles am // 3 miles pm
4/2/2010: 11 miles total, 4 miles @ 6:14
4/3/2010: 11 miles, 20 minutes yoga, abs
4/4/2010: 14 miles @ 7:20 pace
Total: 86.5 miles
Track practice today:
4/6/2010: 10 miles total: 1600 (5:46), 1200 (4:14), 800 (2:43, 2:46), 400 (1:19)
Friday, April 2, 2010
And Now We're Here Again
Well, just got another BFN. Our third. And, now we're officially moving on to hard-core fertility treatments. I'm hoping that we can get in a Frozen Embryo Transfer this month, but seems I will likely be ovulating the weekend that we are going away for Boston.
I'm so depressed about this. Or maybe it's just all the freaking hormones. I'm tired of being on those, too.
I had hoped that we would get to be the lucky ones that had no problems TTC after going through IVF. But, we're not. The improvement in my husband's sperm over the past two years made us hopeful that this would be possible, but it doesn't seem to have improved enough. He had three freaking targets this time and his guys couldn't even get one.
OK, let's try and focus on the positive...
--Big Spring Marathon is still on. Let's hope I get another PR. That would be the one glimmer of hope in these past four miserable months.
--ALCOHOL! I get to drink at my friend's engagement party and my sister's wedding!
--One of my best friends is getting married in Dec 2010 and now we'll definitely be going to her wedding.
That's it. That's my list. It will have to be my mantra to get through the next two weeks. Heaven help me if there are any more pregnancy announcements.
I'm so depressed about this. Or maybe it's just all the freaking hormones. I'm tired of being on those, too.
I had hoped that we would get to be the lucky ones that had no problems TTC after going through IVF. But, we're not. The improvement in my husband's sperm over the past two years made us hopeful that this would be possible, but it doesn't seem to have improved enough. He had three freaking targets this time and his guys couldn't even get one.
OK, let's try and focus on the positive...
--Big Spring Marathon is still on. Let's hope I get another PR. That would be the one glimmer of hope in these past four miserable months.
--ALCOHOL! I get to drink at my friend's engagement party and my sister's wedding!
--One of my best friends is getting married in Dec 2010 and now we'll definitely be going to her wedding.
That's it. That's my list. It will have to be my mantra to get through the next two weeks. Heaven help me if there are any more pregnancy announcements.
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