Can't stop us now!

I've always wanted to run while I was pregnant, but never made it past a month or two. So when I found out I was pregnant two months after I finished a marathon in April, I decided this would be the pregnancy I ran through. I envisioned me not gaining much of anything until after the race and sailing through pregnancy getting a healthy baby at the end of it all. Let's just say training has been hard. Instead of getting faster and smaller like I usually do when I'm training, I got slower and bigger. But, I did it. Today I ran 13.1 miles, 20 weeks pregnant in 2 hours and 33 minutes. I doubted whether it was worth it while I was training but now I can say without hesitation that it was worth it! The race was fun, I feel great and I'm grateful to have been blessed with a healthy and strong body. I'm grateful that my husband likes to tag along for the ride too.

Here we are before the race. We made it a family event.

The guy in the shadows there is Seth finishing the race. The reason you can't see me in the picture is because I wasn't within sight. Yes it's true, even though he ran only about 3 times to prepare for this race he still beat his pregnant wife.

Kinda hard to see the belly, but I promise it's there and I promise it's not from too much pizza (although that was very tasty after a long run!) I thought I'd quit running for the rest of my pregnancy after this race but now I'm wondering, what's next?