Sunday, June 24, 2012

A long time gone...

I went running today for the first time in at least 3 months.  Running was the dividing line between the part of my life when I hated my body/myself and the past 7 years.  I most recently replaced running with yoga (mostly because I love yoga - but also for TTC reasons as described below) but man oh man did it feel good.

For the past 6 months, every time I thought about starting running I thought about what effect it would have on my ovaries.  Then I found out one of my favorite people got pregnant shortly after she ran her first 1/2 marathon and it got me thinking.  I'm tired of putting my freaking life on hold and I want to start running again.

Here is one of my favorite pics of myself - after I finished my first (and only) marathon

Part of me feels like I could do that again if I really wanted to.  It feels so good to think about something other than trying to get pregnant or my stupid job.  I think I'm going to try to go running again this week.


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  1. jAllenDecember 27, 2012 at 8:35 PM

    Congrats on finishing your marathon! As a distance runner (I've only done the half distance) one of the best comments someone told me is that [procreation] is a marathon for us [the infertiles] and a sprint for others [the myrtles]. I like to point out that while sprinters get all the attention, everyone is more impressed with the distance runners!

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    1. RunDreamerSeptember 1, 2013 at 5:44 PM

      Congrats, Andy, on your marathon! And to the commenter above, as a marathoner and infertile myself, I draw so much inspiration out of your words :) Thank you!

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