10k (1hr 36min 48 sec)

There we go. Taken from the Great Run Results site, you can head over & check up on me if you like!

I took it quite easy & must admit found it quite hard to not to jog much more than the 1st kilometre. I didn't quite manage to get the 1 hour 26 I was aiming for, I put this down to 2 reasons;

1. I needed a wee for the whole 1st 5k, but couldn't see any place to do one, and I wasn't about to wee on the road side bushes, or test the theory that Police men have to let pregnant ladies wee in their hats. Then when I did get to one, just out side Old Trafford, there were queues, so I wasted time there.
2. I just couldn't get my walking pace quick enough without breaking into a full on jog, which the Mid wives told me not to do. I just couldn't seem to get to those KM markers quick enough. 

But still I was 10 min behind target, and thoroughly enjoyed ever moment of the 10k. Perhaps I was a little dissapointed that there were no jelly babbies at the Bupa Boost point around the 8.5km mark. But the cheer & the shout out I got as I crossed the finish line made up for it!

.I am proud to say that I beat both the Monkey & the Lion running near meat the start, but the Giraffe started a  little ahead of me & I just couldn't catch him, must have been those long legs.

I don't have any pictures yet, but as soon as I do I'll get some copies up on the blog.

The Donations website is open another 3 months, so you still have time to head over.

Many Many thanks to the people who have already donated & pledged money. You lovely lovely people...

Kate & Nigel
Lewis Jenko
Stew B
Neil, Vanessa & Catherine @ Fast & Fresh
Daddy & Lily
Lelia, George, Michael & Helen

The Morning Sickness of the Long Distance Runner

The story I've been squeeing about is on page 3 of the Lancashire Evening Post today. The story covers  a full page.

I'm quite amazed at how much attention the fact that I'm running & pregnant has generated to tell truth. I'm sure other mums with 2 or 3 kids have to run around just as much, if not more, as me, only not as officially as I am.

Well it was fun to do the interview & the photos, even if I think I look a bit weird in them.

The link  to the LEP full story is below, please don't forget the whole point of the story was really to help me raise more pennies for Heart Research UK, just let me know if you want to pledge, I'll add you to the running total (PUN!)

The Morning Sickness of the Long Distance Runner

Is it a Boy or a Girl?

20 week scan
Originally uploaded by millie.lavelle
Go can you tell?

This is the bump that will waddle around the course with me this weekend,

during the scan we asked the ultrasound lady to see if she could tell.
She had a quick look & is 75% certain...

Highlight to reveal  
***          BOY!!       ***

where you right?

10km (43 min)

YEAH RIGHT!!!

That's the time that Paula Radcliffe did her 10km when 6 months pregnant in 2006!
I doubt I'll pull a time like that out the bag, but it's food for thought. I'm not & never have been as fit as she was & will most definitely be Jogging & walking the route next week, I think I'm going to aim for a target time of double Paula's

so there we have it target time of

1hour & 26 mins!

To hit that I'm going to need a pace of 8:36 through out, so I think I'll have a ferret about for the Nike+ gizmo & see if I can waddle around abit and handle the speed!

(i've been casually mooching about at pace of around 11+ So stand by for a swift retraction!

oh and have I mentioned that you can sponsor me?? (hint hint)

6km (1hr :07 min)

You know I think I've lost my Nike+ gizmo, so the distance was worked out with Google map & the time was done via the timer on my phone. Yeah Dead accurate I know, but I'm on a tight schedule here I just need to move my bottom & get these KM done so I've got time to not be red faced & huffy when I get to nursery. Well, less huffy & red.

took me just over an hour to Jog / walk around the 6k, giving a pace of around 11 min. Not going to put me at the start of the pack is it?!

So it's quite weird doing all running & stuff when you don't quite balance the way you thin you should! and I'll admit I'm much slower than I could go,but then if I'm out of breath then Jelly bean is out of breath & I really don't want that to happen.

Yes it feels a bit gutting to have flogged myself & made myself do all that horrid running in the wet & cold november / december only to think I'm just going to waddle the whole way around.

Right off to get the 1st born from her day of destruction & chaos at nursery!

Are you ready to rumble?!?!

Well no not really, I never was a great fan of those 2 geordies, but I couldn't think of a cool thing to write as the title.

So with the run being in 4 weeks time the Great Run people send out emails to suggesting that now is the time to find out & test if you're fit enough to take part...

Err probably is my reply! They suggest that if you cannot comfortably run 6k by now & feel like you could still keep going at the end then, you might not be quite fit enough to do the full 10k on the big day... sensible stuff really, no one wants lots of lazy bones filling up the street and causing further obstacles for the other runners!

well, I'm knackered after this weekend, with just me & my daughter at home yesterday & a full shift today in the new shop, so I'm going to skive till Tuesday & see what time I can waddle around in then. Honest.

Stuff you knew already...

Dating scan
So it's been over a month since I've posted anything here...

Rest assured I haven't given up on the whole running thing, although it's starting to get a whole lot slower!

So in the week I was registering for the Great Manchester Run, I was also about 2 weeks into growing my 2nd baby.

So since the last post in Feb, there's been all kinds of life changing drama, well no, but it's a blog, drama sounds better than the reality.

I'm still doing the run, in oooh look 26 days (yikes), but the midwives & doctors said I could take it slowly, VERY slowly, and all will be fine.

I must admit that my running is more of a slow jog or fast walk, at the moment, and well, it's only going to get slower, but hey, speed isn't the point, it's the gettign up off my lardy bottom & moving.

So yeah! Double Yeah! With added Yikes, for the fast arriving dates!
(16th May - Run & 24th Sept due date)