catherine's running efforts

I pulled out the belly band, and it fits now. Yay. So I tried running a really slow mile to see if I got any tightness. I don't think so, but the band was on kind of tightly. It's kind of like the question of whether I feel any pressure. I don't know what's pressure and what's needing to go to the bathroom. Or what's crampy from gas and what's crampy not from gas. It's all very confusing. 

It felt good to do the mile. I really like running. The Bachelor was pretty good, too.

Long day, even though I didn't go to work. I cried for a lot of the trip to Salt Lake for our 20-week ultrasound because of some story on the radio about a man who killed a puppy, and then I cried for most of the trip back to American Fork (fun day for Eric) after our afternoon appointment because I can't decide if we should keep going to our OB or switch to a midwife (more emotional support and still at the hospital with doctor backup, but what if something crazy happens?). 

After I finished teaching my online class I was pretty tired, and I'm probably coming down with a cold, so I thought I'd be completely justified in skipping the gym and just going to bed. But then I thought that I'd probably be happier in the long run if I just went. And maybe it's lame, but seeing that Biggest Loser would still be on was kind of the deciding factor.

About 40 minutes walking up a fake hill, then the quad and hamstring machines. I don't care about my arms. They're dead to me.

And we're having a girl. She's fine so far. I might have some arrhythmia. We're thinking of naming her Elliot, but we're still open to suggestions. 

P.S. I'm *totally* 117 and not 123 like the doctor's office scale said.

I stayed home from work today and slept in so that I could maybe get over the cold faster. I don't know if it worked, but I'm less tired and I didn't cry at all today. But I had to go to Salt Lake anyway to get the holter monitor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holter_monitor) to follow up on yesterday's arrhythmia thing. Also to get Eric's birthday present (his birthday's on Friday). 

I was feeling a lot better by the evening (moved from the sore throat stage to the runny nose stage), so I did about 40 minutes on the treadmill walking at various inclines and speeds. I got an oreo milkshake on the way home because of Allie.

Spent some time on the elliptical and treadmill in between work and the dinner for Eric's birthday. Happy birthday, Eric!

My swimmer brother (he's 9th in the state in his event) came to the rec center (they *do* have an indoor track!) in AF to give me a little swimming lesson. When I was in the locker room about to go out to the pool a cardiologist from the hospital called and said that the results from the holter test (a 24-hour EKG) had been really abnormal, and she asked me all sorts of questions like had I ever fainted and did anyone in my family ever die suddenly. I'm supposed to go to an ER if I get light-headed or dizzy or if I faint, and exercise may or may not still be okay. It was kind of weird and scary. Mostly I wish I hadn't gotten the phone call when I was out and about in my swim suit so that I could have taken notes or something, because really I have no idea what she was saying except that there's some medicine that they'd prescribe except that I'm pregnant. 

I figured that nothing about me changed just because of the phone call, so I went out for the little swimming lesson (I told my brother, though, so that he could pull me out if it looked like I was dying or something). I learned that my arms should go down instead of out, I'm supposed to roll my hips as I go, half of my water-side goggle should be underwater when I turn my head to breathe, and I should make 16 arm strokes per length when I'm in the pool at Gold's. Then my brother was showing me the difference between what I do and what I *should* do, and one of the lifeguard people came over and told us we had to get out because some kid had pooped in the pool. So we went home. Short lesson, but we got reimbursement passes and I feel like I learned a lot.

Later we stopped by to see Lily and pass on Bonnie's waterproof mp3 player case. (See picture. She has one that includes Eric.) It was fun to meet her and get to know her better. I hope she's able to run again soon!