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driving NEVER...!!! I thought we chose the sex just like The Beckhams....??

Tired today - did 4 mile recovery run last night. I think according to RW plan it's a 6 mile steady run with faster end. Now is "steady" a medium pace then....?

Can I ask how all you ladies eat before a long run - do you eat more carbs the night before etc?

We had "There's a House Inside my Mummy" too - DD loved it. I can't help but squirm every time I read the line "But the door is rather tight" though!

I think I am succumbing to the post-race cold virus today - I was expecting this as I am one of those people who always gets a cold on the first day of my holiday. I have also had dreadful indigestion since the race - is this common?

My mum asked me if I was planning a full marathon next (she used to be a runner herself but never did longer than a half) AND I got a text from the race organisers saying they are doing a full marathon too next year. Is this a sign??

Driving those varicose veins have put me off my breakfast! (good luck for the scan)

our age gap will be 2 years and 10 months - there are a million reasons why...but I am happy with it actually, think it sounds pretty good

Can also recommend 'there's a house inside my mummy'. DD1 loved it (still does actually). What's your age gap going to be peach ? I have a feeling your dd (1!) is 3 so probably similar to mine ... just a few weeks over 4 years. Whilst its much larger than we planned its worked very well. They adore each other (when they're not hitting each other).

Have been doing battle with my new ipod this evening and eventually won. No more sharing an ipod with dh so no more bob dylan - yippee !!

Well done cherry! I would go for the sprint at Blenheim as the supersprint is really too short to do any of the distances justice. I think it took me about an hour and 25 when I did it a few years back do you aren't actually going for that long doing the sprint distance. It isn't cheap so you may as well get your money's worth!

you know you want to! Blenheim is a good one to start with. You could always try out some outdoor swimming beforehand, not sure where you are in the country (south maybe?), but Redricks Lake in Sawbridgeworth near Chelmsford is an outdoor swimming lake. I went there to get over swimming in a lake fear, and once I had managed to put my face under once, it was fine to b ehonest.

fanny I think it's the blokes wot decide about the boy/girl thing...

Debi bang goes my theory about runners having girls... .

Thanks everyone. I've heard of that book Moshi, I'll look into getting it. DD asked the other day where the baby would come out of me and I said it would come out of...."my bits!!". I don't know what posessed me. Bits, indeed.

Moshi So you have similar to me but a 6 year old too.. phew you must have your hands full. I have dd1 8, Dd2, 3 (4 soon) and DD3 2. You've 3 girls as well - I always say I run because it's the only valid excuse I get to be out the house for a couple of hours!! Older they get the longer my runs become.... . Wouldn't change it for the world though - we'll never be lonely hey?? My pelvic floor is better after Dd3 than it was after Dd2 for some strange reason. All natural births too. However if I
Skip I do need to wear Tena Ladies

Hi all,

I realised that I should have added myself into the race list for RFL yesterday, so have done so at the bottom of this post.

I was quite tired for the race as we went to the lake district last week and did big cycle rides, climbed the old man of coniston and went swimming in coniston water. Can I just warn you that if you are thinking the Windemere wheel cycle ride is an easy ride - it isn't!! Essentially moutain biking which was even more fun with a large toddler on the back of the bike.

The RFL was good overall. Hilly for the first 2km, then fairly easy going. A little bit of rain but that was fine. I am a bit disappointed in my time of 36 minutes, I had wanted to be closer to 30 minutes. Although some of it was due to the fact I found DP just before the finish line and he refused to hand me DS for a sprint over the line holding toddler aloft triathlon stylie finish! Perhaps he thought I'd drop him ...

I just really enjoyed it and it is also very humbling reading everyone's signs on their back about loved ones.

I've entered a 10k for October and added this in below, so am looking to you lot to get me through! Also trying to decide which distance at the Blenheim triathlon to do next year. Sprint - more challenging field. Supersprint - shorter distance, more laid back and more likely to be able to talk some friends into doing it.

Sounds like everyone is running well, and congratulations to the ladies who had/are having scans x

06/07/11- Yately 10k: DebiTheScot
10/07/11 - RFL 5K, Kingston & Kempton Park: Wheelybug
10/07/11 - Felsted 10K: bonkers20
16/07/11 - Phoenix park 5 miler - drivingmisscrazy
17/07/11 - RFL St Albans - Pawsnclaws
17/07/11 - RFL St Albans - WishIwasCherryMenlove
17/07/11 - Dundee Half marathon - TheChewyToffeeMum
17/07/11- Chichester (Sprint) Triathlon: DebiTheScot
24/07/11 - Harrogate town centre 10k - DrNortherner
20/08/11 - Frank Duffy 10 mile, Dublin - drivingmisscrazy
03/09/11 - Dingle Half-Marathon - drivingmisscrazy
11/09/11 - Bristol Half- Marathon - thetasigmamum
11/09/11 - Bristol Half- Marathon- N4nny
18/09/11 - GNR: Hamster, Run for fun, popsycal, LaLa
23/09/11 - Notting Half Marathon: cestlavie
25/09/11 - Edinburgh Urbanathlon: backwardpossom
25/09/11 - Windsor Half Marathon: Doyouthinktheysaurus
25/09/11 - London Half Marathon Run to the beat: June2009
25/09/11 - New Forest Half Marathon: MoshiMoshi
02/10/11 - Standalone 10K: Futurity
02/10/11 - Bradford Half Marathon - MrsWednesday
02/10/11 - Baxter's River Ness 10k - backwardpossom
02/10/11 - The Run, Northampton - YeahThatsTheBadger
09/10/11 - Great Eastern Run, Peterborough - Futurity
09/10/11 - Herts 10k - WishIwasCherryMenlove
16/10/11 - Abingdon Marathon: MoshiMoshi
30/10/11 - Great South Run: Wheely, squix
20/11/11 - Leeds Abbey Dash (10k) - DrNortherner
19/02/12 - Brighton Half marathon - Wheely
27/05/12 - London Bupa 10K - Futurity

fanny - DS is 8, DD1 is 6, DD2 is 4 and DD3 is 2. No twins so four pregnancies. And four natural deliveries (eek for my pelvic floor!)

Moshi hope you don't mind me asking - how old are your DC?

Glad all's well peach, and hurray! though that sounds a really alarming ten minutes, and good luck for your scan on Wednesday too, driving. I'd be nervous too - all scans make me nervous - but I hope you get only good news.

My first dating scan with my younger daughter, the sonographer was ominously silent and so was my husband. Just as I had been with my elder daughter, I was convinced something was wrong. I couldn't see her screen from my position and was only aware of my husband squeezing my hand. After what felt like hours of staring through the gloom at the ceiling but was possibly less than a minute, I eventually managed to whisper, through tears, "is there anything there at all?"...turns out she could, thank god, see the beginnings of my little girl - she just wasn't the chatty type.

Driving and peach - if you don't already have it try to buy the book, "There's A House Inside My Mummy". It was the only book about a baby on the way that I didn't mind reading over and over (and over!) again. It was great for my DS who was nearly 2 when DD1 arrived.

driving - That leg was seriously grooooosssssss!

Congratulations peach!! Seems to be the year of the girls or maybe runners tend to have daughters rather than sons....

driving Your DD1 will be delighted with her little sister and fingers crossed all well with scan - I'm sure it will be. My DD2 and DD3 are inseparable (there's only 16 months between them though ) - I took some lovely photos of them today in the woods, must update my profile on here, they are so old now in comparison.

it is - I'm sure if nothing has ever gone wrong you don't have this sense of dread about it though. It's at lunchtime, but they are always busy so it could be any time (I now know this is because they are doing emergency scans and cvs/amnios at the same time, so am more understanding than I might otherwise have been)

Awww your DD sounds so sweet Driving. my DD was so pleased as she wanted a girl. Hope all goes well for you guys on Wednesday, very stressful this baby business eh? What time is your scan?

Arrrgghhh Driving!!! Disclaimer first please!!!!

peach have been fretting vaguely about you today so delighted to hear all is well. And a sister - fabulous! DD is just starting to get her head around the sister idea and keeps asking us where her sister is. When told 'in mummy's tummy' she asked if DP had eaten her! (nothing if not logical, my daughter). But keeps asking and giving DP bits of food 'for my little sister'. It's very cute. DD2 is very lucky to have such a wonderful big sister waiting for her.

Hoping all will be OK with our scan Weds - am getting nervous about heart defects because of the slightly increased nuchal etc etc.

All fine at scan, though terrifying 10 minutes when sonographer went very quiet looking at heart and then asked for consultant. Felt sure it was bad news but then baby moved and she got the measurements she needed without the consultant. Phew! And we are having another girl!!!!! Delighted and very excited!

20 miles on the treadmil Moshi, that's intense!

moshi you surely don't mean toned legs like this - look at number 12?

driving - what are the recoveries in between those intervals? They are quite high end - presumably you have built up to those ones before doing them, ie 2 X steady, 2X tempo, 2 X MRP? That way you have the confidence you can ramp up the speed a little more having done the session before at a marginally slower pace.