Running in Pregnancy

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Did anyone else continue running in pregnancy? If so when did you stop? Did you slow down? How much running were you doing before pregnancy?

I did with my daughter, ran right up until the week she was born & also have in this pregnancy. Currently 7.5 months pregnant and still running, I’m certainly not beating any PB’s, but still running and no plans to stop. Totally depends how you feel though.

I was advised to stop at around 4 months pregnant due to my heart rate because it was going above 170 even at much slower speeds. This was despite me being a fairly regular runner (15-20 miles a week) before pregnancy. I took up cycling until I could no longer sit comfortably on the bike due to bump. I’m 8.5 months now and just walking when I can.

A lot of my friends have managed to run almost all the way through, I think I’ve just been unlucky. Looking forward to getting back to it when I feel ready postpartum.

I was running 5k 3 times a week before pregnancy. Had plans to continue but gave up in week 5 due to extreme nausea and fatigue. I now get out of breath climbing the stairs. Hoping I’ll be able to ease back into it once symptoms hopefully ease in the second trimester.

Any exercise you can do during pregnancy is going to be beneficial!

I ran all the way through with my DD and even did parkrun on her due date (waters broke the next day!) The look on a marshals face when she I asked how far along I was, and I said due today, was priceless.

Before pregnancy, I was doing about 20 miles a week. That naturally dropped right down, as did my speed over the pregnancy, and I often had to walk stretches but still probably kept up about 8 miles until 7 months. The last 2 were purely parkruns.

Honestly, it's what feels comfortable to you, so long as you aren't medically advised otherwise.

ETA: I had pretty bad morning sickness from weeks 7-18 but found running a good distraction from that

Was running half marathons before I got pregnant, carried on running for a year fair bit but by 5-6 months I found my cardiac output just wouldn’t go up - I would try to run faster but it was like my “accelerator” wasn’t working!

i was running slower than my walking speed and thought I might as well just switch to walking and swimming and avoid all the bouncing. It also took me a while to get back into it afterwards - had a c-section and couldn’t run until about 3-4 months post-partum as my core was completely wrecked.

I ran up until 25 weeks, was intending to run up until my due date, but had a bleed and was told no more running, so spent the rest of the pregnancy doing a lot of walking. Lots of people so though, you'll naturally run slower the bigger you get, but still nice to get out.