My team at work decided a few months back to do this corporate 5k. I was waiting to start my training until we found out the result of the last cycle. Getting my period last month was my "green" light to start running! Since I don't have much control over this baby making thing, it has been nice to have something I can control - like training for a 5K. :) I'm proud of myself for getting out there and running a couple times each week. And proud that I logged about 30 miles before the race from Aug 12th until Sept 11th.
The corporate 5k was tonight in Atlanta and it was really fun! My friend (J-Lo) ran with me - even though she's a much faster runner than me. There were so many people doing the race - we were dodging people and bobbing/weaving for the first 1.5 miles. There were 4 hills in the race - the first two weren't bad. But the 3rd one slowed me down. I just kept pushing through & having J-Lo in front helped. (Fyi - my neighborhood is much flatter than Atlanta.) The race ended with the 4th hill as we ran over the bridge towards the Olympic rings. I think my strong "kick" had a lot to do with those rings. We finished in a little over 32 minutes - so I was proud of keeping it close to a 10 minute mile pace. Our manager also ran the race - he kept up with us for the first half, but the hills got him as well. A great team-building activity!!
My next goal is to finish a 5K in under 30 minutes. I've only done that once before and I think it was a couple years ago. Wish me luck!!
My husband and I got married in 2005 and tried to start our family back in January 2008. We started our 1st round of in-vitro in December 2010 - which is when this blog was started. Despite a near perfect cycle, it resulted in a negative pregnancy test in February 2011. We were fortunate to get 6 extra embryos from that cycle that were frozen. In March 2011 we started a Frozen Embryo Transfer cycle. Despite another great cycle (on paper), all 6 of our frozen embryos had to be thawed to get 2 good ones for transfer - which failed to result in a pregnancy. In 2012, we took the first half of the year off and then tried a couple rounds of IUI with and without fertility shots - still no baby. In 2013, we did our 2nd round of in-vitro with my sister offering to be our gestational carrier. We ended up transferring 2 embryos into each of us and were blessed to welcome 4 babies in October 2013.