InnerTeub

1. I am feeling more energetic. Apparently, as Susie mentioned in the comments, recovery time is now a Thing I need to pay attention to. And while climbing the Incline was fun and rewarding it also knocked me out for about a week. Ok! Noted! 

2. Erin commented on the last post that she is – from the vantage point of the first trimester – amazed at my activity level. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ERIN, you’re great, but no. The first trimester is a time for sleeping and feeling terrible and letting days and weeks go by with no activity if you need to. Second trimester is where it is AT for pregnant working out. I do remember working out in the first tri but it was always unscheduled, at the whim of how I was feeling (early AM workouts were seemed non existent for a few weeks because of the unisom), and just… I just did what I could, when I could. It was far from impressive, but I felt so terrible I don’t remember caring much. (“Much” is a really key phrase, there.) Somewhere around week 12 or 13 I started to really feel more like myself and get back into it, which was a much needed boost to my mood and took me from “How on earth do people stay pregnant for almost an entire YEAR feeling like this and OMG this will be an only child, FOR REAL” to “Oh! This isn’t that bad! Actually it’s kind of even ok! Neat! Babies for everyone!”

You’ll be fine, is what I’m saying. Go take a nap and wake up when you’ve hit your second trimester. It will be better. And, for what it’s worth, I had been worried that my relative inactivity in the first trimester would mean it would be harder to get back into in the second trimester; I didn’t notice this to be the case, happily. You’ll be ok. Sleep. It’s fine. This feeling is temporary.