Was she planning to run it 3 weeks after having a baby?!
What do you mean? 40 weeks is typical.
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Oct 10, 2011 5:23:46 pm PDT #1178 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
shrift - Oct 10, 2011 5:25:11 pm PDT #1179 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I've flown with Matilda twice, and both times she had to take her shoes off.
Sorry, I meant that the "you get to keep your shoes on!" TSA news was only going to apply to kids, although I have no idea when they'll actually instate that in the screen process.
Edit: I should also add that when I went through security in London on the way back to the U.S., they didn't make me take off my shoes. I was unreasonably thrilled at the time.
bon bon - Oct 10, 2011 5:25:33 pm PDT #1180 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Oh, I didn't know that. eta: I didn't think about the difference between 4 weeks and a month.
le nubian - Oct 10, 2011 5:27:55 pm PDT #1181 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
bon bon, you do have a point though. She had to know (she already had one kid) that at 39 weeks, she could pop at any second.
Jesse - Oct 10, 2011 5:28:37 pm PDT #1182 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It still seems fairly nuts to do to a body that's already got a lot going on, though.
sarameg - Oct 10, 2011 5:29:46 pm PDT #1183 of 30001
Family friend did a similar thing. She was running the whole pregnancy, actually did a 50 miler at 6 weeks before she realized she was pregnant. She really took to being pregnant, in the sense of pretty much no side effects other than the obvious. She did not give birth until 2 days after the marathon. But she beat my dad's time, which he found amusing , if unencouraging.
shrift - Oct 10, 2011 5:29:55 pm PDT #1184 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
9 months is a lie!
lisah - Oct 10, 2011 5:33:59 pm PDT #1185 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
I should also add that when I went through security in London on the way back to the U.S., they didn't make me take off my shoes.
Yeah, not in Ireland this summer either.
It still seems fairly nuts to do to a body that's already got a lot going on, though.
She did supposedly check with her doctor and she ran intervals. And probably had trained a bunch for it.
My best friend did 140 miles on a bike 6 weeks after giving birth to her twins by cesarean, though, so possibly I have unreasonable ideas about what can or should be done close to or shortly after having a kid.
sarameg - Oct 10, 2011 5:37:03 pm PDT #1186 of 30001
I defer to trusting the knocked-up athlete to know her limits.
lisah - Oct 10, 2011 5:37:06 pm PDT #1187 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
In unrelated news, I was at the wedding of friends this weekend and the bride is a sign language interpreter so there was lots of awesome sign language interactions happening. Including a 10-week old staring intently and smiling at one of his moms talking to him with her hands. And I learned how to sign "dumbass" and "vaginally-aged!"