Find Love in Fitness

Here I am at the 6 month mark of being pregnant! Hard to believe in 3 months we will be meeting Baby Jaworski (name still being decided.) The last 6 months have been amazing and challenging. The fact that my body is able to grow a human being blows my mind, but I absolutely love it. I am happy to say I have continued to work out daily since day 1 of being pregnant. Has it been easy? No! Has it been worth it? Absolutely... so far! So, what has been so hard about working out while being pregnant? It is NOT the fact that I am carrying 15 extra pounds around. Although it is challenging and eye opening that everything is harder when you are bigger. It is NOT the fact that my body is working overtime to grow this little girl. In fact, this is fascinating to me and only makes me want to continue to workout so my body can be healthy enough to help grow this baby and result in an easier delivery and recovery. It is NOT that I am so tired some days because I wake up every...

Happy Monday! I am very happy to be saying that I accomplished my goal of completing the Mini Marathon on Saturday. You see, I have been doing the Mini for the past 10+ years. It always falls on my birthday weekend so it has been one of my favorite weekends for a long time! A little different scenario this year- I have a 5.5 month old baby girl growing inside of me! Here is my story on how I completed 13.1 miles while pregnant. October 2014: Me, Jake and my parents sign up for the Mini Marathon in May.  December 2014: Jake and I find out baby Jaworski will be here in August. We tell our families. My parents ask about the Mini Marathon and I say without hesitation "I am still doing it."   January-March 2015: I start to follow a beginners training plan (Hal Higdon) knowing that I just cannot push it. First few weeks of training were miserable being in my first trimester. I felt like I was running with the flu every time. I continued to take it easy unt...