These are just a few pictures from my camera (my future father-in-law has many more on the way!) But a little synopsis....
Going into this party I was expecting your typical backyard boil, very low key and not all that big of a deal (to be honest)....Was I ever blown away by our hosts and hostesses! The Saloom's have a group of friends the "Supper Club" who wanted to throw the party for us, and the location was in the backyard of one of the families. Walking in, the backyard and deck was spectacular. The tables were decked in the red table cloth theme with such cute lamps and accessories, and the pool even had floating floral arrangements. Shown in the 2nd picture was the sign in table that had adorable hats and aprons for us to wear for the night (my hat had a veil while Adam's had a black bow). Now to explain the first picture...This boat was set up near the back of the yard and every time a certain song played during the night we had to stop whatever we were doing and run to the boat and "paddle" ourselves around the pool! We were the entertainment (comedy!) for the night but it was such a unique and cute idea, I really loved it and would use it when planning a party!
Thank you so much to everyone who put in so much work, it was really perfect!
Now moving on to the title of this post....this is where my Mom is sitting reading this hoping and praying that the title means anything else than what she thinks it does, that I wouldn't actually write about something like that in a blog for the world to see. Sorry Mom.....
Its what it looks like....last night I began the great adventure of Birth Control. Dun Dun Dunnnnn....
This shouldn't normally be a huge deal. There are a lot of women out there on birth control, but ....not all of those women are trying to run at the elite level getting paid to perform.
I have tried to do my research, I really have but that darn Kara Goucher and Shalane Flanagan just aren't open enough on their contraceptive methods! I jest. This was really a hard topic to research there are not books about what birth control works best for the elite distance runner or the trials and errors of what others have done in this particular field. There is the common side effect of weight gain, which could be detrimental to my poor bones, or the shot which even causes a loss of bone density! And the added hormones which have been known to make a woman, well a little crazy, and i'm sure Adam can vouch for the fact I don't need any "extra crazy" on my current crazy level :) There was the IUD option, which the Dr. quickly opted away from...which left me with hmmmm...one option. The Pill.
I went with the Dr.'s recommendation of Lo Loestrin, which he assured me would 1) only have a weight gain of about 2 lbs (I figured I could live with that) and 2) would NOT make me crazy! (I was seriously asking everyone who came in my room if these were going to make me crazy, they probably thought it was too late for that! lol)
So far I did not wake up today with any abnormalities, though I wasn't expecting to....We shall see the effects that this will have in the upcoming months and how Lo Loestrin affects the training of a distance athlete.
Anyone have any running with birth control stories?
