LISTENING TO YOUR BODY
Anna McNuff’s body has travelled the globe, scaled peaks and felt lows. And now pregnancy is a whole new world to be discovered
WHO IS ANNA?
Anna is an adventurer, motivational speaker, influencer and author, who gets her kicks by travelling the world on long, human-powered journeys, and in sharing those journeys with others
I’m up the duff . Preg-a-roo. There’s a McBun in my oven. Which means that, aside from endless consumption of pickled onions and family size blocks of cheddar, my relationship with my body has taken a whole new turn. A turn that’s led me to reflect on how well I’ve listened to it over the past decade of running.
I always thought I’d be one of those women who cruised through pregnancy. Surely the process of growing a mini-me wouldn’t aff ect my weekly runs, especially not when that mini-me is the size of a sesame seed or a blueberry. How much could that possibly matter? Newsflash – a lot. For the first three months, my runs were dreadful. My legs were leaden, I was wheezing like a geriatric smoker up the smallest incline and I couldn’t let my mind roam freely. ‘So this is what it must be like to not enjoy running’ I thought. I felt like I had never run a step in my life.
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