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I ran through most of my pregnancy but 3rd trimester was closer to walking with a few jogs thrown in there. I started jogging again about 3 weeks after LO was born and I felt like I was running at 8 months pregnant. It felt like pregnancy in reverse but quicker. I wouldn't expect that you'd be back in tip top running form in September but as long as everything goes well you'll probably be able to do the race no problem.

@Lindsay05: Ahh, i was the same.

I was an avid runner (half marathons and 1 marathon) before i got pregnant, and continued to run but at a lower weekly mileage (15-20k per week) while i was pregnant. Unfortunately i stopped at 8 weeks because it got waaay too hot in my city and i was having major pelvic pain.

I had an episiotomy and major pelvic floor prolapse. Walking for more than an hour had me leak pee! I had to go through physio and didn't get the okay to start running until 3 months after having the baby. I ran my first 5k 5 months post-partum, but i did it under 30 minutes.

I don't think i'll be at the speed i was before i got pregnant, but i'm hoping to at least run a half marathon before i have my next baby.

Also think about whether or not you will be breastfeeding. For example, if you used to get up early and run and want to do that before LO wakes, you will need to pump first. Do you have someone that will be able to watch your LO when you go run? My husband worked long hours and I would often want to go to bed not long after he got home. Many people go to sleep really early, knowing they will be up a few times in the middle of the night? I ran a fair amount prior to getting pregnant and continued doing about 12 miles a week until week 20 when it was just too hot here. I had a c section, so I believe I wasn't cleared for exercise until 8 weeks PP. I could not have run a 10k 3 months PP. That said, everyone is different and I think it would be good to have a goal to work toward!

I wouldn't, personally. You're not likely to be rested enough, first. You'll likely have lost much of your endurance, and that's way too soon to have it back. I think that the extent to which pregnancy and the newborn stage knocks you out can be really hard to imagine before you've done it - but it is huge. My baby actually STTN at 7 weeks, and I know that at 3 months I still wouldn't have been anywhere near my old self.

Also, consider the time factor. My baby was born almost two weeks late, and she spent a week in the hospital after that. So almost a month after her due date, she'd barely been home a week. I was certainly not trying to exercise in those first few weeks.

If the registration isn't much, or if you can transfer it if need be, I'd say go for it. But I'd have hated to be financially committed to something big at that point.