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De-slacking in progress
started running @ age 48 [lost 70#+, quit a 30 year pack/day habit>> ran HM] Ran a few years then quit. Gained 70#+ back and smoking like before. Time to get healthy again @ 52 years over with the C25K program and beyond again. RE-start date 1-13-14
John
John www.wickedrunningclub.com
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rectumdamnnearkilledem
Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to
remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
~ Sarah Kay
Slaptear, I LOVE your avatar! That 5k course looks nice...some good little hills in there. Hope the race is really fun. My first 5k got me well and truly HOOKED! I took a look at your log--are you running all your runs hard, as tempo would suggest? I hope you are doing some easy runs, too. Running all workouts at a hard pace is a good recipe for injury--ask a few of the folks who have been sidelined with stress fractures about that. You will be better able to increase your miles and enjoy the quality of your runs if most of them are at "conversational pace." Save running hard for your race.
Queen of 3rd Place
Ex runner
Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. (Heb. 12:1b) Mile by Mile
Welcome Gollum, I mean Smeagal, I mean Slaptear (Slaptear??) We loves all of you. You'll like it here, and the ability to share logs is really great for us newbies, the more experienced folks are super-helpful with checking your log and figuring out what you're doing right or wrong. And man...that's some impressive weight loss! Cheers to you! Have fun on that first 5K and try to take it easy. I threw up during my first race. Oh, and the second, third, fifth - yeah I'm a slow learner...don't be dumb like me Arla