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Loves the outdoors
One day I decided I wanted to become a runner, so I did.
os,
now that's what I'm talking about!! what a great post & great achievement!! you should be "very very very excited" and yes proper nutrition/eating habits is probably 80% of the equation.
I have hit a healthy BMI for the first time in 20 years 34kg lost (75lbs in US speak) and I feel very very very excited! I have running to thank, but not in the way most people think. The running is not what has made me lose weight, how much I eat is SO much more important for me to lose weight. However, the huge motivation I have for improving my running has made me never lose sight of my end goal for the first time A healthy me And strangely this time it's almost felt easy. Running is apparently where my mojo comes from ;-)
Awesome accomplishment!
Consistently Slow
Run until the trail runs out.
SCHEDULE 2016--
The pain that hurts the worse is the imagined pain. One of the most difficult arts of racing is learning to ignore the imagined pain and just live with the present pain (which is always bearable.) - Jeff
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I just completed my highest weekly total of 40.7 miles since I started logging my mileage.
The part that I'm proudest of was that not 1/10 of a mile was done indoors. The temps have been in the teens and low 20's with wind chills in the low single digits most times when I've ran and I still completed ALL 40.7 miles outside.
2014 Goals:
Stay healthy
Enjoy life
I just completed my highest weekly total of 40.7 miles since I started logging my mileage. The part that I'm proudest of was that not 1/10 of a mile was done indoors. The temps have been in the teens and low 20's with wind chills in the low single digits most times when I've ran and I still completed ALL 40.7 miles outside.
Congrats on being Hard Core.
Easily Amused
jake
I did my first HM yesterday. Took me 2:50 to finish, but considering that 5 months ago I was a confirmed couch potato, I'm pretty darn pleased.
Congratulations! Sounds like you enjoyed it. Keep at it. Now you have a time to shoot for on the next one.
Do you know the feeling I know? When your legs have disappeared, and there is only your heart, your lungs, and your eyes skimming disembodied through the air? - Jeff
The bad news is that I had to retract my 3:18 goal for today's supposed go-fast race at the Dallas White Rock Marathon because I was feeling really crappy.
The good news is that I started feeling better about M10, and got my shit together and ran.
1:48/1:43 split. 3:31. My fastest since May 2008.
an amazing likeness
Holy crap, that is some Speedy Lopez work right there. 5 min negative split ! Way to rock the casbah.
And...get to visit with Dad as well ? That's a good weekend's work.
mta: negative <> positive...sorry. Blame it on the beer...
Acceptable at a dance, invaluable in a shipwreck.
Negative split, buster.
And a 5 minute negative split is not really a good thing in and of itself. It either means that I sandbagged the first half (aka, could have run it faster) *or* in my case I had to shake off The Grim.
Yes, got to visit the folks too. My dad is snoring next to me right now!
Awesome - I also had a good (though much slower) day doing the White Rock Half - 2:02:17 - new PR by over 5 mins.
2017 Goals1) Run more than 231 miles2) Be ready for HM in the spring
my great victory was that I ran more miles than degrees. 16 mile with 6 miles at MP in 15F...wrhhh....that was cold and it took an once of stubbornness to do it.
and I ran this just because and not because my trainning said so...
"Champions are everywhere; all you need is to train them properly..." ~Arthur Lydiard
Menace to Sobriety
Daughters and I ran the half at Kiawah on Sat.
Dad: 1:56:40 only about 30 secs off PR
DD1: 2:06:40 (First ever half)
DD2: 2:30:10 (very little training or sleep for the last month (senior projects and exams) nothing longer than a 30 min run over the last month or so, and only a running 2-3 times/week.
Best thing was just hangin' out with the kids for the weekend.
Janie, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go f*** himself, and then I blackmailed him for almost sixty thousand dollars. Pass the asparagus.