Look What My Fiancee Can Do! (Read 2192 times)

Ooh, that would be fun! Any specific size or format requirements? Color (I assume to match the rest of the site), font...? k

Let me see what I can come up with... k

For the record ... my honey ran a 29:10 5-K on Thanksgiving. That's a - wait for it - almost TEN MINUTE improvement over her Memorial Day 5-K. 10 minutes in under 6 months.

Wow. That's an amazing improvement! Congrats to her!

I'm resurrecting this thread because, well, I want to. The girl now weighs 114 pounds. She lost almost 50 pounds. The people at Weight Watchers are trying to hire her to work for them. No, I'm not kidding. At this very moment, while I'm sitting her nursing my battle wounds, she's out running a 7-miler in the heat. When I started this thread, we couldn't run together. She had to walk every few minutes, and her pace was painfully slow. Now we run together every Sunday, and although its still a slow pace - it's not all that slow. A good easy pace for me. On our last run, she maintained close to 10:00 pace. The best part? She told me I was holding her back. And I was. I was tapering, you see, so my pace was a bit too slow for her. Cool, huh? She's run one 8-miler with me, in Percy Warner park, where there are no easy miles. We started at the Stone Gate entrance and ran right up that hill that still gives me nightmares. And she still doesn't call herself a runner. I peeked at her running log. It's on paper and written with a pen, if you can believe it. How old school of her. Very low tech. But I realized she's easily averaging well over 20 miles per week. She'd be well up in the rankings of the 1000 mile club. Not too shabby. Just wanted to share. She's an inspiration. And as I just said elsewhere, she's proof that consistent, steady, patient training - works. All new runners, all those frustrated with their progress, need to know it. With time, and consistency, it works miraculously well. You can all do it, with time and determination.

I peeked at her running log. It's on paper and written with a pen, if you can believe it. How old school of her. Very low tech. But I realized she's easily averaging well over 20 miles per week. She'd be well up in the rankings of the 1000 mile club. Not too shabby. Just wanted to share. She's an inspiration. And as I just said elsewhere, she's proof that consistent, steady, patient training - works. All new runners, all those frustrated with their progress, need to know it. With time, and consistency, it works miraculously well. You can all do it, with time and determination.

Wow, no wonder you are proud of her--she deserves it! Now she just needs to start logging her runs here, too! k

Hey that's really cool Jake! Not to change the subject but, where have you bloody been? It's 12:38, way past your curfew and I've been waiting up. It's been dusty in the corners without you to shake us all up! Claire xxx

Hey that's really cool Jake! Not to change the subject but, where have you bloody been?

Managing my Internet addiction by replacing it with my running addiction. It seemed to work well. And causing trouble in other dark dusty corners of the universe. I'll be around. How's your body holding up? I know you're running again - how's it going?