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How much extra weight have you had while being a runner?

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  • chris_in_cal
    chris_in_cal Posts: 2,568 Member
    pansamanchada wrote: »
    So my question for you is How much extra weight have you had while being a runner?


    Anyone still on this thread? I have two complimentary simultaneous goals.

    Lose 100 lbs
    Run a BQ (then actually run Boston)

    I dreamed of my "race weight" to BQ and looked at the scale and it was exactly +100 and thus my two pronged plan began.

    Losing the 100lbs has precedence of course, (read:food, MFP, consistancy, etc.) Running is a tool, to lose the 100 and keep connected and motivated to stick with the plan.

    So to run a BQ my strategy is: don't get injured, lose 100 lbs, stay motivated and carefully work toward Boston.

    To start: I set MFP to 2 lbs/week and stick with that. I joined a month long walking challenge (dropped about 8 lbs) then a 8 week C25K thing (16 lbs (24 total)), I am just finishing a 16 week "Garmin Coach" 10k plan, the race is tomorrow. (32 lbs (56 lbs total)).

    From here, after a vacation a 15 week Garmin Coach 1/2 plan which should get me to about 80 lbs total loss by end of January 2020. With the goal have having lost the 100 lbs by next Memorial Day, May 2020.

    BQ race weight Memorial Day 2020.

    There is a 1/2 and full marathon on Memorial Day, this next one I will run the Half Marathon at my race weight.

    Thus starts the BQ portion. For a solid year I will maintain the 100 lbs loss, staying at my race weight, and I will train and ultimately attempt to run hard and fast in anticipation of my Memorial Day 2021 assault on the BQ.

    March 2022...see you in Boston. 😁

  • TheMrWobbly
    TheMrWobbly Posts: 2,541 Member
    When I started running the Couch to 5k programme in May '19 I was almost 90 lbs over 'healthy' weight. 4 months later I ran my first 5k in 30 years, another month a 10k, and in month 6 my first ever half-marathon by which time I had shed 50 of those excess lbs.

    My view is that I can put my joints under strain being significantly overweight or I can put them under strain running and being at a healthier weight so i choose the latter option.
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