Add me as a friend. 44 about to run another 5-k !

um...I just want to go get on my toga and do an animal house scene? (sorry if it is just me?) :smokin:

eh, I'm not here to actually lose weight, but I support those that do. (and I have lost some, not intentionally) ..just trying to overcome some medical issues (due to irregular eating and eating BS crap) due to the lifestyle and work/stress environment...and I have some medical issues that keep me from doing impact exercises...

just attempting to keep the jiggly bits from becoming the wobbly bits as I get older?

And I don't run, beyond me at this point, but I do body weight exercises and a lot of yoga (don't normally log it since it is a negligible burn for me) and the only thing I MIGHT run after is a beer truck...or from zombies...

flowerforyou:

Good luck on your goals. I know you'll get there!

Personally I used to be a competitive runner (was running 5k's in 15:45), but then ended up with real bad arthritis in my feet. Was just to painful to run. Ended up having double foot surgery 3 years ago, and hadn't run since. I started back up again (motivation from my son, who also is a really into running) just two months ago. After 3 years off I literally could not jog two miles without walking half of it. And the jogging part was NO faster than my walking part, but it did it anyways to try and condition my body to be ready to run again.

Well that was only 6-8 weeks and yesterday I ran 60 minutes without a break or walk, and then another 40 today. I have a goal to get my times back down to a sub 6 minute mile and my 5k to sub 20 minutes. It's still A LOT of work to do what I did the last two days, but I still love running, and am determined to reach the above mentioned goals. I know that they are not where I used to be, but I feel that they are realistic for where my body is right now, and I'll be happy just to have gone from the couch to those kind of times after 3 years of pain and not running. And like I said, my feet still bother me. They'll always have arthritis, but actually they are better running then when I'm just sitting around. Painful or not the running seems to keep them feeling better than when I'm not using them.

So the exercise and running has really been a gift.

BTW: Just for the sake of disclosing some other goals I am striving to get down to 155 lbs with 10% body fat. At the beginning of September I was at 172 lbs and 32% BF. 6-8 weeks later with a much better diet and exercise routine I'm currently at 162 lbs and 24% BF. So there's still work to do, but even those numbers have made the running easier.