Just ran my first 10k run

cheers everyone. I picked up myfitneespal as an app in September 2010, and while I've always considered myself a reasonably active person, I've never paid much attention to the amount of food I eat. I've been a vegan for over 20 years and kind of assumed that the fact that I do eat healthy would pretty much cover it all, not taking into consideration portion sizes, nights out for drinks with friends, etc etc, basically all the pitfalls that everyone here is familiar with. Fitnesspal has been an amazing tracking tool, it's let me sort out my goals, figure out my exercise schedule and allowed me to really see when I was having "too much of a good thing" when it came to meals or social occasions. Weight loss has been slow, but steady. I started using the app at 245lbs, and today my weight stands at 229.1lbs. I'm aiming to get to the low 200's, but I'm so happy with the changes that have happened.

Along with food awareness, I've been able to focus my exercise goals and began to take my enjoyment of running up a level or two. I've done a couple of 5k running workshops in the past few years, but this winter I've been out 2-3 times a week early in the morning running with a friend. We tend to average 8-10k each run, so it's been between 16-30k each week all winter. I've been doing some strength training to compliement the runs, and over all must say that at 40 years old, I've never felt fitter.

This Saturday I ran my first 10k race, with a time of 59.10.6., which put me in 57th place out of a hundred or so participants. No records broken, but I'm extremely happy with my result. I feel like myfitnesspal has played a huge part of why I've been able to reach this point, and just wanted to say thanks guys!