What is your best fitness achievement to date?
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I did not start running until 70 lbs were gone which was just recently... I can now run 4 miles... and my next best and getting better is my weightlifting... progress every week nearly... my numbers make me feel like I could really do something wildiy crazy with it like enter a contest ... idk. Whatever happened in my once idle heart had radically changed. I crave momentum and strength11
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Age 20: Completed a 2-month expedition with backpacking and canoeing (sometimes carrying the canoe on top of my pack!).
Age 30: Ran a half-marathon.
Age 45: Finished my first triathlon.
Age 46 (last month): Beat my rowing coach at a 1000m sprint!
Next month: To be determined.
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Wow - I love this thread!
This is going to sound stupid, but my best fitness acheivement is the fact that I trained for my most recent half marathon without getting injured in the training process - that was a first for me...
To accomplish the injury free race training, I started resistance training for the first time... and I can real pushups now (haven't been able to since I was much younger)....
So mine are 1. Running without hurting myself and 2. Doing pushups.
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My longest run was 11 miles. I'm now averaging something in the region of 5-7 miles with each run. I was never athletic at school and even as a skinny teen I'd never ran more than 2 miles. Now here I am, almost 49, running 11 miles!14
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Age 20: Completed a 2-month expedition with backpacking and canoeing (sometimes carrying the canoe on top of my pack!).
Age 30: Ran a half-marathon.
Age 45: Finished my first triathlon.
Age 46 (last month): Beat my rowing coach at a 1000m sprint!
Next month: To be determined.
These are awesome achievements!
Was just wondering whereabouts your expedition was?
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Planks. Every day. Yay. And no more back pain.11
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noobletmcnugget wrote: »Age 20: Completed a 2-month expedition with backpacking and canoeing (sometimes carrying the canoe on top of my pack!).
Age 30: Ran a half-marathon.
Age 45: Finished my first triathlon.
Age 46 (last month): Beat my rowing coach at a 1000m sprint!
Next month: To be determined.
These are awesome achievements!
Was just wondering whereabouts your expedition was?
@noobletmcnugget - We spent one month on and around the Rio Grande River on the Texas/Mexico border, then flew up to the Boundary Waters area of Minnesota/Canada for the second month. Even more fun is that my son just finished the same trip this past summer, at the same age I was when I did it. 5 -
I've done a lot of things I never thought possible seeing as I couldn't run around the block in 1995:
1. qualifying for boston on my second marathon back in 1996 and going back for my fourth in 2018
2. running 100 miles
3. running 52 marathons in 52 weeks when I turned 52
4. doing an Ironman at the age of 40 and now at the age of 57 going to do my fourth
one thing I would love to do is a pull-up....I keep working on it at the gym
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Today is my 40th birthday- Reaching it is my best fitness achievement to date and the reason I started this thread
Now that is a significant day in anyone's life but for me it is the day I have fought against for 13 years.
At the age of 14 I was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. I lived on under 800 calories a day for years. (Ramen noodles and rice cakes were my total diet.)
I was hospitalised and force pump fed via a vpn twice over the years.
Due to the lack of nutrients during my developing years I have severe bone density issues which used to be able to leave me not able to get out of bed for a week at a time. The pain was ridiculous and I lived on pain killers to get through every day.
Then at the age of 26 I met my husband. He made me see life in a different way and I started to fight against it. I started to eat the number of calories my body needed and I started to take calcium and vitamin D daily. I got stronger with every week and month that passed.
I started to exercise to help with bone density and strengthen the muscles around my spine (L1&2 C12 totally damaged). There were times I literally cried with pain to get up but get up I did.
Further down the line I was strong enough to start the couch to 5K. Running was my aim due to the way it strengthens bones.
Then from there went on to 10k and half marathon training.
Fast forward to now and I am not in a wheel chair like the Doctors said I would be by 40 if I lived that long.
I'm 40, ran 12 miles on Sunday, have very little pain and get a lot less bone cracks or breaks every year.
Don't listen to your limitations- Push it with every thing you've got. Your older self will thank you for it.
To any one who under eats calories. Don't. I look much better now with a BMI of 20 then I did as a skeleton with a clothes hanger for shoulders!
I'm going to enjoy my day (Read week, I'm the queen in my house so can have a queens length brthday ) with a smug look that I am strong and healthy. 41 -
Although it's by far not the longest run I ever did it felt amazing when I beat a speed record last week : 2.5 miles in 32 minutes.
And also, recently deadlifting 298 lbs after being a relative weakling most of my life.
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Running my first half marathon a couple of years ago, a year previously i couldn't run for more then 2 minutes without getting out of breath10
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Bike distance: Increasing my longest single bike ride from 13 to 42 miles; increasing my best annual mileage from 1100 to 28009
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RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »Which fitness achievement are you most proud of?
Best lift, best run, hike, climb, ride, going from not being able to walk upstairs but can now run them.
Post them all, and if you have pics please post them
Actually ... a few things come to mind.
My four 1200 km randonnees. Randonnees are timed cycling events. Cyclists have 90 hours to cycle 1200 km, including all breaks.
My first was the Rocky Mountain 1200 in 2002 in Canada. Next I did the Paris-Brest-Paris 1200 in 2003 in France. In 2004, I did the Great Southern Randonnee 1200 in Australia. And then I did the Last Chance 1200 in USA.
Riding all four qualified me for the International Super Randonneur 3 Continents 1200 award (ISR 3C)
http://www.aukweb.net/results/isr/
Of those four, the one I think I'm most proud of was the Great Southern Randonnee because I was the first woman to do it.
Also one of the best rides I've ever had was a 24-hour time trial in the US in 2006. I completed 287.3 miles (462.4 kms) in those 24 hours.
The story is here: http://www.machka.net/24_Hour/2006_UMCA24hour.htm
And more recently ... I'm just pleased I'm getting back into it again! Last August I completed a 400 km randonnee again for the first time in several years and last month (March), I cycled 1000 km including two 200 km randonnees. If all goes well I just might do another 1200 km or 24-hour race again!
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Mastering the side splits. ^^ I've always admired flexible people, and I always felt that doing the splits was one important move that demonstrated flexibility.15
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Having been obese most of my life, I dropped 70 of the 100lb I needed to a couple of years ago. And then I started running! Having never run before, I completed my C25K in June two years ago, and last weekend ran the Lincoln 10K. The time wasn't too impressive, the distance, for 2 years in, not that great, but the fact I'm still running two years later makes me feel good about myself.
(I have horrifically low self-esteem most of the time, so anything that I can actually say "I'm good" about is hugely important to me.)18 -
Having been obese most of my life, I dropped 70 of the 100lb I needed to a couple of years ago. And then I started running! Having never run before, I completed my C25K in June two years ago, and last weekend ran the Lincoln 10K. The time wasn't too impressive, the distance, for 2 years in, not that great, but the fact I'm still running two years later makes me feel good about myself.
(I have horrifically low self-esteem most of the time, so anything that I can actually say "I'm good" about is hugely important to me.)
That is a great achievement, congratulations on your 10k 3 -
I have had a few but my biggest one to date is passing a two hour sparring and vicious stress/endurance test and earning First Rank in Muay Thai... at almost 50 years old I might add
.... oh, and deadlifting 200 LBs!12 -
RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »Today is my 40th birthday- Reaching it is my best fitness achievement to date and the reason I started this thread
Now that is a significant day in anyone's life but for me it is the day I have fought against for 13 years.
At the age of 14 I was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. I lived on under 800 calories a day for years. (Ramen noodles and rice cakes were my total diet.)
I was hospitalised and force pump fed via a vpn twice over the years.
Due to the lack of nutrients during my developing years I have severe bone density issues which used to be able to leave me not able to get out of bed for a week at a time. The pain was ridiculous and I lived on pain killers to get through every day.
Then at the age of 26 I met my husband. He made me see life in a different way and I started to fight against it. I started to eat the number of calories my body needed and I started to take calcium and vitamin D daily. I got stronger with every week and month that passed.
I started to exercise to help with bone density and strengthen the muscles around my spine (L1&2 C12 totally damaged). There were times I literally cried with pain to get up but get up I did.
Further down the line I was strong enough to start the couch to 5K. Running was my aim due to the way it strengthens bones.
Then from there went on to 10k and half marathon training.
Fast forward to now and I am not in a wheel chair like the Doctors said I would be by 40 if I lived that long.
I'm 40, ran 12 miles on Sunday, have very little pain and get a lot less bone cracks or breaks every year.
Don't listen to your limitations- Push it with every thing you've got. Your older self will thank you for it.
To any one who under eats calories. Don't. I look much better now with a BMI of 20 then I did as a skeleton with a clothes hanger for shoulders!
I'm going to enjoy my day (Read week, I'm the queen in my house so can have a queens length brthday ) with a smug look that I am strong and healthy.
Happy birthday and congratulations on your amazing and inspiring achievements! You rock!3 -
Staying consistent would be mine9
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Today I did a plank for 2 mins. I started doing planks 30 days ago.
This is a feat for me bc in my mind I say its hard for me to get up off the floor. I'm not rolling around on the floor to get fit for anyone. I lift. That's it.
I've been planking for a month with a group on line and I never imagined I would get on the floor and get up with ease. In my mind sometimes I am still a size 16 and 190 lbs. A 2 min plank is huge for me.11
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