What is your best fitness achievement to date?
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My best achievement was running 4km without additional asthma medication (puffer) - just my base level of meds.
Slowly building to 5km8 -
These are all pre-pregnancy, my baby is now 8 months old so I'm hoping to get back there.
1. Riding 125KM over 2 days with a fully loaded touring bike.
2. Riding 100KM a week for almost a year
3. Squatting my weight (135lbs)
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My best fitness achievement ... so far this year ...
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Machka9/view/campbell-town-canter-easter-adventure-weekend-200-km-300-km-924682
At Easter, my husband and I cycled a 300 km randonnee in 17 hours, including all breaks, on Good Friday ... then cycled a 200 km randonnee in 12 hours and 11 min, including all breaks, on Easter Sunday.
500 km on one weekend, in the space of about 60 hours, in the year I turned 50.
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My best fitness achievement ... so far this year ...
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Machka9/view/campbell-town-canter-easter-adventure-weekend-200-km-300-km-924682
At Easter, my husband and I cycled a 300 km randonnee in 17 hours, including all breaks, on Good Friday ... then cycled a 200 km randonnee in 12 hours and 11 min, including all breaks, on Easter Sunday.
500 km on one weekend, in the space of about 60 hours, in the year I turned 50.
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SierraFatToSkinny wrote: »My best fitness achievement ... so far this year ...
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Machka9/view/campbell-town-canter-easter-adventure-weekend-200-km-300-km-924682
At Easter, my husband and I cycled a 300 km randonnee in 17 hours, including all breaks, on Good Friday ... then cycled a 200 km randonnee in 12 hours and 11 min, including all breaks, on Easter Sunday.
500 km on one weekend, in the space of about 60 hours, in the year I turned 50.
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I won 2nd place in a duathlon in the Athena (heavyweight) division. I've never won anything besides a participation medal for sports!
I completed a sprint triathlon without walking or stopping. I just signed up for another one.
I can consistently run for 40 minutes, three years ago I could only run for 5 minutes.10 -
Running over 10 miles!7
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Strength:
Probably managing to out-muscle (and think) my *&#$^* horse at a big-deal horse show when I was a teen. Weight trained for months to build up my core and back so he couldn't yank me out of the saddle and over his head, or turn and run for the center of the arena like he was used to doing to everyone that rode him. Couldn't stop him from cow-kicking at the judges walking the line-up, but we placed well anyway. It was worth it. Got his *kitten* sold on the strength of that ride and I was so happy to see him leave for his new home
Endurance:
15 mi run. Boring on the face, but I really enjoy long runs. Should better that when I get back to marathon training.7 -
5x5 deadlift at 265 lbs, benching 150 pounds, and running for 2 miles without stopping! the run was the hardest part! I can't wait until I can do pull ups!10
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Yesterday I put up 400lbs on the incline bench press machine!!9
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Ran 10 miles straight (8min each mile)
and be came a personal trainer after losing 110 lbs 13 -
Getting rid of my bony thin arms! My friends would always call me stick thin and I got sick of it, so I started free weights for arm routines. Started at 5 lbs for bicep curls. Now i'm at 15 lbs! I've gained 8 lbs of muscle in my legs and arms to date.8
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bdavis1990 wrote: »Ran 10 miles straight (8min each mile)
and be came a personal trainer after losing 110 lbs
That is awesome! I went from 335 to 187 and ran 9.33 miles the other day. My farthest yet. Had average of 9:29 per mile. Slow but I am trying to get to 8min miles like you for that distance. I run on hilly terrain. How long (conditioning) did it take you to do that distance at that pace?
My best yet is 5.3 miles at 8:24 per mile. Kickass man, really impressed! 5 -
Love all these achievements, keep them coming whether it's you ran for 1 minute or 1 hour.
Learned to ride or a bike or cycle 100k.3 -
4,000 miles ridden in a year
longest single day event was a metric century (100K)...not sure I care to do more than that.8 -
I once squatted 550 lbs and dead-lifted 650 lbs in a competition while weighing 190. I won't mention my bench press because it was kind of embarrassingly low.
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cwolfman13 wrote: »4,000 miles ridden in a year
longest single day event was a metric century (100K)...not sure I care to do more than that.
Sure you can!
If you're still on pace to do 4000 miles this year, and if you've done a ride of 75 km in the last month, you could go out and ride another metric century ... then in 2 weeks' time you could do 120 km.
As you build up, the distances you pass get easier. For example, after you've ridden a couple imperial centuries (162 km), those 100 km rides will be just training rides.
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Well, I've run marathons, and backpacked some intense stuff, but my 22 mile "accidental" day-hike in the mountains (when I finally hiked out of the wilderness some time after dark - very slowly and carefully there at the end since I didn't want to die) felt like a much greater achievement. And I might have been more sore, too, because although it wasn't as long as a marathon, it was way, way tougher terrain and I was out there much longer. It's a long, ridiculous story...
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sonjaadcock wrote: »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
That's beast mode!
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swam the english channel when I was 20... the only reason I ever got into college XD
i love reading these, keep it up9 -
Okay, this isn't much compared to some (which are amazing, well done people) but it's a biggie for me - I have today completed Week 1 of C25K.
This is huge for me because I don't run (well, I sort of do now), I've never run, I used to avoid running at school.
But even better, my 13 yo son is running with me
We can't wait to start Week 2!13 -
Madwife2009 wrote: »Okay, this isn't much compared to some (which are amazing, well done people) but it's a biggie for me - I have today completed Week 1 of C25K.
This is huge for me because I don't run (well, I sort of do now), I've never run, I used to avoid running at school.
But even better, my 13 yo son is running with me
We can't wait to start Week 2!
You do run now!
Great getting your son involved as well 1 -
Madwife2009 wrote: »Okay, this isn't much compared to some (which are amazing, well done people) but it's a biggie for me - I have today completed Week 1 of C25K.
This is huge for me because I don't run (well, I sort of do now), I've never run, I used to avoid running at school.
But even better, my 13 yo son is running with me
We can't wait to start Week 2!
This is amazing- keep with it! I had to do several weeks of just walking because I couldn't even walk for long without gasping for breath. I have finished 3 10ks now!
Back in the day, I also did a 10k open water swim (in high school). Probably my "biggest" fitness achievement but it was a long time ago.5 -
Yesterday I completed the toughest hilly half marathon I've ever done. Loved it!6
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Madwife2009 wrote: »Okay, this isn't much compared to some (which are amazing, well done people) but it's a biggie for me - I have today completed Week 1 of C25K.
This is huge for me because I don't run (well, I sort of do now), I've never run, I used to avoid running at school.
But even better, my 13 yo son is running with me
We can't wait to start Week 2!
This is huge! Awesome! C25K was the only thing that worked for me to get running.
My accomplishment was climbing the Manitou Incline (in Colorado). Roughly 2700 steps, rising in elevation by 2,000 feet. Don't ask me how long it took or how stiff/sore/cramped I felt after it! I did finish. Now that I know what it is like, I hope to try again and actually not feel terrible for the next 2 weeks. 5 -
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Inclined 410 on the bench!!6
nice effort! 
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