What's Your Most Recent NSV

I am doing a Trail half marathon 12th August, and training has been very lack lustre the last couple of weeks. It's been unnaturally hot here in the UK. Found a new route in the local country park this morning though, and did 8 miles. Feels like it's back on track.

tammierlewis wrote: »

@FeelingAlive Isn't it great? I was looking at a video my husband made while I was on my SUP and noticed my back looking more defined.

Mine is doing that from SUP paddling also. When I flex, I have that muscle a few inches down from the shoulder that runs along the top of the shoulder blade really show some shape. I am not sure I have ever seen it so pronounced before, even when I was younger and in really good shape. Paddling is doing a lot for my upper body. I am typically paddling 5 to 10 miles twice a week on an inflatable all around that doesn't glide well, so it is a serious workout.

Getting back into all my jeans and dresses I bought 2 years ago 💃🏻 just did a little dance 😝

After a week of bemoaning slow scale progress, this morning I tried on my red dragon dress. I wanted to look good in this dress for the Christmas party season. I have squeezed into it in the past few weeks and felt sad because I never thought it would look good on me again (last worn out in 2002! 🤤) Well, today it fits! In a wearable way! I mean, it will be greatly improved with another half stone off but ye gods - it fits and doesn't look awful. Who knows, I may even have shrunk out of it for the winter party season - and I hate, loathe and detest clothes shopping 😃 For anyone worried about slow weight loss, keep checking measurements and clothes.

motivatedmartha wrote: »

After a week of bemoaning slow scale progress, this morning I tried on my red dragon dress. I wanted to look good in this dress for the Christmas party season. I have squeezed into it in the past few weeks and felt sad because I never thought it would look good on me again (last worn out in 2002! 🤤) Well, today it fits! In a wearable way! I mean, it will be greatly improved with another half stone off but ye gods - it fits and doesn't look awful. Who knows, I may even have shrunk out of it for the winter party season - and I hate, loathe and detest clothes shopping 😃 For anyone worried about slow weight loss, keep checking measurements and clothes.

I was playing dress up just the other day checking how different clothes now fit! great fun - and congrats on slaying your dragon!!

Feeling confident enough to wear this short of a 👗dress 😳💪🏻

I would like to give a thumbs up or Woo to everyone for their NSV! Congratulations.

AMAZING! So impressed. Congratulations on sticking at it! Perhaps you will be able to enjoy your next challenge a bi more

OMGGGGGG.

Last Thursday: I ran a mile in class, and though I didn't log to the second, I finished sometime within the 13 minute mark. Previous fastest time, like, end of last year, was in the 15:30ish range. I'm so so so so excited about that.

Also, I climbed the Coba pyramid in Mexico last Monday. I paused a couple times to just take a deep breath and look around, but I didn't *stop* during the ascent or descent. I was huffing pretty hard at the top, but so was eeeeeverryyoonnneee else. Doing this has been a dream of mine, and I've avoided making the trip and doing it because I didn't think I could.

I paddled SUP for 3 hours non stop (except for very short water breaks; like under 30 seconds every half hour or so). Distance was 9.6 miles, which isn't great but I have a short, slow SUP.

I had to get my walk/run workout in early so I could stay overnight in hospital with my sis who has breast cancer and had surgery. It was still much warmer (I usually run a few hours later when it’s a bit cooler) and the dew point was 79! At 3 miles, I just stopped. I had been averaging 4-5, but I wanted to be able to help my sis and pushing myself under the conditions would have rendered me almost useless, and crabby to boot. I knew my cal count for the day was fine, so I took a break and just let it go. Having faith in the process and the long view has made me a happier person.

Yesterday I decided I couldn’t be bothered going on a hike - I was tired, my achilles was sore, TOM meant that being away from civilised toilet facilities might be frustrating - and I would just go back to bed.

Nobody was more surprised than me to discover me tromping along by Sengenydd *kitten* three hours later. It was a ten-mile hike, easily my longest yet (it was only meant to be 8 1/2, but I got lost and came the wrong way off the hill), but at the end I felt I could still go further. And today I feel fine (except for my achilles, which has unsurprisingly not been miraculously healed by the experience). Now I just need to find some more long hikes where the start and end points aren’t annoyingly distant from one another...

ceiswyn wrote: »

...err, MFP? That particular kitten is a perfectly good British term for a ditch and/or wall, often used to mark boundaries in the middle ages. In Scotland the word is used extensively to refer to walls, particularly drystane ones. Just so you know.

Hahaha, the best thing is there will be a bunch of people who will desperately want to know what that kitten was now!

Deviette wrote: »

ceiswyn wrote: »

...err, MFP? That particular kitten is a perfectly good British term for a ditch and/or wall, often used to mark boundaries in the middle ages. In Scotland the word is used extensively to refer to walls, particularly drystane ones. Just so you know.

Hahaha, the best thing is there will be a bunch of people who will desperately want to know what that kitten was now!

And in the meantime, I am having all sorts of mildly traumatic mental images!

Deviette wrote: »

ceiswyn wrote: »

...err, MFP? That particular kitten is a perfectly good British term for a ditch and/or wall, often used to mark boundaries in the middle ages. In Scotland the word is used extensively to refer to walls, particularly drystane ones. Just so you know.

Hahaha, the best thing is there will be a bunch of people who will desperately want to know what that kitten was now!

I suspect that is is the derogatory term for a masculine lady/lesbian. But for most of the UK it is also a perfectly acceptable word for a ditch or raised stone wall - google Offa and you will see.