April Move your @ss Challenge

I did 12.5 miles today and I easily had another mile in me. Now I feel like I can commit to saying I'm doing a half marathon on May 6. I signed up for it a while back but wasn't 100% convinced I'd be ready. Today's training run was way slower than my target pace but I think that's because I ran on some back country roads and miscalculated how much traffic there would be .... I kept having to jump into the ditch beside the road to get out of the way and I'm pretty sure that affected my time! But even if I run the half at today's pace I will finish it in the 3 hours they allow before they close the course. Now my last challenge is to get myself ready for a 7am start ... I usually run around 10 am LOL.

Darkrider and all the rest of you who are close to your goals, keep going. We can do this!!

@jth - You are doing AMAZING! Great run today! You will do fine in the half on the 6th!

You are doing fabulous and you will do great in your half, don't you even worry!!

Whoot! Just did 1.5 miles on my lunch

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Ran 4.2 miles today, in my best time to date.

Doing my update! Gosh I joined 2 more challenges and it is keeping me moving, they have cardio but it isn't running on some days!
I am LOVING it!!!
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So... I completely lost motivation for about 13 days. I have been working nonstop and sleeping not enough- so that killed my morning workouts. I am trying to work out in the evenings again to see if that will work better with my schedule. However, I may be back on track.... not to meet my goal, but to exercising again. I walked/ jogged 3.5 miles tonight.

This gives me a total of 16.5 miles out of a 40 mile goal.

4/25: 5.0 miles

Ran 3.97 this morning. Perfect weather for running: sunny & cloudy, 6C, nice breeze... Awesome! Now that my run is done, the sun can come out. :laugh:

Ticker updated

3.4 miles today.

Swam 1 mile
Biked 7 miles
Walked 2 miles

Completed my biking miles for this challenge...now to finish my swimming and walking/running miles!

152.5 completed of 160

2.79 today in my first stint back in the gym since being cleared to do some additional structured workout beyond cardiac rehab.

33.309 miles completed which is 3.309 over my goal for the month. Perhaps I can hit 40+ by the end of the month.


A couple of NSVs in the last couple of days ... just had my third night of being able to sleep in a bed on my side/stomach. After spending the last six weeks sleeping in chairs/recliners waiting for my chest to fuse and the hinges to heal and despite the fact that it hurt like heck the first couple of nights, last night was almost "normal" and I'm not nearly as sore today as I have been the last two days.

Went through my closet today and tossed all of my short-sleeved XXL shirts in a box to donate them. Didn't even worry about having to see if any of them still fit. XXL is officially "too big" for me in shirts.

@foxbat2828: Everything is falling into place for you my friend! This is great news! AND, like it wasn't enough, you crush your goal!!! Again!!!!

Goal: 90 miles

Completed today (4/26) – 4 miles (Leslie Sansone Walk Slim 5 Really Big Miles)

Total completed – 83 miles

Left to complete – 7 miles

You are awesome and I'm so glad you stuck around the thread even with limited abilities while recovering. It's people like you that keeps us "regular" folk going. You rock my friend. Great great work.

It goes both ways. I found great success in getting motivated at the start of this year when I stumbled upon this thread. Seeing everyone else working toward their goals got me to the point of pushing to meet a goal and then surpass it.

When I had my bypass surgery, it was seeing everyone else on the thread pushing through that motivated me to stay engaged. I had originally planned, right after my surgery, to just take off the entire recovery period and eat whatever and not worry about any exercise. Instead, staying engaged via everyone else pushing through on this thread made me decide to do the best that I could to stick with my pre-surgery motivation. As such, I've been able to actually continue to lose weight during the recovery period by watching what I eat and also meet my limited miles while recovering. I think sticking with my diet and being motivated by fellow MFPers to stay active have contributed to my continued recovery and progress. Looking forward to getting through this recovery and getting back to seeing how much more I can continue to set new goals.

@foxbat you da man

Quick summary of the April Challenge: 4,200 miles moved overall, 10 people have reached their goals, 14 moved over 100 miles :happy:

Update with my TM miles while watching " DEAL or No DEAL"!!!

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