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This is inspiring! Great work!

So we spent a good chunk of the weekend in the car. My brother in law had his 40th birthday party so we left home Saturday morning, *AFTER* I squeezed in a jog (this is a NSV in itself) stopped at a town about half way and caught up with my best friend and her fiance for lunch. Saturday was his birthday, so it was so good…

Thank you 😁

This morning I done my first ever 5km jog! I was hoping to get it done in under 45 minutes. I know I can do 4km in half an hour, but I'm usually pushing myself a bit to get it done. I didn't want to push myself this morning, I just wanted to see how long it would take me to get to 5km. This morning the 4km only took me…

One of my main motivations is to be a lighter load for my ponies, I don't believe this is at all a petty reason! 😁🤠🐴 ETA- By ponies, I mean my horses, where I come from we jokingly call all horses ponies

Set a pb of 4.28km in 30 minutes on my jog this morning :) I'm hoping that by the end of the year I will be able to jog 5km in 30 minutes. I'm quietly confident that I will do it, but I don't want to get ahead of myself. I'm enjoying all these little wins too much 😁

Thank you! It feels pretty good to be a runner 😁 I was actually just saying to my other half the other day how I hadn't been sick yet this year and there's been a flu going around already. I have been taking immune boosters as well to help, but I'm certain the change in diet and being even more active than what I already…

When my alarm first went off this morning I checked the radar and it looked like there was going to be some rain in about 15-30 minutes. I'm usually prone to colds and flues so I try to stay out of the rain for prolonged periods. Reset my alarm for quarter past 5 (figured in 45 minutes the rain would have passed since it…

Completed c25k this morning!!! Well the final workout anyway. I'm far from done with it! 30 minutes of jogging. Never in my life have I jogged that long! And truth be told it wasn't even that hard. Proof that my fitness is improving 😁 I was hoping to jog 4km in that 30 minutes. I wasn't actively trying to though, I just…

This morning I started week 8 of c25k (the final week!) 28 minutes of jogging. At around the 8 minutes left mark I got a stitch, I just slowed down a little and kept on going. It's hard to believe that come Friday I will have completed the whole thing. I have started c25k so many times over my life, I'm just so proud that…

Mostly a scale victory here this morning, but I had to share because I feel like it's an important milestone in my journey. This morning I stepped on the scales just to see how much weight my horse has to haul around tomorrow. I'm finally down to my original starting weight from 10 years ago. Well pretty much anyway, I'm…

Week 7 Day 1 of c25k this morning. 25 minutes of jogging! If you told back in November that I would be jogging for 25 minutes straight by mid March I would have laughed at you, yet here I am. Still going steady, but I know the speed will come with time. I did make it to 3.25km in the 25 minutes though, so not as slow as I…

Oh also- 22 minutes of jogging last night! Turned on Map my walk as I started my jog part of c25k w6d3 (I think) and I jogged 2.97km in that time- so close!

I bought this belt *years* ago. It has never fit me, yesterday I tried it on again after trying it on and it almost fitting last weekend. I can get it done up! So excited to be able to wear it finally, I have a barrel race this weekend, I think by then the belt will fit even better (it's actually not as tight as I expected…

Thank you, it's something I've struggled with because in the past if I missed one day, then it was an excuse to go the rest of that week before kicking off again, and usually by the beginning of the next week I'd find some other excuse. This morning I got up and went for my walk/jog again, no need to worry about falling…

This morning I slept in instead of going for my walk/jog. Seems like a bizarre nsv hey? But the nsv is that I listened to my body this morning when it was telling me it needed a bit longer to sleep and I don't feel one little bit guilty or like I have messed up and now I'm going to fall off the wagon completely. Nope, I…

C25k week 5 day 3- 20 minute jog, no breaks! Slow as a wet week, but I'm totally ok with that, because I jogged for 20 minutes without stopping and I didn't die! Yew! #SetAGoalAndSmashThatSucker #RoadToFit

I've been doing all of my riding in an all purpose saddle since after our memoir barrel race as I wanted to work on balance. I put my mares out after the barrel race for a well deserved break and brought my partner's gelding in to get my fix in the meantime. Breaka is a little spookier than my mares due to the fact that…

You, sir, are my hero!

11:15am local time and I have been out for a walk/jog, taken a horse for a nice slow ride along the creek and completed a dance workout. I have a party to attend tonight so I knew I wouldn't get a chance to workout. Plus I want to be able to indulge a little bit, and knowing that I've burnt some extra calories helps me do…

Day 1 of week 5 c25k this morning! And it was nowhere near as hard as I was expecting it to be 😁

Thanks, I hadn't thought of it like that 😁😁😁

To get back to my original starting weight from the first time I started tracking weight and "swore to lose weight" 10 years ago..... I lost 5Kg that time, but quickly found it again and then some. I've put on weight every year since then.... I'm just over 2Kg away from that goal now. I feel like I'm finally in the zone, I…

It was struggle street for me this morning. My smart watch hadn't charged all the way (I must have bumped it off it's charger) so I put it back on, I noticed it was close to charged anyway so decided to wait for it to charger before going on my walk, stepped outside of the bedroom and could hear the wind almost howling…

Yesterday I managed to keep my pace at or above 8km/h for all the jogs of week 3 day 2 of c25k. I've been working at this for a few weeks so it's good to know I can finally do it. This morning was week 4 day 2 again. No work on pace this morning. I looked down at one stage and was going only 6.5km/h so I did up my speed a…

My 4:15am and 4:20am alarms both failed to wake me this morning. So when my partner's alarm went off at quarter past 5 I felt disappointed that I would have to skip either my walk/jog or riding. I have bootcamp this afternoon so I could have skipped the walk/jog. But I decided that I wanted to do it. I don't think I will…

The scale went up 45grams this morning, but I'm not stressing. I haven't been perfect with my eating and with a bigger loss last week, I expected it to be harder to lose this week. Normally seeing the scales go up would worry me, this time I'm just seeing it as a reality check that no, I didn't deserve to lose weight this…

Still kicking along with weeks 3 & 4 of c25k. Working on speed in week 3, still dropped under 8km/h a couple of times this morning but got myself back above it. Not only that, but my walking pace is getting much better! At the beginning I was walking between 4.5 and 5.5km/h. I've made it my goal this week to stay around…

I braved week 4 day 1 of c25k yesterday. Week 4 has always frightened me a little, it's the first week where the walk segments are less than the jog segments. And the first 5 minute jog. I made it without giving up. Yes it was turtle pace, but the important thing is I didn't decide it was too hard and just walk the rest of…

Had another bootcamp session yesterday and jogged the full kilometre warm up again 😁 We usually have our sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but because there was a funeral on Tuesday so we made up for our missed session on Wednesday. I was one of the first few people picked for a team for our relay. From one of the fitter…