sadlazarus

Well done. Really well done.

Day 3, 11k, one hour. Graduated. Bright December sun, a glorious morning for it. Until you go round a corner where the sun hasn't touched and it's like a bloody ice rink. Still, it's done. Have never- will never- allow weather to dictate to me. But those hills between Newport and Cwmbran are killers in the cold. The…

Day 2, 10.5k in an hour. In the sleet. With some nice big hills (including a quite punishing long gradual incline). That'll do. Graduate on Sunday, really not sure how to go on from here.

A touch under 11k in an hour. That'll do. Starting to think about what comes next since I'll be graduating on Sunday. I guess half marathon?

At 6am I will begin this. At the moment in South Wales it's a balmy 3 degrees and the hail is coming in sideways on a hellcold wind. I am not looking forward to this at all.

Week 5, Day 1: Done. It was a bit easier than the preceding weeks due to the reduced running time (44min) and I managed a full 5 miles/ 8km. That puts me at around 6.5mph, a tiny bit under the pace for 10k in an hour, which this time next week I should be managing. I'm happy with that.

Hello group of people, I'm just into W3 (just did D1) of the B210K. Using the not in the least bit scientific method of plotting my route on Google Maps I just managed to do 9k (9.33 rounded down for caution). Sometimes it goes well, I suppose- but most of the time I do this amusing flailing and huffing thing that doesn't…

50kg of iron, one 6 foot 10kg bar and 2 dumbbells and one bench is all I've got. For everything else, there's running shoes, The Darkness and unlimited road. Don't need no fancy machines in a room full of lycra-clad poseurs at exorbitant prices.

I graduated C25K a few weeks back; I can't say enough good things about it. I actually went from couch to 5k, too- decades of nothing except junk, computer games and almost unbelievable tobacco consumption to running 5k in 30 minutes. Three most important things I learned (your mileage may vary): 1: Week 5 Day 3 is more a…

You can't spot train, so keep hammering the cardio. Sprints are pretty good since it's a mighty cardio exercise and you work your obliques pretty hard.

Ah, don't be too hard on 'em. They mean well enough, but I know where you're coming from. But yeah, go do your handstand pushups. Try balancing a fridge on the soles of your feet just for the craic.

Do what you did to get pregnant in the first place.

I still haven't found an exercise that I like and I doubt I ever will. I've come to consider it like medicine. Leaves a bad taste and I feel a certain resentment that there's any necessity for it, but I have to do it to get better. This is probably no help at all, but a lot of people presume to advise that you must find a…

I push through, but I'm willing to bet that it's frowned upon.

Ah, but my dear Artemis, it must be tungsten carbide as it is to serve as a symbol of my vow. It cannot be bent or twisted, nor can it be scratched or tarnished. If you want to melt it, you will have to work harder than if it were any other metal. It is the heaviest biologically functional metal, and I wish always to feel…

^ This. You can, perhaps should, eat your remaining 1489. You can't run your body for the day on 211 cals.

Not being a lady, I can't say I'm an expert. What I can say is when a woman is menstruating I wouldn't dare tell her that she can't eat 500 extra calories...

As luck would have it, that'll be a running day so I'll be doing it with you: or rather, before you as I'm in the UK. I will have run before you're out of bed, so you'd best not let me down :) But yeah, you'll be on your way to 10k by February, man.

No use doing any one exercise on it's own, unfortunately. If you're looking for a flat belly, sit ups or what have you are fine and will tone the muscle, but you need cardio and lots of it to burn the fat that's resting on the muscle to be able to see them.

One bad day will not kill you, and it is not the end of your hard work. Back on the horse tomorrow, no worries. Might not even impact your weigh in.

Fish in general, mackerel in particular.

Bugger Yoda. 900 years old and still hadn't got the hang of basic sentence structure. My face he can get the hell out of. With his cod philosophy and living in a swamp.

Chips (or French Fries if that's what you call them where you are). They always smell so very good. I don't mind an oven chip from time to time, but chips/fries are a great injustice visited upon the potato.

It is wise indeed to heed the lessons of another's experience instead of waiting for your own. Good health to your father, and to you: you're in the best place to get support and help.

Not to say you can't make it work, but it sounds faddy, and fads are by definition short lived. Stick with what you know, what you're comfortable with. Edit: Haven't eaten meat since childhood; in principle think vegetarianism is good thing for entire world. Was trying to keep comment in a certain context for dieter.

Radio sadlazarus: all 70's, all the time.

French food seems to be better for rugby players... Ha! I'm just messin', welcome to MFP.

By Thunder, what an amazing change! I mean, the usual "way to go"s and "great job"s aren't enough here. That is just incredible work, take a bow.

You are wonderful people and I thank you all. I knew I was just being silly there but still needed approval in a manner of speaking. Curse my jelly brainedness.

According to BMI, the Welsh rugby team (who were magnificent today, Cymru ymlaen!) are all morbidly obese except Shane Williams. So while it's a handy number to know and has a certain value, BMI is just one of many ways we can beat ourselves up if we choose to: and damn us all, but we do like to beat ourselves up :)