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I am 34 yrs old. I weigh 182 lbs. I got to my lowest at 157 while marathon training. I would love to get back to that again. I am very active-just completed an Olympic Tri but I dont think I am getting in a "fat burning" range in terms of my workouts. I am cutting out bad carbs this week and seeing if that helps. I am also…

Thanks alot. I know I need to worry about the upcoming weeks thats why I really knew I had to do the nine. I hate being a SAHM during summer then thrown back into the grind with teaching. Get such a nice running schedule going then its all messed up once school starts LOL

I have been following a half marathon schedule and the longest I have run so far is 7. I have trained before but wanted others opinion

How much movement is it?? I live on an upper floor in an apt building. Want to buy it but not sure because of noise for downstairs neighbors.

When you have to run so many miles (9 tonight) that it becomes dark out by the time you are done but you are ok with that because it is calming When you dont sleep the night before a 18 mile run and excitedly get up at 5 am to do it! LOL

You totally inspired me!! Thank you for sharing this! :)

Thats awesome! I am on my 3rd event with TEAM IN TRAINING and you are going to love it!!! Please use your mentor and coach=they will help you so much. They truly believe any question is a good question and want to help you as much as they can. Please feel free to email me and I will help also. You are beginning an amazing…

5 miles is great base to start with. I ran a really low amount of Mondays, a average amount (5) on Tues and Thurs and then Saturdays were my long runs. Please join us on the thread labled MFP Runners Club. You will get great advice there and make alot of running buddies! Best of luck!

Id love to join! Ive done one half and have one planned in the spring/then one planned in the early. My goal is to do a marathon in the late fall of 2010!!

Yay! Yay! Yay! So proud of you! We went through alot together this year and I know you have come so far! You are going to kick *kitten* at this! Totally believe in yourself-stick to the schedule and take care of yourself! Keep us updated!

Did six miles tonight. I missed two of my runs this week so I was nervous but did fine. Considering running a 10 mile race this Saturday instead of running with my group. I need some excitement!! :) I'll let ya know if I do and how I survive :) It will be my first double digit run!

jess's kids are back in school...watch out--this woman will be doing an ironman in no time!! haha!:laugh:

Sounds like you are doing great. I am running a 1/2 marathon for Team in Training. We run Mon, Tues, Thurs and then the long run in Saturday. It is a great schedule. I havent crosstrained but alot of people seemed to think it helped their performance. I visit runnersworld.com along with this site. Do you hang out in the…

I was told I looked awake once! I think because my cheeks werent finally chipmunk size!!LOL

You need to come hang out with us in the Runners Club!! So inspiring!

Shuntae--reading your post just makes me so proud of you and all of us that are C25K graduates and how our conversations how evolved from "how are we going to really run 5 minutes straight?" to "what race are we going to run next?" I have had several "little" moments lately where I have gotten to realize how much has…

Got in 8 miles today really early this morning! Felt great to be able to do so well by myself. I def find it really easy to run with the group so I was proud of myself for running the whole time. It is such a pleasure to run in the morning: beautiful scenery, nice light, friendly awake people not in a rush! Def enjoyed it!

Rest day for me! But AMAZING news..... I have a charity event tonight which has a set cost and knowing what I will pull in from that I HAVE HIT MY FUNDRAISING TOTAL FOR TEAM IN TRAINING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! $2,000 :drinker: :bigsmile: :laugh: :happy: :drinker: :drinker: So…

I make a whole batch of quesidillas and then freeze them

I wont be able to run with my group tonight since ex has a work meeting=no babysitter. So I figured out how to run six miles from my apartment to ex's house. Then I hopped in the car with him and the kids and he drove us back home! :laugh:

Got in a 5 miler today and I felt like a runner--it was a really good run and I ran most of it alone! I ate an english muffin with peanut butter/honey and then some strawberries+bananas=definetly eating that again!!

Heading out to run 3 miles on the track. Its finally getting hot here in PA-in the upper 90s today which we havent had almost all summer! Hopefully I wont melt!

Be careful! Shaving 2 minutes off is great!! Dont want to injure yourself and then not run at all.

My run went well. Split it into 3/3/3 with 2 water breaks so that worked out great plus I had a couple girls to run with! My body is Hurting though now! Ugh!

Heading out this morning to do 9 with the Team in Training group (thank goodness!!) Hope I survive to check back in and tell you what an amazing wonderful run it was :bigsmile: :grumble: :tongue:

Did a 5 miler at the local nature center tonight! So excited because I thought I was going to have to run alone tonight since the group run was cancelled and one of the girls from Team in Training showed up too. We talked the entire time and it went so fast!! 9 miler on Saturday :grumble:

Well I have a concert to go to Halloween night so thats out BUT I really like the Shamrock Marathon so maybe that needs to be a MFP Runners Club event! There is even a half marathon so if needed we can do that!! :laugh: Lets get a plan going!!! :drinker: :drinker:

A 10K sponsored by Blue Moon??? That my beer of choice :drinker: :drinker: I love that beer! Where is it?? jabdye-liking where you are going with this whole run=drinking beer! Rest Day for me!

Did a 5 mile run today and it went really well!! I LOVE :love: this girl, Nicolette, that is an alumni of Team In Training and alot of times we run together. We have a great pace together and I seriously could run miles and miles with her by my side!!

Did 3 miles today at race pace--took a minute of my 5K time I did in June. Mentally I want to be going so much faster but not really doing any work to get faster:ohwell: Julie-If you know that it will hurt you to run the 13 miles-dont do it. You already know that you can run the distance. Let yourself be rested and then…