Fitness 2009

[saskganesh]

just pm me *ALL* your extra food. I'm like a food incinerator right now.

[merithyn]

I gained almost 2 pounds 

Got to keep working this week.

Keep with it, Valmy. One bad week does not undo all the good the last few months have been.

I was down 0.8 last week, which is remarkable since I didn't keep track of what I ate at all. Ah well. There's always next week.

[merithyn]

Down 3.8 pounds this week, to hit my 5% goal weight, and which makes it a total of 10.4 pounds lost in six weeks. I may actually weight less than my husband again!

Even better, I've lost 3 inches off my waist, two inches off my hips and thighs, and - much to Max's dismay - two inches off my bust. My knees don't ache like they had been, and the high-blood-pressure headaches are pretty much gone. I have more energy and the depression that I had been struggling with hasn't reared its head in some time now.

At this rate (averaging 1.7lbs/week), I'll be 30 pounds lighter by my 40th birthday. At 5'2", that's a huge difference. Yay me!

[Lucidor]

30 km cross-country in 2.47. I really should have done more distance before this one. The last 12 km were quite brutal and the body was aching in places I have never felt before.

[saskganesh]

cool. by comparison I did 42km in 2:40 on trails and in traffic.  I keep on finding more wind the longer I bike.

[PDH]

Finally overcoming the compressed disc and pinched nerve.  I rode about 6 miles today, walked another 3.  Weight has been the same for two months, 195 lbs (+/-) and that is good.

Now, where is the buffet table?

[Lucidor]

cool. by comparison I did 42km in 2:40 on trails and in traffic.  I keep on finding more wind the longer I bike.

Running? That's good. I'll attempt the local marathon in October, if just to prove to myself I'm not completely out of shape.

[Brazen]

Went out running for the first time in months yesterday. Only did a couple of miles, but it felt pretty good.

I find out this week or next whether I've got a place in the London Marathon ballot...

[Lucidor]

Going from a few miles to a marathon too quick would hurt, I think.

[Brazen]

Going from a few miles to a marathon too quick would hurt, I think.

It's not until next April. There are plenty of beginning programmes that take you from not running at all to a marathon in that time.

[lustindarkness]

Going from a few miles to a marathon too quick would hurt, I think.

Yes it does, ask my knees.    B will be ok, she's already fit.

[Eddie Teach]

Went to the gym today. Stayed around an hour. 

[Alatriste]

Went to the gym today. Stayed around an hour. 

Cardio or just weight lifting?

[Brazen]

Meh, been rejected by the London Marathon again. that's seven times now.

I'm having my arm twisted to give another triathlon a go, though. But the one my friends are all entering has the same cycle distance for the fun, sprint and pull events - 23km :S

[Maladict]

I'm having my arm twisted to give another triathlon a go, though. But the one my friends are all entering has the same cycle distance for the fun, sprint and pull events - 23km :S

What are the distances for swimming and running?