I RAN!

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Posts: 1,110
6/19/12 12:08 A

Your new found fitness is showing! When you take care of your body, it can take you anywhere (at running speed)!

Spark On!

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6/18/12 9:17 P

Great job!!

current weight: 152.5

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SparkPoints: (12,359)
Fitness Minutes: (14,437)
Posts: 315
6/18/12 8:48 P

Congrats! These are the exciting things we celebrate. Running 30 sec, 60 sec, 90 sec, 3 mins, 8 mins. That's how I became a runner. After carrying around various running books.... Beginner Runner, Couch to 5K, Everything a Woman Needs to Know about Becoming a Runner, Jeff Galloway book of Marathon Training... etc.... every other silly titled book about running.... for several years. I ran once and didn't like how it felt so I stopped. Then a few years later I did it again. This time running the way Jeff Galloway suggests, with walk breaks.... starting out running for 30 sec then increasing and walking between. Now I run 2-3 miles most days and on some nice refreshing rainy days (rain is my favorite way to run) I have run up to 4.5 miles. If I can do it.... formerly 230 lbs.... formerly couch bound.... formerly a non mover much less a non runner.... you can do it.

WooHoo !!!! Keep going! A little bit more every day! or even every other day! You don't have to go every day to make progress.

current weight: 181.4

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6/18/12 8:22 P

Congrats - I picked up the pace on the treadmill tonigh and ran too - only for about 90 sec at a time but did that 3 times - felt great!

current weight: 180.5

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Fitness Minutes: (15,986)
Posts: 1,487
6/16/12 10:47 A

Congrats! Look at you go!

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6/16/12 7:59 A

Well done!

current weight: 178.0

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6/16/12 6:31 A

Good on you! Congrats.

Pounds lost: 119.5

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6/16/12 12:00 A

Great job!

current weight: 206.0

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Fitness Minutes: (858)
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6/15/12 10:34 P

It wasn't far, but I did it! Thank goodness I have my husband to push and support me. We did a fast paced walk around the block, and when we finished up the loop, he noticed I wasn't breathing heavily.
"It looks like we will be able to start jogging pretty soon," he had said. So...I said, why not?!
Instead of jogging though, I ran my chubby little butt down one of the street and back.
I felt like my chest was on fire, but I will definitely be doing it every night now. Hopefully getting further and further each time.

Pounds lost: 8.4

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