Banders Exercise

[naenaern777 345]

Thanks catfish! You guys are very inspiring to me!!

[LadyDiva618 359]

Adding a little humor.... Please pray for me on August 9th. Why? Guess who sign up for to 5Ks? Yep one isin the morning and the other one is at night. How did this happend. The Diva Dash (the morning one) was on the August 2nd and got moved to the 9th. I can't cancel this one because I harassed the females in my support group to do this walk with me. Can't canceled the Blacklight Run because my bestie want me to do her first 5k run with her. I was going to run this one but I might run and walk this one. @@catfish87 this counts as a half marathon right? With that being said Tonight me and Bestie are going to walk 1 mile and jog a half of mile. Happy Thursday!

Edited June 26, 2014 by LadyDiva618

[catfish87 3,471]

@@LadyDiva618

Good job on sticking to both of them! You can totally do two 5k's in one day. Just have some liquids in between.....wine?

I'd do them with ya, but I'll be in Indy that weekend.

I'm on nights tonight, so no meeting for me. I'm gonna do the Cheering up a Sweat 10K Saturday at Maryville firemans park.

[readysetg070113 1,476]

Tom is my 5k rugged maniac mud run. I over did it at the gym Thursday with my leg workout. I pray when I wake Tom the soreness will be gib but either way I'm doing my 5k obstacle run tomorrow it was the first thing u signed up after getting banded. Last year whine in preop diet I cheered my friends one this year I'm doing it with them. We are doing a super hero theme and I'm Wonder Woman cause I wonder who this woman is but I like her lol

[naenaern777 345]

@@Readysetgo you got this girl! Your gonna do great! Have a blast!!

[LadyDiva618 359]

Happy Saturday everyone I am trying to debate if I want to make today my rest day or have one tomorrow. Anyway I was so tired yesterday I forgot to share this with everyone. Yesterday I had a. 6 mile day. Enjoy my pic.

Edited June 28, 2014 by LadyDiva618

[catfish87 3,471]

Cheering up a Sweat "10K" local race today.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/530116307

I was hoping for under an hour when I looked at the race conditions. I'm not fast by any means. My personal best at 10k is 58:27. It was VERY humid this morning at the start...100% humidity according to my garmin. I just ran by HR. There was a guy I ran with the entire race....actually, he'd run/sprint some then walk. We probably passed each other at least 10 times during the run... back and forth, back and forth. I figured he was in my age group 40-49. I ran the entire race without walking, grabbing a Water bottle at the halfway point. He passed me with at the 9.5 K mark and I just didn't have much left.

As they announced the winners, I ended up 4th in my age group....7 seconds behind 3rd place, and we were about a minute and 20 seconds behind the 2nd place guy in our age group. Kinda wishing I'd had pushed a little bit more....as I don't have a 10k medal. I was less than minute and half from getting the 2nd place medal....oh well, there's always the next one.

Happy Saturday all!

Edited to update the times after they posted the official results.

Edited June 29, 2014 by catfish87

[Debbie3sons 1,936]

Cheering up a Sweat "10K" local race today.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/530116307

I was hoping for under an hour when I looked at the race conditions. I'm not fast by any means. My personal best at 10k is 58:27. It was VERY humid this morning at the start...100% humidity according to my garmin. I just ran by HR. There was a guy I ran with the entire race....actually, he'd run/sprint some then walk. We probably passed each other at least 10 times during the run... back and forth, back and forth. I figured he was in my age group 40-49. I ran the entire race without walking, grabbing a Water bottle at the halfway point. He passed me with at the 9.5 K mark and I just didn't have much left.

As they announced the winners, I ended up 4th in my age group....3 seconds behind 3rd place, and we were about 15 seconds behind the 2nd place guy in our age group. Kinda wishing I'd had pushed a little bit more....as I don't have a 10k medal. I was less than half a minute from getting the 2nd place medal....oh well, there's always the next one.

Happy Saturday all!

Hey! You be proud of yourself for doing it and finishing.

[readysetg070113 1,476]

Cheering up a Sweat "10K" local race today. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/530116307 I was hoping for under an hour when I looked at the race conditions. I'm not fast by any means. My personal best at 10k is 58:27. It was VERY humid this morning at the start...100% humidity according to my garmin. I just ran by HR. There was a guy I ran with the entire race....actually, he'd run/sprint some then walk. We probably passed each other at least 10 times during the run... back and forth, back and forth. I figured he was in my age group 40-49. I ran the entire race without walking, grabbing a Water bottle at the halfway point. He passed me with at the 9.5 K mark and I just didn't have much left. As they announced the winners, I ended up 4th in my age group....3 seconds behind 3rd place, and we were about 15 seconds behind the 2nd place guy in our age group. Kinda wishing I'd had pushed a little bit more....as I don't have a 10k medal. I was less than half a minute from getting the 2nd place medal....oh well, there's always the next one. Happy Saturday all!

Awesome job and you will get that medal !!

[readysetg070113 1,476]

Did the rugged maniac mud run and completed all the obstacles except the rings . Too short to reach them and too weak to swing on them. My new fitness goal is build upper body strength. With all that said this 5k obstacle course was a great day. We did it for fun lot time and I even ran part of it. Note to self do not do a strenuous leg workout 2 days before a race lol. I was sore but I did it with my superhero team.

Edited June 29, 2014 by readysetgo611

[naenaern777 345]

Ran 5K yesterday and 4 miles today. Great job catfish you will defenitely get that 10K medal and you always say you don't run fast but I think you do a pretty great job with great time. I hope to be able to get where you are. Readysetgo great job at your event to. It amazes me everyday how far we have all come!!! Happy Sunday all!!!

[readysetg070113 1,476]

Silly me just found out the Spartan sprint a few weeks ago was more like a 10k not a 5 k oopsie the rugged maniac mud run Saturday was a 5k and a I jogged some if it and then did a spin class Sunday my calf is sore but I went to gym today and did upper body work Tom in trying a new kickboxing class lord help me!!! But I'm doing it.

On another note despite a reduced summer work schedule I'm still getting up at 4 to hit the gym for 530 am love my new healthy working out addiction

[catfish87 3,471]

Yesterday was swimming and TRYING to Water ski at the lake....Bahahahaha. I'll have to practice that!!

Today got in a quick short ride on the bike. 18 miles... kinda toasty here in St. Louis today!

90°

Feels like 105°

14 mph S wind

Humidity 71%

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/532010363

[catfish87 3,471]

40 mile bike ride this morning. A VERY relaxing ride today!

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/532436251

Edited July 1, 2014 by catfish87

[SillyAuntDi 1,610]

So, my boxing gym has added 30 minute classes (the regular classes are 60 minutes). I took one yesterday and another today. I think I sweat more during the shorter classes because the intensity is much greater.

And, I can tell the cardio and strengthening is paying off. I took a walk around a local lake this weekend. It was on unpaved trails, up and down hills, over tree roots and through little streams. I had minimal pain in the bum knee and never got so winded that I had to stop. LOVED it!!