This is such and awesome team!!!! I'm glad I belong
Good job everyone. BTW, don't push too hard on that hip flexor, IronZ...it is ok to slack off to heal.
I joined a running club this weeks and it has really helped my mileage (but not my sleep so much because we meet at 5:30) My totals for the week are 15.9 miles (WOW) and 2 hours 51 minutes! I'm so excited about my distance! The Azalea Trail Run (10k) is at the end of the month and I'm ready. I want to finish in under an hour, although I'll have to book it.
One question, team. I'm 5'6" and weigh around 195. In other words, I'm short and fat (and thanks to a razor, you can throw in bald, too). I don't look like I can run nearly 16 miles in a week. At my age (39), I know its tougher to lose weight than in your 20's, but, when am I going to start loosing. It's getting a little discouraging.
Have a great week, everyone and keep moving!!!!!
Good job everyone. BTW, don't push too hard on that hip flexor, IronZ...it is ok to slack off to heal. I joined a running club this weeks and it has really helped my mileage (but not my sleep so much because we meet at 5:30) My totals for the week are 15.9 miles (WOW) and 2 hours 51 minutes! I'm so excited about my distance! The Azalea Trail Run (10k) is at the end of the month and I'm ready. I want to finish in under an hour, although I'll have to book it.
One question, team. I'm 5'6" and weigh around 195. In other words, I'm short and fat (and thanks to a razor, you can throw in bald, too). I don't look like I can run nearly 16 miles in a week. At my age (39), I know its tougher to lose weight than in your 20's, but, when am I going to start loosing. It's getting a little discouraging.
Have a great week, everyone and keep moving!!!!!
those miles and hours are outrageous. I work in gyms all day long and don't have the time to put those miles and hours in. Unbelievable!!!! Do you work at the gym...saw you were training somebody? Another fellow fitness instructor maybe? 
Don't push yourself too hard and listen to your body. Remember, you've already put in tons of training, you want to get to the starting line as healthy as possible.
I've just kind of stopped focusing on the scale and the numbers, and more on how I feel, both when running and in general. Keep putting in those great miles and you'll keep seeing improvement. I figure as long as I can go out there and churn out a 1/2, full, or this past year a Goofy, I am reasonably healthy, no matter what the BMI calculator tells me. But, hey, I will keep my fingers crossed for both of us that the scale moves in he right direction sooner or later!
Once it gets a little warmer, I am hoping to hang up the car keys for anything under 5 miles (and that doesn't involve passengers and/or bulky packages) and just walk or bike most places.
That is fantastic. Think what we have done as a team. Over 2000 miles in 6 weeks! Most people wouldn't do that in a year. (I have a friend that wouldn't do that in a decade
.) 
I went to the track after work and was limping before I made one lap. Then it started raining and snowing, so I bailed and didn't even try to at least walk a mile (for even numbers, ya know!). I'm getting a bit discouraged, but will see a PT guy on Monday for it. 
