Sunday, 27 April 2008

• On Tuesday night in my class, we redid the run we did six weeks ago.  If you recall, I did 27 back and forths.  It was great.  I was on a high with 27, knowing I was only 2 laps behind the rest of the class.  Hey - it's a lot of work moving this big body around.
  
  So, like I was saying, we did them again.  I 'upped' my laps by one.  The magic number is 28.  I think this class has been good 'training' if I can call it that for more of my extra curricular activities that I have been doing.
  
  Yesterday, I did a 5k run/walk with Venessa.  It was awesome.  Here is the post that I just put up on CLB Yahoo Group:
  
  

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  I was banded 3 1/2 years ago by Dr. Yau at the Forrest Hill Clinic.
  I am 5'10, at the time weighed over 360lbs, and I was 24 years old.
  
  Once banded, a lot of things changed in my life. My goals had
  changed, my overall focus in life had changed... I lost 80lbs my
  first year. I was able to see collar bones, and a glimpse here and
  there of my knees. I was able to sit in metal office chairs with the
  arm rests (the ones from the 1980's that every office owned at one
  time) and not get bruises on my hips or my thighs.
  
  I am able to see the car seat between my legs. I walk up flights of
  stairs without having to stop, or when I got to the top, I am able to
  breathe normally. I am able to shop at Old Navy (not pants yet - I
  have big hips!). My winter coats don't fit anymore.
  
  Sure, numbers are great. It's nice to see the scale going down. But
  what is really important is to log your Non Scale Victories, too.
  
  I am now 28 years old, still 5'10, and weigh about 230lbs. Since
  January, I have lost 20lbs. After being banded for 3 1/2 years, the
  weightloss slows down, but it can still happen.
  
  But really, that is not the reason I am writing (since I don't write
  very often).
  
  Yesterday morning, I entered a 5k run/walk. I walked the entire 5k
  in 49 minutes. It probably would have been 45 if I didn't stop
  to 'photolog' my route. Not only did I do it in 49 minutes, but I
  stayed at the front of the pack. Most of the people that were there
  finished about 20 - 30 minutes behind me.
  
  Screw the numbers. Sometimes it's important to see where you were,
  and how far you've come.
  
  Hope all is well out there on the band wagon,
  melissa
  oct28/04

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  49 minutes!  WOHOO!  I am thinking about doing 1-2 5k's a month, based on the entrance fee.  Yesterday, it was $35, and the fee went to Earth Day Hamilton (we also got a not so fancy t-shirt, and were able to plant trees along Cootes Paradise in Hamilton).  There is the Rankin Run in St. Kitts that I am doing on the last weekend of May, and there is the Bell Walk for Kids Help Phone (although, you have to raise $100 to get a shirt)...
  
  Anyway, I am still proud of my 49 minutes... there is no way I could have done that 3 1/2 years ago...
  
  

   

   

  (this is us about 4km through the walk... the people in the background were not part of the walk, they were just leisure walkers.  if you're on my facebook, you'll be able to see more)
  
  
  
  

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