I don't post too often, but was too excited to keep quiet! My boyfriend and I ran our first half marathon this Saturday.

My bf ran his in 2 hrs 20 min. I ran mine in 3 hrs 15 min, with a stop to assess a lady who had been in a car accident on the road.

I am psyched and signed up for the mini marathon for the Indy 500 in May. I am REALLY looking forward to keeping up all the good work I have done.

Great time, keep up the training and you will do well.

Way to go

Congrats!! what an accomplishment..

Awesome! Congratulations!!!

Thanks guys! It's been very discouraging to work out for the last year and just maintain my loss so far. I really want to break through this plateau and get the last 20 lbs off.

In the meantime, running the race gives me a feeling of success in the meantime. Life is good!

WOW! That is amazing - congratulations. I am incredibly impressed by all of you distance runners. I simply do not have the mental (or physical) stamina for it.

You know, when I look back at it... it was easier to learn to go the distance. The HARD part was training my mind to tell myself that I could do it!

Congratulations Diary!!!!! finisishing that 13.1 is quite a feeling. You're awesome!!

Way to go!!!

(dance party in your honor )

Congrats! I'm running my first this Sunday! I'm super excited. On the weight loss front, you may have been running too much to lose weight. I lost a measly 5 lbs while I was training for my half and those five pretty much came off these last two weeks during my tapering. So less milage = more weight loss. A lot of people maintain or gain when training.

Again great job!

If anything, I think I was undertrained for the half. I have been about the same weight for a year now. While it is a lot better than where I started, it's definitely not where I would like to be forever.

The long runs definitely improved my lipid profile though. I was really happy about that. Now that I think about it, I did gain about 2 lbs while training. Right now, I am working to break through this plateau so that I can be lighter for the next race!

I will have to be aware when I start training for the mini in May.

Ncuneo, good luck running your first full! I think I might have to do a full, but it's going to be possibly years of training trying to get faster. I don't want to be out there for 6+ hours working to get it done!

Outstanding!