What's on Your (photo) Friday Menu, RNYers?

mamata2
on 9/4/15 8:43 am

Yes, triathlons were my secret dream!  I did one pre-surgery, a sprint, that I walked the entire run.  I was hooked but everytime I tried to train I got hurt and quit.  Now I train with a smile on my face.  I am thankful every time I run, bike or swim that my body allows me to do this.  I don't know if I will ever do a full Ironman but it is my not-so-secret dream.  I would also like to run a Disney Marathon.  It's amazing what the gift of surgery has given us!!  

Thank you and you are an INSPIRATION TOO!  You want to do a tri?  I'll come to Canada!

Daisydoo02
on 9/4/15 9:11 am - GTA, Ontario, Canada
RNY on 11/15/13

Wow can't believe you did a tri pre surgery, even walking!! Want to know what I did pre surgery in the form of exercise... NOTHING. Thinking about exercise made my brain hurt. LOL LOL LOL

Ok SERIOUSLY... I have talked to my hubby about doing the Disney marathon.  I am so IN!! I think I am going to aim for 2017.  As you know I am Canadian and our dollar right now sucks, to spend the money to go down to the US is pretty expensive for us, so although I want to go next year in 2016, might have to wait until 2017.  We might have to make some plans and have our families come and have a meet & greet & run at Disney!  If it wasn't for the Canadian dollar right now I would have signed up for the Disney run and the Las Vegas run for 2016!!

And yes I would love to do a tri, but honestly it scares me.  I am pretty sure its a major mental block I have.  I was a huge swimmer as a kid, so the swimming part does not scare me, as a teenager I used to bike everywhere and so the biking part does not scare me, its the running.  I am new to running and I get this anxiety every time I run.  This is what goes through my head as I am putting my runners on "are people looking at me, do I look slow, am I jiggling all over, how is my pace, OMG I am sweating like a pig, are people thinking why is that girl running, she looks stupid."  Yes all those thoughts overwhelm me when I go out for a run.  Its madness, but its there.  I blast my tunes trying to drown out the fat girl inside me that says I can't do it. Ok enough of that look into my crazy mind!  

Let me mull it over, but we need to hook up for a run or something.  You are in Syracuse, is that right?  I need to get NCAA tickets for my hubby there and come and visit!!

The surgery does feel like a gift, one I am beyond thankful for.

mamata2
on 9/4/15 9:15 am

I am actually in Madison, Wisconsin but I go to Ann Arbor, Michigan every year for a women's only tri which isn't too far from Toronto??

stacyrg
on 9/4/15 10:48 am
VSG on 05/12/14

Disney 2017 is a great plan!  I would totally run a Disney race with you guys!!

        

stacyrg
on 9/4/15 10:46 am
VSG on 05/12/14

Come to california and do a Disney run with me!!!  This is Disneyland half marathon weekend and I'm so sad I'm not running. Maybe next year!!

        

mamata2
on 9/4/15 10:48 am

Don't tempt me!!  You may have a house guest next year ;)

stacyrg
on 9/4/15 11:20 am
VSG on 05/12/14

Come on out to CA!  As long as you don't mind sharing with a Siberian husky, there's plenty of room!

lcraver
on 9/4/15 8:44 am - Knightdale, NC
RNY on 03/02/15

You ARE the Iron Girl!!  You look wonderful... 

Highest weight - 440 lbs, Surgery weight - 395 lbs, Current weight - 291 lbs.

    
mamata2
on 9/4/15 8:45 am

Too bad I can't cheange my screen name ;)  Thank you!

Navychic
on 9/6/15 10:57 pm
RNY on 02/09/15

Didn't grim & sparklekitty & a couple others just chg there the other day to add "hag" to their screen names... I was wondering if it was possible also...

I'm Jo   HW 245, SW 236, CW 151 Yeah (Normal BMI!!!!)

M1=213 (-23), M2=201 (-12), M3=186 (-15), M4=175(-11), M5=166(-9), M6=157(-9), M7=153(-4) 

        

    

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