The A2K (virtual) Weight Loss Club !!

Let's just say they're all gone.

Today I'm getting ready for the Cleaning Couple. Mr. Noddy complains bitterly when his physical surroundings are chaotic and I'm taking advantage of his absence to have hired help perform an old-fashioned, deep cleaning to celebrate the end of summer.

At what I'm paying an hour, I want these people to be scrubbing, not shifting decorative clutter. I'm toddling back and forth with stacks of paper and boxes of bric-a-brac.

I may skip the exercycle today.

Pumping Clutter!

George--

You have a way with English as well as with Latin. "Pumping Clutter"--I love it.

George?


Wassup?

Where's George?

Joe(tap, tap, tap)Nation

George is probably celebrating.

There's no sign of him on the Medical thread.

Going to the bellydance studio this afternoon. Free classes this weekend.
Will I survive 3 sets of classes in 1 week?

I finished the 5K in 23:48. That averages out to a respectable 7:40 pace.
But in fact it was a classic case of going out too fast.
At the first mile marker, I looked at my watch. 6:47. Uh-oh.
I did the second mile in 7:34 and the third at a 8:34 clip.
If the race were any longer, I would have walked in.

Awright!!!! Live and learn on the timing thing. Great job, George. Congrats!

George--

I'm beginning to understand that running is a type of art form.

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Maddening.

After I pumped all that clutter out of my life and then into my life, I discovered that the Cleaning Woman had jimmied the balance wheel on the scale. I had a moment of great euphoria followed by the realization that my four pound loss was a mechanical error.

Noddy wrote:



First, well done, George!! I doubt that you would have walked any, but it is an occupational hazard of being in a race that the faster folks kind of drag you along at speeds you wouldn't hazard in practice. Happens to me all the time.

Yes, Noddy, running is an art form, but it is not fully recognized as such. They, runners and the folks who supervise the races, are always lauding after who? The ones who ran the fastest, right? But, in the words of the Peggy Lee tune, Is that All There Is?

Shouldn't there be a medal for the finisher with the best style?
Shouldn't there be a "Most Improbable Finisher" category?
How about they run races like car rallys? You predict your finishing average time and the closest to their guess gets an extra t-shirt.
Something.

I'm trying hard now to be a very good ten minute miler. Three miles, five miles, eight miles or ten miles, I can average about 10:30s, but I want to be able to coast along at six miles a hour. If someone could do that at various distances 5K, 10K and 15K say, wouldn't that be something to be honored for?

Joe( How about wettest tee-shirt or the driest one.)Nation

Good work George!

I think entering and starting a race is the most challenging part. Finishing it is a bonus - and ya done good!

Good for you, George! How's the recovery going?

Thanks for all the kind words!

The "special prize" in our little town race ought to go to a gentlemen
named Charles Fucci. Charles came in last at at an estimated 51 minutes.
The time is estimated because by that time the timing equipment had been taken down. Charles is 82 and wears a neck brace. I saw him
striding valiantly down Main St. as I was walking home.

Im eating better than I have ever done yet I feel stupider than I have ever felt.
I thought good food was meant to help brain power!!

Beth: Is this you in your current Avatar? If so, you've lost a lot of weight indeed since the last New York pictures. Good for you!

It's me all right. In my old glasses. Apparently they're more flattering than the more current pair. I guess I need to put new lenses into the old frames

Seriously, I do weigh hmmm about 20% less than this time last year. It's more noticeable in some settings/photos/angles than others.

Maybe the nametag stuck over my mouth helps?

ehBeth--

A name tag stuck over your mouth makes eating a challenge.

Joe--

Your scoring system sounds like an Old Fashioned Foot Race combined with a Library Best Pet Show and a box of Crackerjack.