Any Runners On Here??

[Flying_Monkey]

I'm generally 10 stone (+/- a pound)

I'm currently about 62kg (almost 136.5 lbs or 9 stone 10 1/2). I'm aiming to be 60kg (132lbs or 9 stone 6). At my lightest, when I was cycling more seriously (and younger!), I was 57.5kg (126.5lbs or just over 9 stone). I'll never be that again.

 

[Ollie W]

I'm currently 126kg, fair amount to lose hence my trepidation at the ParkRun! Will see if the viral cough I've had clears for tomorrow.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I'm currently about 62kg (almost 136.5 lbs or 9 stone 10 1/2). I'm aiming to be 60kg (132lbs or 9 stone 6). At my lightest, when I was cycling more seriously (and younger!), I was 57.5kg (126.5lbs or just over 9 stone). I'll never be that again.

A fee years ago (2005-ish??), when I'd been off the bike for a while, due to work/birth of daughter/etc... I'd ballooned to 12 stone
I had to do something about it, so got back on the bike & was mega-strict with myself food-wise
I've been tee-total since passing my driving test (in 1983), so that was one less bad source to cut out

Anyway, I lost 3 stone in 3 months!

It was annoying for my wife, as she worked at the Hospital too, at the time & she got fed-up of staff asking her if I was alright/was anything the matter, due to the rapid weight-loss
At the end of it, I touched 8st 13!

Since then, I've managed to keep weight down to around '10', barring putting a few pounds on, after a holiday in Florida - the intention was to run whilst there, but due to injury I couldn't, & sadly over-indulged

Out of curiosity, I got weighed before writing this, as I usually go on scales once a week (Monday AM), I was 9stone 12Ib

 

[Ian A]

I'm sat around 71KG at the moment, 5'7". I'm not a slim build which is my excuse . Hoping to get down to 68kg in the next five weeks before going to the Alpes. A two week taper should help. I do a much better weight loss when I'm not training much. I'm new to the consistent amount of training I'm doing at the moment so I probably eat too much for what I'm doing but at the same time if I eat too little it would be worse.

When we had our third child I managed to get up to 95KG .

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Well, I'm down to 61.5kg after a week of more concentrated diet and exercise (the aim is to lose 0.5kg a week for 4 weeks). So that's a good start. I ran a measured 15km and a tempo 6.5km over the weekend. Going to concentrate on speedwork (intervals) in the coming two weeks leading up to my mile race.

 

[Ian A]

Do you mind me asking what height you guys are? I'm thinking my leanest target if I were to be very disciplined would be around 65kg at the absolute minimum. I don't have the endurance athlete lean build and weight is a tricky issue. I can certaibly lose more from where I am at the moment and plan to be very disciplined with food after IM Wales when I plan to have a month of very light training and lots of sleep to see where I end up. I lose weight better when I'm training in less as and seem to judge my requirements better without a heavy training load.

 

[smutchin]

Well, I'm about 175cm (5'9"-ish) so a little taller than you and my target weight would be 64kg. But it's an elusive target and I don't have the self-discipline to achieve it.

It gets harder to keep the weight off once you're past 40. That's my excuse. 70kg is still a "healthy" weight for me, it's just not an "athletic" weight. As FM says, just an extra few kg can easily add a minute to your 5km time.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Do you mind me asking what height you guys are?

About 5'8", or, 5'9"

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I'm only 5'5"...

 

[User169]

Having run under 40min for 10km, I thought I'd made a bit of a break-through, but the next 10km was a disaster. It was hot and I felt dehydrated from the off. I ended up running behind someone I knew was pretty swift (too swift for me) and was knackered after 4km, so stopped after the first oftwo 5km loops. The time wasn't so bad, 19:45, but there's no way I could have kept that up for another 5km. My next two runs were both pretty slow too, so I took a week off and managed a 40:30 10km at the weekend which felt a lot better.

I'm 5'10'' and 76kg. Probably a bit porky for running. In my 20s, I was under 65kg and could run 10km under 37min.

 

[Ian A]

Thanks, I think I'm suffering from being too fat for too many years and my upper body/ribcage grew into it(?). I think the best way to describe me is rotund torso and/or hunchbacked . I'm lean enough to have visible stomach muscles (a bit) but could certainly loose plenty more weight. I don't think I'll make it down to the low 60s without amputating something. I still get beaten by plenty of people who are much bigger than me. That would be the training!

 

[Ian A]

I'm only 5'5"...

Pretty certain there's no such thing as "only" when it comes to height. You're the same height as my dad and it works for him .

Well, I'm about 175cm (5'9"-ish) so a little taller than you and my target weight would be 64kg. But it's an elusive target and I don't have the self-discipline to achieve it.

It gets harder to keep the weight off once you're past 40. That's my excuse. 70kg is still a "healthy" weight for me, it's just not an "athletic" weight. As FM says, just an extra few kg can easily add a minute to your 5km time.

Indeed. I knocked 16min off my half marathon PB when I lost an additional 2 stone. Worked a treat! I'm hoping to keep my weight down where it is long term. Definitely harder as you get older if you're a food fan.

 

[Ollie W]

I don't feel so bad for finishing my first Parkrun in 41:41 now! Clearly I've got to lose about 50kg to have a chance :P

 

[Ian A]

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I don't feel so bad for finishing my first Parkrun in 41:41 now! Clearly I've got to lose about 50kg to have a chance :P

You'll feel even better when you go faster next time .

 

[Ollie W]

Here's hoping! I wasn't last but had to walk intermittently between 2 and 3km and then from 3-4.25ish because my right leg decided to give up the ghost like I'd got shin splints or something. I'm three minutes off the next slowest on Strava so that's the first goal. It was annoying because I wasn't actually aerobically tired until I decided to grin and bear it through the last 400m or so to at least look half decent in front of the crowds!