<p>MOWC, I was smiling. Big time.</p>
<p>Congats!</p>
<p>Awesome, Sabaray! Congrats!</p>
<p>This is reminding me. I need to hit the trail before it gets dark outside.</p>
<p>Congratulations, Sabaray!</p>
<p>Unbelievable! Think about where you started when you created this thread five years ago. Just amazing! </p>
<p>I was thinking about you all day! I am VERY proud of you and you did terrific! That is supposed to be a great race and I hope to do it someday. It sounds like it went perfectly.</p>
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<p>That’s to be expected for almost ANY marathon!</p>
<p>I love your story - one of the best days of your life - so, so glad that that is your story!</p>
<p>I agree with the legacy of this thread - look where that first post got you. It’s an amazing journey. </p>
<p>Have some dessert after that burger and sleep well tonight. 
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<p>Sabaray, don’t let that feeling ever leave you. congratulations!</p>
<p>Sabaray I’m so happy for you and congratulations on a great time too! I love that you said it was one of the best days of your life. Enjoy your recovery!</p>
<p>Basement for me. Slingin’ some weights around. Highlights were the half kneeling cable chops (core exercise), KB swings, and alternating DB bench press.</p>
<p>The swings felt really strong with the 50 lb KB. Those things really gas me, though. Definitely a “whole body” exercise!</p>
<p>Sabaray, please take some time to rest after your big run! Your body will appreciate the downtime and will use it to heal and get stronger. Congrats again!!!</p>
<p>With the holidays approaching, many of us start thinking about all the extra pounds we could end up
with after Jan 1st. Here is a pretty good article about folks who dread the upcoming weight gain and will power testing:</p>
<p><a href=“The Max Amount of Weight You Could Realistically Gain in One Day”>The Max Amount of Weight You Could Realistically Gain in One Day;
<p>Any thoughts on this study?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.philly.com/philly/health/topics/HealthDay693724_20141115_Running_Won_t_Raise_Risk_of_Knee_Arthritis__Study_Says.html”>http://www.philly.com/philly/health/topics/HealthDay693724_20141115_Running_Won_t_Raise_Risk_of_Knee_Arthritis__Study_Says.html</a></p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>What a great recap sabaray! So very happy for you!</p>
<p>I liked reading the article because it sounds like good news, just don’t know how much stock I should put in it. </p>
<p>I guess I would believe it with respect to knee arthritis. In my almost 40 years of running I would conclude that while knee injuries certainly occur, they don’t seem to be chronic conditions in most runners. </p>
<p>Wow! Sabaray, I am just gobsmacked at what you have done! We haven’t been in contact for a while so for me to see this today…well, it’s just amazing! You have done a truly remarkable thing…I love ‘one of the best days of my life’! </p>
<p>While that article doesn’t go too in-depth it seems to speak confidently that regular running is not the “recipe” for bad knees - or arthritic knees. You could maybe find a more detailed report online that would list more details. </p>
<p>Making me wonder - I come from a family of football playing guys who were riddled with knee issues all their life. Are there other high impact sports that lend themselves to knee injury specifically? Is biking better/worse on the knees than weight bearing running??? All good questions.</p>
<p>I’m of two minds on the knee issue. On one hand, I notice a lot of dramatically overweight, sedentary folks seem to have knee trouble. As someone who resembles/resembled that remark, I can tell you that dropping 40 lbs dramatically reduced my knee pain in the one that the dashboard of a '56 super chef ate at a clocked 125 mph in my reckless youth ;)</p>
<p>On the other hand, my very well-regarded osteo surgeon (Harvard trained and all that) quite seriously blamed my early facet joint syndrome (wherein there were five joints with bone spur overgrowth in the channel) on my competitive-soccer-defense history decades prior. He said he literally usually only saw that condition in a) men over 40 who b) played defense in football or hockey, but the pattern was uniformly consistent with the repetitive impact of those sports. He certainly gave me the impression that repeated high impact can lead to spurs.</p>
<p>Which makes me think of a friend, a multi-time Boston marathoner, fit as a fiddle, who this year had surgery to remove bone spurs from hs knee. While there ay be no connection whatsoever between his running and the knee issue, it does make you wonder if there may be.</p>
<p>I think the bottom line is if you had the option of being fat with knee pain, or regularly running and as a result staying fit with knee pain…,what’s the better lifestyle that suits you? Of course, there’s a place in the middle that I try to balance with low impact work because I already have serious arthritis. And I can tell you that while I matched Sabaray’s weightloss for the first 30 lbs, she rocketed ahead when she habituated running 
which kinda says something about the path to me ;)</p>
<p>(Sabaray, I had a nap after the girls pj party while you were running your marathon and I literally had a dream where I was running our country concession, pain free, thinner, and loving the exhilaration…I was in awe when I woke up and wondered if I was channelling you or something )</p>
<p>So I guess what I’m saying is whatever the long term consequences might be of doing something active you love may be, they are likely equally weighted on the corollary :)</p>
<p>I’m having an interesting day. I decided to go to the beach to do my 10 mile run and as I walk out the door, there is a statue of a dalmatian dog on my front lawn… um, WTH :o3 ? </p>
<p>After my run I’m doing my usual stretches, and a homeless beach guy comes up and starts stretching with me. Then a guy with 10 parrots (I counted) hanging on him comes up and decides to join us. At this point I decided it was time to go home. </p>