Hello All, I had my vsg done on 01-17-11 so a mere 9 months ago and my new years resolution at the beginning of this year was to complete a half marathon. Yes running 13.1 miles on purpose is my goal for 2011. Well its official i finish my first half marathon today in Long Beach California. My official time was 2:25:35 which is a 11:07 average minute mile. My goal was to be under 2:30 and I made it with over 4 minutes to spare. I have always been envious of runners and my entire life I have wanted to be one. Never in my wildest bdream would I ever imagine that I would be running marathons (or should I say half marathons). I have never been this proud of my self ever and now I know that I am unstoppable once I put my mind to something. My next goal is getting to my personal goal weight which is 149 which is only about 11-12 pounds away, I am hoping to hit before my 1 year anniversary on January 17th. After that I want to conquer a full marathon which is 26.2 miles, I am thinking of Maui Hawaii in September 2012. If I believe it and I can see it then I can do it. I attached a couple of pictures from today.

Thanks,

Jenn

Wow! Congratulations. What an accomplishment.

Wow that's so inspirational! You look fantastic

Well, I have three things to say about this...

1, I am well envoius of the location.

2, I am very envious of your achievement

and

3, I am proper envious of your figure.... you look AMAZIN'!!

Congratulations on a fantastic NSV... you'll do the full marathon no problems... can't wait to read that post, well I will probably hear the excitment from over the podn...lol =]

WOW. What a motivational post! Congratulations on achieving your goals--I know you'll be blasting out the remaining few pounds before your surgiversary, if that's what you want--you clearly have the discipline and the drive to do whatever you feel like doing! Way to go!!

CONGRATS! That is amazing! By the way Creativeteach was there as well and finished too

Unstoppable, indeed! You have acheived so much and, yes, you should be proud. Congratulations!

WHOOOHOOOO!!!! CONGRATS!!!! That's a HUGE milestone!!! Best wishes on your Marathon!!!

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WOW!!!

Congratulations!!! I am so happy for you! We had our surgery 2 weeks apart. I started on a softball league. It is just flat out amazing the stuff we can do that seemed impossible just 9 months ago!!!

YAY!!!!

WOW! Outstanding great NSV moment.

Hello All, I had my vsg done on 01-17-11 so a mere 9 months ago and my new years resolution at the beginning of this year was to complete a half marathon. Yes running 13.1 miles on purpose is my goal for 2011. Well its official i finish my first half marathon today in Long Beach California. My official time was 2:25:35 which is a 11:07 average minute mile. My goal was to be under 2:30 and I made it with over 4 minutes to spare. I have always been envious of runners and my entire life I have wanted to be one. Never in my wildest bdream would I ever imagine that I would be running marathons (or should I say half marathons). I have never been this proud of my self ever and now I know that I am unstoppable once I put my mind to something. My next goal is getting to my personal goal weight which is 149 which is only about 11-12 pounds away, I am hoping to hit before my 1 year anniversary on January 17th. After that I want to conquer a full marathon which is 26.2 miles, I am thinking of Maui Hawaii in September 2012. If I believe it and I can see it then I can do it. I attached a couple of pictures from today.

Thanks,

Jenn

Wow! Congrats! You truly are and inspiration. I'm gonna get up off my butt and be a half marathon runner too!

Wow Jen! Amazing! Soooo excited for you!

That's awesome. I hope I can do the same next year at the Disney Half Marathon. That is such an amazing NSV. Congrats!

You inspire me; I have always wanted to complete a marathon. I have my surgery Nov. 9 and hopefully this time next year I will be doing the same thing. Thank you so much for sharing and being an inspiration. You look amazing and congratulations.

THAT IS AWESOME!!! Congrats on your finish too- that aint no joke!