Mothers and their fanatical devotion to their children's fictional miraculous success stories...brings a tear to the eye, doesn't it...

And Just Who says you aint a sculpted goddess?
Remember - more areobic activity - running if you can, riding if you cant and walking if you cant do that - fast, faster, fastest until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death..

Areobic activity? What's that? :)

Think Andrew might be preaching to the converted there...

I think, if you're being granted the credit for running a marathon, you should take it (with a modest smile)... I shall never run a marathon. I can say this with perfect confidence.

Your performance reminds me of an old Sydney City to Surf joke. The setting is the finish line of a marathon where a novice runner/marathoner is hobbling away. A grizzled old marathoner looks at him and says 'you will feel a lot worse tomorrow,' he pauses and then says, 'but the really bad news is that in about 3 days you are going to think you had fun today.'

Funny story.

That's like when you mentino that you've run (or will run) a triathlon and people assume that triathlon = ironman distance, and if you don't do an ironman, then it's not "a real triathlon." The other classic is when you are training for a marathon and people ask something like: "Oh, you're running the Chicago marathon? how long is that one?"

Ah, well, I guess I shouldn't expect everyone to be up with this stuff.

Also, unfortunately, running a marathon isn't enough to make everyone look like a sculpted goddess; I've run 2 and been able to maintain (not on purpose) my fleshy figure.

your comments hate me, I give up