Your heaviest weight.

165 heaviest 150 +/- 2 lbs racing weight. 6 feet tall. I honestly have no idea how people gain so much weight. I feel uncomfortable eating too much and have no idea how people do this for every meal every single day. Mind-blowing dedication.

I weighed 142 while running in college. Heaviest guy on team. I got into weighlifting at about 33 and got up to 220 (6 ft.) . Got tired of weighing and eating so much and got back to running and lost 35 pounds in 6 weeks. Went from hardly running to 80 miles a week in 3 weeks.

I was hitting the gym pretty hard when my weight peaked, but I was way over eating as well.

Before I became a runner I weighed nearly 140 pounds on a very slight, 5'5" frame. I looked decidedly chubby. At the peak of my running form at age 33, I weighed 103. I looked like a concentration camp survivor but I was fast. Now, at age 59, I weigh 117 and feel that is a good compromise between running performance and appearance.

amkelley wrote:

Before I became a runner I weighed nearly 140 pounds on a very slight, 5'5" frame. I looked decidedly chubby. At the peak of my running form at age 33, I weighed 103. I looked like a concentration camp survivor but I was fast. Now, at age 59, I weigh 117 and feel that is a good compromise between running performance and appearance.

How many children have you given birth to Mam ?

My GF, now wife, and I were on a trip to Memphis over Labor Day 1990 when I stepped on the scales that give your weight and fortune. She starts laughing and snaps a photo of the pointer at 140 pounds. My fitness was good at the time, I was training and racing well and my bathroom scales were at 120 each morning- plus or minus a pound or two. A few months later in the spring I PR'ed the marathon at 5' 6"/ 118#. Clearly the scales in the restaurant lobby were way off and I say something like 'that will never happen.'

Fast-forward 20-something years with a mortgage, three kids and life stuff. I step a set of digital bathroom scales, read 140 and think back to Memphis. I have since refocused, marathoned at 125# and currently stay at 130 plus or minus a pound or two.

Seriously mate? wrote:

165 heaviest 150 +/- 2 lbs racing weight. 6 feet tall. I honestly have no idea how people gain so much weight. I feel uncomfortable eating too much and have no idea how people do this for every meal every single day. Mind-blowing dedication.

Drinking and eating poorly, coupled with lack of exercise is the easiest way to gain weight. I'm about 6'1" and race well around 155lbs. I stopped running halfway through college and started drinking a lot more. Got up to 200lbs and looked like shit.

Thankfully I quit that garbage, got back to running, and haven't looked back. I can still eat whatever I want, but any drinking puts the weight on quickly.

My fighting weight has always been 153-55, at 6'0". That is what I am right now (~5% bf, 29-inch waist). I got up to 170 last January, my heaviest ever. Age 60.

Up Runner wrote:

My fighting weight has always been 153-55, at 6'0". That is what I am right now (~5% bf, 29-inch waist). I got up to 170 last January, my heaviest ever. Age 60.

29 inch waist you say?

A question you ask?

R. Mossi wrote:

Up Runner wrote:

My fighting weight has always been 153-55, at 6'0". That is what I am right now (~5% bf, 29-inch waist). I got up to 170 last January, my heaviest ever. Age 60.

29 inch waist you say?

Up Runner wrote:

A question you ask?

R. Mossi wrote:

29 inch waist you say?

Proud of my waist, I am.

Waist size/height ratio is the best benchmark of health.

R. Mossi wrote:

Up Runner wrote:

A question you ask?

Proud of my waist, I am.

Up Runner wrote:

Waist size/height ratio is the best benchmark of health.

R. Mossi wrote:

Proud of my waist, I am.

What about qualifying for Boston?

High school racing weight: upper 120's as freshman, 5'9" to upper 130's as a senior, 5'10".

College racing weight: Upper 130's to mid 140's, 5'11"

(215 to 220) lbs. app. nine years ago. I was lifting heavy weights and running less than 10 miles per week.

A few years ago, low 150's. Low 180's today. My most significant exercise is swimming currently. Upper 170's to low 180's is most efficient size for me to swim well. I still run some. Sub-15mn two mile runs.

R. Mossi wrote:

Up Runner wrote:

Waist size/height ratio is the best benchmark of health.

What about qualifying for Boston?

LOL 25 inch waist and 70 inches of height here but I can't break 6 minutes for the mile. Pick another meaningless statistic

I said "health", not "fitness" you obtuse ninny. You may be healthy but it doesn't mean you are intellectually competent enough to enter an adult discussion. Actually, let's be honest and say that you are not.

PortlandXCGirl wrote:

R. Mossi wrote:

What about qualifying for Boston?

LOL 25 inch waist and 70 inches of height here but I can't break 6 minutes for the mile. Pick another meaningless statistic

Sasquatch wrote:

Heaviest you have ever been vs racing weight?

Heaviest: 245lb

Racing weight: 135lb

Height: 5' 8.5"

Up Runner wrote:

I said "health", not "fitness" you obtuse ninny. You may be healthy but it doesn't mean you are intellectually competent enough to enter an adult discussion. Actually, let's be honest and say that you are not.

Says the blithering idiot who believes this is the place for "adult discussions".

Ran a 67 half weighing 147. Now weigh 179 and running 4 in 32 is rough