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Prior to my bariatric surgery I was walking 5K per day. Post operation (2nd week) and I'm building up my walking again with commuting to walk. Looking at running my first 5K by autumn 2018.

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hilanic

Well done you, it’s great you are walking so far after such major surgery! Keep us up to date with progress!

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cooksta72 in reply to hilanic

Will do!

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Well done.. are you on the Active 10 site.. that could be useful to get you going again:)

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cooksta72 in reply to Oldfloss

No, which site is that?

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Tasha99Graduate

Fantastic! Well done 💪🏽

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cooksta72 in reply to Tasha99

Thanks!

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StudentNurseeGraduate

Well done! Cannot be an easy thing to do after bariatric surgery! I take my hat off to you 😁

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cooksta72

Thank you

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