I’m in the military and this morning we did a 7.5 mile ruck march (was supposed to be 8 but just like her 8k ours was cut a little short). Even after adding my weighted vest and bag to my own body weight, she is still double my weight. I finished it in 1 hr 40 min (about 10 min slower than my usual pace too) which I believe is about an hour shorter than it took her to do this under 5 mile route. We have to do a 5 mile run for one of our yearly physical tests in under 40 min.
Now like I said even with added weight I’m still far lighter than her and I know what a relief it can be to take those added pounds right off at the end of our ruck march which she can’t do. But I don’t say that in sympathy for her because she brings it on herself. She says she doesn’t want to lose the weight and somehow tries to convince herself that it’s not affecting her health but then makes a spectacle out of slowly walking less than 8k.
That’s the problem with that kind of attitude. She thinks if her blood work is healthy (and I’d be curious to where her a1c is now) that means she is healthy overall but isn’t thinking about how often that added weight is tearing at her joints and wearing down her bones/muscle, putting strain on her organs, etc. Two of the most common injuries in the military are back and knees and one of the biggest causes of that is the added weight we are constantly carrying on our bodies. Which we can take off yet it still can easily take its toll. I can tell the difference in my body’s physical ability after just gaining 10-20 lbs when I get lazy and eat badly/don’t work out enough, let alone her 200+ lbs extra. I don’t understand how she can watch her own show and not see or ignore how much harm she is doing to herself and how unhealthy her body is.
Oh and as a former medic, I don’t believe for a second that she has plantar fasciitis but rather she decided to quick look up something to blame for when she couldn’t physically handle the race.