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Ah the smell of asphalt….
Well, here goes nothing. I signed (ok, well my Wife really did) up for the Walt Disney marathon in January of 09′
Why? you may ask, I dunno it seemed like a good thing at the time…I suppose.
I haven’t run much (hardly at all) and I am going to give this a try.
Here’s the background to this whole debacle…
I have been dieting since April or so. All has gone fairly well. (40 lbs lost) But, I am still fairly heavy (227 lbs). The problem I seem to incure at this very point of my dieting (ok lifestyle change), Is that I start stalling on my diet… I sit at about the same weight for a month or so, which is very frustrating. So I was comptemplating how to get past this part and be victorious…
Well, I have run in the past and thought I could start exercising (which I haven’t done during this diet yet)…so I decided to run a time or two…short runs of a mile or two, but not much.
Ahem.
My father in law announced that he was going to run this loverly Marathon at Disney world in January. He has run marathons in the past…(quite a while ago). And of course my Wife pipes in with the fact that I should go run in it too…..huh?
Now, I ran a half marathon before and it wasn’t too bad…( I actually thought I could’ve ran the whole marathon)
But, I’m fat…and I haven’t run much………*sigh*
I agreed to do it… I think it will motivate me to continue to run and get in shape. (do I have any other choice?)…So I thought starting a blog about this whole experience would be a good way to track how I have done and how I am doing….
So…here goes
My first run will be tonight…I shall report later.
