Why???

I am "stealing" a question from another blog. The question was "Why do you run?" Well that got me thinking. Why do I run? There are many reasons why I decided to run. So rather than take up a lot of space to answer, I thought I would turn to my own blog to answer.

After being very overweight for the majority of my adult life, and still being overweight even after losing over 100 pounds, I wanted a "different" way to take off the rest of my weight. The first part of my weight loss journey was taken the conventional albeit hard way. I ate less and moved more. I lifted weights 3 days a week and did cardio 3 days a week. Yes I had times when I didn't exercise and I ate all the crap that had me labeled as morbidly obese(wow that is the first time I have ever said or thought about the fact that I was morbidly obese). But the thing that was different this time and made this attempt at weight loss work, was that even when I fell off the wagon I got back up and got right back on track. I was looking at the health/fitness magazines and all of the women with the awesome bodies had some running in their fitness regime. I wanted/want that body.

So I wanted a different "workout". I would never have dreamed that I could run. I had attempted to run a treadmill once and felt like I sounded like a heard of elephants and that everyone in the gym was watching me. To this day I avoid the treadmill like the plague!!!! I LOVE to run outside. I LOVE the way I feel when I am running, the way I feel after I have run. I even LOVE the sweaty smelly clothes that I have to wash after a run!!!! :) I also LOVE what running is doing to/for my body. It may not be changes that everyone can see yet, but I am noticing the changes and hopefully everyone else will soon!

New Year---New Blog

OK, so this is a first for me!! I have NEVER blogged before, but I figured that if even one person follows this blog, then that is one more person I am accountable too!!! So this is going to be a report of my Journey to getting thin!!!! Along this journey I am going to run myself thin.

This blog will chronicle my adventures in life as I "learn" to run. Since the summer of 2009, I have completed a sprint triathlon, a Fight for Air climb up the Bank of America Building in Orlando, a Turkey Trot 5K, a Mistletoe Trot 5K and a Reindeer Run 5K. My ultimate goal is to complete a Marathon and a full Triathlon by the time I am 40 years old. In October 2009 I turned 38 years old. So I have a full year and a half to train for this. So here goes...................