Fitness Endeavors

If you know me, feel free to skip this section since I realize it is a) repetitive and b) monopolizes many conversations we have.

I am a runner.  

I love running.  

In any season. In any weather.  On any trail.  

Especially on hills. 

I love it all.  

 Indeed, I am a runner.

Growing up, I was always active and played a sport every season since the 4th grade.  I always thought I was a lot better at sports than I really was since I was tall for my age.  Some how, I felt that this made me more gifted.  I was very wrong.  I was lanky and uncoordinated and would get easily frustrated when I made an error.  Which was frequently....  I distinctly remember my first recreational run:  it was sometime in high school.  I just decided to go around my neighborhood.  It was maybe a mile.  I didn't stop.  I just ran.  When I stopped, I felt exhilarated.   For me, running filled that frustrated gap with a plethora of possibility.  I could go ANYWHERE.  I could do ANYTHING.  I could be as fast or slow as my body let me, and I felt FREE. 

It's been a long road since that first run.  Since then, I have gone many a runs:  in the snow, rain, mud, barefoot, up hills, in forests, on tracks, timed, on race courses, getting lost, without a watch, to feel, to escape, to enjoy. 

It's uncanny, the similar feeling of pure exhilaration that ensues after I complete a run as I had finished that first run so many years ago.  

If you haven't stopped reading yet, thanks!  (I can write/read/talk about running ALOT.)  And since that is the case, I have decided to chronicle my running and fitness endeavors!  I hope you join me in my journey as I tackle these events in the next coming months:

• May 5th, 2013 - Cleveland Marathon (5th marathon...)
• June 1st, 2013 - Buckeye Buster 50k (1st attempt at an ultra marathon!)

I hope you join me.  And I hope it's entertaining.  Until then, run on my friends :)