(on my 28th B-Day in Iraq)After I left the Army I really lost all motivation to keep in shape and really let myself go. At my worst I was about 270 lbs. and really doing no exercise at all.
(at around 275 in 2010)It felt there there was always a good reason to put off getting started for one reason or another. Luckely my amazing wife finally managed to get me back into running about a year ago now. Running was something that I hated at first but slowely but surely grew on me. The biggest step would come right around Christmas in 2011 when my Sister-in-law mentioned that she had decided that for her 30th birthday she was going to be running the American River 50 Ultra Marathon. For some crazy reason this sounded like a great idea to me so I agreed to join her and the training began. I spent the next 5 months training as much as possible and on April 7th I completed the my first 50 miler in 12:29.
(Pam and I showing off our finishers jackets)I hope that this was only the begining and we will see how it goes from here.
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