The Start of a Journey

So this will be home base for my thoughts and progress with my fitness and training for my first half marathon.

To give a little background: On February 8th of 2010 I decided that I needed to make a lifestyle change for my health and to make sure I had a future where I was alive long enough to watch my family grow and I could play an active part. As of September 24th of 2010, I have lost 110 pounds and feel the best I have since graduating high school. During my transformation I had a conversation with a co-worker and we talked about how cool it would be to run a half marathon. I decided that completing a half marathon was a perfect goal that aligned rather well with my health and lifestyle goals. So on June 14th of 2010 I started to work toward that goal.

I wanted to establish this blog to go through some of the things I have done in terms of diet and exercise and the struggles and victories I have gone through. My hope is to motivate not only myself to stay on track (or get back on track depending on the day) but to possibly motivate others who read this to follow their own health and fitness goals.

Feel free to let me know what you think, let me know what is working for you, or just how you are doing.

Enjoy.