Never 320 Again

Running, it’s my life.

There was a time when the refrigerator, and online gaming was my life. My life would literally revolve around waking up, making myself breakfast, and sitting in front of my television-sized monitor playing Everquest. Breaks were the worst. While on holiday from school, it was not uncommon for me to not see the light of day, to taste fresh air, because my taste buds were too busy with the overly processed binge-eating business they had become so accustomed.

Now, I wake up in the morning, make myself breakfast and think to myself, “Where is my run going to take me today?” Two years ago, I would have never even attempted the 10 mile run that was my accidental over-the-top long run on Sunday (one that also met @Nike’s #hangoverchallenge and started @FatgirlvsWorld’s #gotheDist 2012 edition).

Yesterday, I was recovering from my long run, and was scheduled for another long run (remember, my Sunday long run was accidental) thanks to my Nike+ Half Marathon training regimen. I swapped out the long run for a short run, and took off. With my exhausted Achilles, and after running 10 miles, I would have NEVER run yesterday.

I’m going to keep going, keep pushing myself, and Nike+ is going to help me with that– this is a new level of my journey, its not just my weight loss, but its more of a lifestyle now…

Its amazing the limitations weight puts on you. I went from being a couch potato, 320 pound, morbidly obese 19-year-old kid, to a 21 year old, almost college graduate, runner (or athlete as I have been recently referred to as by many people).

I guess it’s the lifestyle of an :pause: athlete… is that what I am now? How can I go from being Obese to being an athlete? I guess this will be a blog post later.

2012 is going to be a pretty amazing year. I’m going to kick ass, and reach my #GotheDist goal, and the number of goals @NikePlus has set for me, and I guess, other athlete things…

Some day soon I’ll have to do a review of Nike+, and discuss how it’s keeping me in shape, and my feet on the pavement and how it helped me go from my computer seat to athlete. I’ll do that after 1.19.12– I think there is an update coming out.