HELLO WORLD

How do you start to blog? I have no clue. Let's just start with a little bit about me.

I am married now for 20 years. I have a great wife, a daughter who is a 2nd year architecture major in Miami University--Ohio not Florida. I have two other married daughters from my first marriage and 6 grandchildren. I live in a fantastic town in North Jersey with a great house that I love.

I am well...lets just say quite mature.....I have been around. OK OK I am over the hill? No not that. I am like fine vintage wine....? Probably not.... but maybe just as old. Well...does it matter? This blog will be mostly about running. That's my passion. Perhaps I will throw some odds and ends in once in awhile. Well here goes.

My story about running is pretty simple. I will keep it short. I was in my early fifties... never having run except when I had no choice- like doing the mile in high school gym in 12 minutes or more. But something brought me to running.. What was it?

It was my health. I wont bore you with the details but that's what made me start running. And in my first year of running I went from never having run to somehow being convinced I could actually do a marathon. I trained for almost 9 months and never made it to that first marathon. I injured myself....improper training.

I then laid off of running for about 3 years and came back when again my doctor told me to do something to lose weight. So I listened; started running again; lost 30 pounds and got obsessed with running. That's how I started. Since then I have really caught the fever. The religion as I like to call it. My religion is Running. I ran Philly Marathon in 2008 using the Galloway run walk method. My time: 5:24 yikes. I was thrilled that I finished.

I found North Jersey Masters this past year. A running club in, duh, North Jersey. What a difference. My training changed to include track workouts and lots and lots of races. I ran over 20 races this past year including two half marathons and the NYC Marathon. My time: 4:43 and I really wasnt satisfied.