Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Heart surgery., marathon, running, Toronto Marathon
A month ago I decided to enter the Toronto Marathon which will happen on October 19, 2008 and I thought to myself no problem.
Well, now a month has passed and I have yet to begin to walk yet alone run. We have a treadmill in the basement that is gathering dust even as I think about it. I know I need to start to move and I am hoping that I will blog about the experience.
This is not some whim or dare…there is nothing prompting or having something to prove this is the really just one of the many things on my list of things to do. I am not overtly overweight as I currently weigh 178 and my goal weight is 155-165 and I recognize that training will achieve that. Losing weight is just an added incentive to achieving my goal.
A year ago, I weighed my heaviest at 195 and I have attached a photo to start to track my progress.
This is me about 10 years ago, I am first on the left. Oh and so you know I am not hoping to look like that again I don’t think it’s possible…:)
Some needed background…
When I was eighteen, I found out that I had a heart problem and had to have heart surgery. It was for a birth defect, called Coarctation of the Aorta (narrowing in the aorta) it was pretty bad as the normal procedure was not done and I had a dacron graft placed in my aorta after the narrowing had been removed. As you can tell it went well or your reading a really strange kinda blog.
Since then, although I love to play games and sports, I played Lacrosse in HS, and Xcountry running in jr high. I have spent many more energies in the pursuit of music and on the path towards becoming a Pastor. A job that I absolutely love.
I am challenging myself to run this race to get myself fit and to accomplish a goal. I have become a finisher in my latter years, as I was growing up I was constantly told that I could not and as such I did not. I don’t like being in a state of being unfinished, but I can finish other stuff as I go.
That’s all for now I begin my training tomorrow I will post after my first session. This blog will be an accountability to the race that I am running.
Cheers,
Andrew
