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Half number 3

So my third half marathon in 62 days is complete. It was a hot one and it was rough. I did complete it though. That's what's important.

Half marathon number 3

This Sunday will be my 3rd half marathon in a time span of 2 months and 2 days. Last year at this time I had a very hard time pushing out a 3 miles and here I am about to run my third 13.1mile race. I'll be first to say I'm not the skinniest of guys, I'm not the most in shape of guys, and I'm not the fastest of guys. I'll be first to admit I do not run the entire thing non-stop I do a run walk method. None of that matters though. I have learned no one cares how much I weigh out there or how frightening I look when I wear tri shorts in a triathlon. No one cares how slow I am. All they care is I am out there. What matters is I'm out there and I'm doing it. What matters is I have put in the time and I have over come many obstacles to get here. Doing something new and different is scary. The first time you step foot into a gym as you start to train, or the first time you get to the start line for a new distance or new event can be so overwhelming. The end result though is always the same if you give it 110% at the end your gonna feel like your on top of the world. You will feel amazing and that's what is important. There are small things and comments people have said to me over the last year that really stick with me and small bits of advice that has really made a difference. So in closing during a 33 mile bike ride last year someone told me "if it was easy everyone would do it." That has stuck with me for a long time and when things get rough that's what I remember. It's not your speed that matters, it's not your looks that matter, it's not how gracefully you appear while you do it. What matters is you get out there and you try. Have a great day my friends enjoy the beautiful weekend.

#try #pushyourself #trilife #chubbyrunner #fatrunner #fattriathlete #chubbytriathlete

I'm back

Ok so sorry for not posting in a while I have been fairly busy with well life. Since my last post I have completed two half marathons. First was Syracuse which well sucked. It was hilly and I was a nervous wreck my time was 3:41 or something like that. Then was cornwall. It was amazing I was set and everything clicked my time was 3:16ish. So what's next I go to Ottawa for a half this weekend and I go to a couple sprint tri's starting next month I can't wait.

#pushyourself #swimbikerun

Get out there

We are 3 weeks away from my first ever 10k. The furthest distance I have ran to date is 4 miles at one time. Currently in all honesty I'm looking at the 10k taking about an hour and a half. I know that's a long time for a run and I realize it is probably much slower than most. BUT I don't care. This is my last big event of the year and I'm gonna do it with my head held high and with a great amount of pride. 9 months ago It took all I could do to run 1/10 of a mile at a time. Now I'm looking at getting out and going 6.2miles. I can't help but feel pride in that. This should go to show you that you can do anything you want to if you set your mind to it and work at it. I could have easily said many times over I can't do that, or this is to hard or to far. I haven't though. I will admit I have more than once said this sucks, this is hard, I'm so sore, but in the end I always felt great about what I accomplished and always felt proud to be able to say I did it. That is truly a feeling that no one can take away. I was truly surprised at how emotional crossing a finish line can be this year. How many different feelings and thoughts can go through your head in those last few seconds of the race and I'll tell you what every last one of them is worth the pain, the tiredness, and the work that I put forth. Have a great day my friends. Get out there and enjoy life.

What's coming up for me?

So looking at my race calendar there is a lot coming up for me. November 5 cookie 10k in Ottawa. This will be my first 10k December 31 resolution 5k run March 26 Syracuse 1/2 marathon. This will be my first half marathon April 29 Cornwall ms 1/2 marathon May 28 Ottawa race weekend 1/2 marathon. June 24 tupper lake tinman sprint tri. This will be my first sprint length race July 9 boilermaker 15k. This is not a phase in my life. This is my life. I'm working so very hard to get myself in shape and condition for these events each and everyone of them mean so much to me. People don't realize how much it takes to do this and it's ok they don't need to but they should have some respect for what I'm doing.

Looking ahead

So next year is going to be an exciting year for me. It will be my first full season doing tri events. So what I have registered for so far are 2 half marathons and a sprint tri event. That will be my longest distance to date. It's going to be an interesting year next year.

My new toy. Pink handle bars were my choice.

33miles on a mountain bike.

So this weekend I pushed my next big push. I did 33 miles on a mountain bike on the road. It was rough. My average pace was 11.7 mph. It took me 2:50 to do it. It was a very emotional ride. I needed it though I came in dead last. Again I needed that. It helped me realize that it didn't matter that I came in last. How many other +300lb men rode a bike 33 miles on Saturday I can promise you not very many. I needed to see that it didn't matter where I finished it was about finishing and pushing myself and developing a personal best for me. I think that was the key thing to learn today. So after this ride I went out and got a new toy picture to follow.

#enjoylife

You can do it!!!!

So often times i get stressed about coming the possibility of coming in last place and I keep getting told well your still doing good because I could not do what you are. I honestly don't know which frustrates me more the fact that they don't get why I don't wanna come in last place or the fact that they don't see what I'm doing isn't really all that hard if you work for it. It's so frustrating that people feel they can't do something where if they worked for it a little and trained they could be doing the same thing as I am. They can do it. I have seen a lot of people in a lot worse shape than some of these people saying they could never do it out there doing it. You need to have realistic goals is all. You need to have motivation. You can't go out thinking you will run a crazy speed you need to realize it takes time.

#youcandoit

Nerves

Day before race day kinda nervous kinda stressed. Not that I'm not going to be able to do it or anything it is just a long race. I can't really explain why I'm nervous just that I am. There is no logical reason to be nervous. It's just another day to go for a swim followed by a bike followed by a run. I'm only racing myself. Yet my nerves are there and t is what it is.

The greatest feeling

It is always nice when you leave the gym feeling better than when you went into the gym. What an amazing feeling. A nice little 1.5mile jog followed by a 20minute swim. So relaxing.

#lifeisgreat

8/31/16 workout from hell

So tonight I biked a little over ten miles then I ran a mile and half and I use the term loosely. The run was more a run/walk 70/30 split. It was very hilly and not very much fun the run I had a very hard time getting into. Then top it all off I wore tri shorts tonight. Good thing is they didn't keep falling down bad thing they are spandex. Blah. Here's to tomorrow.

#spandexsux

My work out 8/30/16

So last nights work out was a push. It started with a 23 minute swim. I covered 625m. Started with 15 minutes of the crawl stroke then for the remaining time I did what I had to just keep swimming. I tried out my new tri shorts in the pool they weren’t as bad as I thought they would be.

My run was next I covered 4 miles and I got 3 personals bests. I got best 5k time, fastest mile, and longest distance ran. Not bad for me.

I want to note something my times and such they aren’t for speed to kill myself. I’m not racing anything but my last run. A year ago I would have never done this and to me that’s all the improvement I need.

#embracethespandex

My First TRI event

So August 28 was the day of days the tri event for me was a 200m swim a 10k bike and a 5k run. It was my first ever triathlon. That morning I woke up I really wanted to roll over and go back to bed. I was nervous. I was scared. All those self doubting thoughts from the boilermaker race were flooding my head again. Then I saw my trainer and his wife during registration. We talked a bit and things started to calm down. Then he introduced me to some of his friends and nerves calmed more and more. I watched other people come through the transitions so I knew what I was doing when I did mine. It sucked watching the clock and waiting for my start.

Finally 10:15 rolled around and I had a 10:30 start so I proceeded to the water front. I waited by the water and the announcer asked for the athletes to make their way to the water. It took me a minute to realize she was talking to me. I was an athlete. I’m still grossly overweight I’m at 310lbs (50lbs lighter than the start) but I was there and I was competing, I was an athlete. I worked hard and I earned it. I entered the water. The swim was a down and back the buoy’s looked so far away. The countdown started the horn sounded and we were off. There was no turning back I was in the race.

The swim was long it felt like it took forever. I finished in a little over 8 minutes. The transition was up hill and off to the bike the bike I felt amazing the wind in my face my shoes clicked in easily and everything was smooth I just pushed it out. I was going and I slowly was passing a couple of people. The bike went so fast at the end of that leg it had felt like I had just started it. I was just under 30 minutes for that leg. The transition from the bike to the run sucked because I forgot to leave my shoes untied so that slowed me up but with no time I was out on my run. My run time was around 22minutes.

The run was something that impressed me if I was able to keep my time I would have finished the run portion of this race faster than I finished the boilermaker not even 2 months prior. How is that for improvement? I had a lot of support there that day and it felt like when I crossed that finish line the crowd erupted with cheers from them and they really honestly made this event for me. That feeling of accomplishment of finishing something I started was just amazing.

It is now 2 days after and I’m still finding myself day dreaming of this event and looking forward to the next. It is not something I will ever forget.

I want more

Somewhere in the beginning of august I started to get to a point where I was questioning my training. Was I doing the right things? Was there something more I could do was there easier methods? The try a tri was only a month away was I really ready for it? I looked at the finishing results of past years and I felt I was in the bottom tier for sure but there was a good chance I wouldn’t be last but what could I do to get better? I hired a trainer. This I feel was one of the more important investments cause he has helped me focus on my training on things that will help me for triathlon specific training. He has answered questions on the bike its self, he also helped me set my bike up for the race. He went over transitions with me so I knew what I was doing. He has pointed out so many things that inside I already knew but didn’t believe and helped me see and believe them. He has helped push me to the next level. All around this was just a great choice for me.

I'm Hooked

I started looking for other races other events I needed something I felt like a druggie looking for a fix. By that next weekend I had signed up for 4 more events and I was starting to think of what else I could do. I started wondering could I do a triathlon? I mean could I really push myself that far? So I looked around and found the Cornwall Try a Tri. It wasn’t a full scale triathlon it was a start though so I went back and forth on if I could do it or not and so finally I just signed up and decided I was gonna do it regardless. The next race was the Clayton 5k. I trained for a couple weeks for this running daily and pushing myself and pushing my run time out more and more. I watched my pace and it made a difference my Clayton time I shaved off 4minutes. I went to that race thinking it was just another run just another jog I wasn’t nervous I was just pumped.

The next race was the Brushton cross country 5k. Most of this race was off road. It was a huge challenge cause at one point I was running through a mowed hay field. Every time you pushed in your run your foot slid as you ran but I jogged my entire first mile. I finished in the same time as Clayton but being off road I was satisfied with this. I was doing it still and it still felt great. I had my fastest mile to that day there. It was still an amazing feeling.

Race Day

July 10th was race day. That weekend I went to Utica and I was excited and ready to go and pumped. I rode the course and saw what there was to see it was nothing I had this. The morning of July 10 I woke up a scared little boy. I was nervous I didn’t know what to expect I have never done anything like this before. Were people gonna look at me and see me as to fat to do it? Did I really belong here? What on earth was I thinking when I signed up for this? I’m going to be running in front of 1000’s of people. This isn’t just going to be a run around the block where no one see me or pay attention to me the world will see me. The first mile sucked it was all uphill I walked most of it. The first mile was full of being scared and self conscious and self doubt. I got to the top of the hill and I realized no one even cares about my weight here they are all just cheering for the runners to go. I was a runner. They were cheering for me. Well not me directly but still. The second mile being downhill I watched my pace and I pushed it out. It wasn’t that bad. I was just enjoying the moment. Then mile 3 started. It her it really started to hit me I was gonna do this. I was gonna finish a 5k today. I ran and walked this section. At a 1/3 mile out I started to push again and I finished strong. It was such an amazing feeling. I won’t ever forget it. I felt like I was part of something. I was hooked.

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