camaker
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing
- Joined
- May 8, 2015
ATTQOTD: I started running because of Disney and now run it because I enjoy it and can't imagine otherwise. I was always a team sports person. I loved chasing a ball or a disc, with Ultimate Frisbee being my college and adult sport of choice. Running just to run was unthinkably boring. Then a lifetime of bad habits caught up to me, I had to have knee surgery, and the surgeon told me I should take the elevator rather than the stairs because my knee was in so bad a shape and I was going to need a knee replacement before 50, if not. After that, things spiraled out of control and I ended up at 335 lbs before deciding something had to change.QOTD: Simple question here today. Why do you run?
ATTQOTD: It started out to drop a few pounds, and then continued because I enjoyed it so much.
I used a combination of walking and diet change to drop 155 lbs and get to the point where I could start playing Ultimate Frisbee again. Around that time, my PT, a fellow Disney fan, asked me if I'd consider running a half marathon with him at W&D 2015. I started some training and found that I actually loved running for running's sake. After the first 10k that I ran for W&D PoT, I was hooked. Unfortunately, we weren't able to get registered for W&D, so I turned my attention to MW 2016 where I ran the 10k + Goofy. The rest is history, as they say.