Wow...so much to do

I can understand how people can feel overwhelmed when your overweight and trying to get healthy. The I don't know where to start feeling can be pretty hard to get past. I took a huge step in getting the Gastric Bypass surgery, it took over a year to make that happen. The surgery was only the first step on my road to a healthy new me. The phrase GB patients use is the surgery was the first "Tool" in our arsenal. Well here I am 5 months after my surgery and I am down 130 lbs, sounds easy right? Well if elimination of  80% of your food intake, going to the gym daily, relearning how to eat without drinking and giving up PBR is your idea of easy, then yeah it was easy :).

So now begins Phase2.

Pam and I set the goal of running a triathlon  in September, now most people healthy or not will never set that goal. Thats OK. Setting a goal to do anything out of your comfort zone is what you need to do to stay motivated. So my prep work has begun to make sure we achieve our goal. Now I love the internet, some may say I am an internet whore :).  I am starting my training for a 5k in December, so I downloaded the Couch to5k app for my Iphone. Yes there is an app for that. What an amazing concept, play some angry birds and then go run. I love my Iphone.
I am on a quest to find suitable footwear, so Saturdays goal is to purchase a high end pair of sneakers to save my feet from serious injury. The science behind running shoes is fairly in depth, so I am going to the Inside Track in Lancaster to have them fit me for a pair of higher end kicks. Anyone have any recommendations?

What have I started?

Coming next week....The official training blog begins.

A first....

I never thought I would need to have a blog, in this day and age between texting and Facebook your life is pretty much an open book. We decided to start this blog to chronicle our first year of marriage since we are taking a non-traditional approach (surprise) to celebrating our wedded life.


The idea behind Honeymooners on the Run is simple. Offer our friends and family a way to interact with us as we embark on this journey together. Support, Accountability and Advice are the top things we are looking for out of this blog...and a few laughs at my expense :)


A little backstory on why we are doing this...


As most of you know I was terribly overweight a few months back (356lbs to be exact) I was killing myself slowly but steadily with poor diet and lack of exercise. I needed to make a drastic change in my life before something really bad happened. 

I had Gastric Bypass on June 2, 2010. That decision has changed my life 1000%. So much so that I am actually entertaining the thought of running in a 5k in December. One of my secret bucket list items has been to finish a IronMan Triathlon. Obviously by the picture above the only thing resembling a triathlon I was ever going to compete in would involve Pizza, Beer and Ice Cream. 

Pam had a great idea to celebrate our 1st Anniversary (this is why were soul-mates, she had no idea about my bucket list ) , instead of something cheesy, we should participate in a Sprint Tri together. So fast forward and here we are, prepping to begin the quest to celebrate our 1st anniversary together!

So what is a Sprint Triathlon your may be wondering. It entails a 500 Yard open water swim, 16 mile bike ride and a 3.1 mile run. We have 11 months to train for this, there will be 5k's in the interim, the first run Pam and I will do together is the Race Against Racism in April. So follow along as we detail our training, be our cheering section, our accountability and if you feel so inspired you can come join us...seriously.