Hey, I'm Jason.

I was always a "fast twitch" sport guy. Lifted competitively in high school and college, but not the bodybuilding stuff. I married my high school sweetheart who was a cross country runner, and 50 pounds later she's still in good shape and I'm not. I've recently rededicated myself to fitness and have had some great results. She and I have been running (she stopped about 4 months into pregnancy), and she has a bucketlist item to run a marathon. Well, she's considerably faster than I am, so I figured I should run one to get it under my belt before we run one together! I have found that I absolutely LOVE running. After about 45 minutes I just hit this zone where I don't have to do ANYTHING else, other than move forward. That reduces the stress, eh?

Hope this finds you all well.

Hi. I am Erica. I am in the "Future" category. I have not entered any races as of yet. I only started running about 4 months ago. I finished c25K not long ago and was looking to build on it. I have decided to run the Chicago marathon in October 2012. I have a little less than a year to train. I just started training this week using the hal higdon app on my phone. Nice to meet everyone.

I'm Ruth and I have been running off and on for quite a few years. 2 years ago our daughter challenged us to do five area 5Ks in the fall and the 4 of us did that. The race environment is so encouraging! I turned 50 last year and hoped to run a full marathon but had ITB issues and backed off. My lesson learned - it's not JUST about finishing a marathon! Priorities are back in order and I've been running quite consistently this year since March. (Northeast winters can be tough, especially living out in the country where plows might not be seen very frequently!) My husband, 15 yo son, and I ran three 5Ks and one 10K this year. (We save our change in a big bottle for race fees and sometimes don't have enough for all the races we want to do. :ohwell: ) Surprisingly to me, I won medals in 2 of our 5Ks in my age group - 1st place in one of them!

Next year, in addition to our regular 5Ks, the three of us plan to do a half in June and my son and I to do a full in the fall. (Hubby just doesn't have the time to train for long distances but he keeps running 5 - 6 miles about 3 times a week.).

I just love the time I spend running with my son - he's homeschooled so we have more flexibility with when we run. He and I try to talk throughout our runs, except on the steep hills :noway: , and encourage each other.

Hi, my name is Ena and I live in Vancouver BC. I've been running for about two years. I've run 3 marathons and about 6 half marathons. I'm about to start training for my 4th full in May. One of the reasons I would like to lose some weight is to improve my running.

Hi I'm Amanda. Ran my First Marathon in September. I have lost 100lbs exercising and counting exchanges, maintained for a year. Now I am going for the last 50.I gained 10 training in high mileage! I am getting ready to start training for a half in May. I have a blog about running and being a chubbster : http://toughroadfink.blogspot.com/ . Its very honest. The posts about the race i'm pretty proud of. I was The last offical timed runner, there was a ladder in my finish photo. Time of 5:58:50. I was 214.
My goals is to get to my goal weight. PR in the spring for the half. And eventually shave an hour off my full time in the coming years.
Friend me, I don't have many on here!

Never ever ever give up, you can do it!

Hi everyone I'm Leah, a 22 year old student (Pre-med) who never ran until about 2 years ago. Now I'm in love with it and my goal for 2012 is to complete 25 races throughout the year. I'm hoping that 2 of those will be halfers, so I have a lot of hard work a head of me but am VERY excited to put in the time!!

Hi all! I am a former curvy chick (200 lbs on my 5'7" frame) who picked up running in 2006 as a way to accelerate my weight loss. It took a while, but I finally ran my first 5-K race in 2010, and my first half marathon in June 2011. I am officially registered to run the Cleveland Marathon on May 20th, 2012!!! My fiance and I are training together and are really excited to run it. We use a Galloway timer for our longer weekend runs, but during the week I generally run around 6 miles every other day without the timer. On off days, I will use the elliptical for an hour, or do a barre workout for strength training (shameless plug: Pure Barre is exceptional!)

I could really use some advice about endurance training, since the half marathon distance is the furthest I have run so far. Also, nutritional advice would be great. Looking forward to getting to know you guys!

Hi. Im Adam and I am running my first marathon on april 21st. Im running for the SALT LAKE CITY MARATHON and am looking for a time of under 4 hours. hope we can support each other. thanks guys. lets be friends.

Hi everyone,

I started running in 2010 in connection with a weight loss of about 50 pounds (this year I lost another 20 for a total of 70, but gained that 20 back -- have maintained the 50 pound loss consistently for almost 3 years! -- I credit running with helping on that front). Since then I have run lots of races including three half marathons. I just signed up for the NYC marathon (guaranteed entry) in November 2012. So I'll be training for that and I am already excited and nervous. Most importantly, I need to (and will) lose 40 or so pounds prior to the marathon to get to a better running weight. Upcoming races include the SunTrust Rock and Roll half marathon in DC this March.

Feel free to message me or send a friend request!

Christina

Hi, I have ran one half marathon and dozens of smaller races. My dream is to run boston. I am restarting running after having illness issues. I am beginning training got the across rhr bay 12K in San Francisco. My roommate has given me an ultimatum for rhis race and could use all the help I can get.