Yeah, I totally glommed the site

I was brought to the realization that I had completely ignored this place soon after my whole need-a-shoe, foot-thingie-problem as it quickly dove into the holiday seasons full of food, unhealthy eating, and lack of exercise, and a heavy dose of finishing my finals and finally getting my associates degree of my plate. That said, my time did not go completely to waste in the realm of running. I spent time looking around for a good shoe, and even found a great shoe-store where they put me on a treadmill, recorded my run, and fit me for a bunch of different shoes. I didn’t buy anything that day, of which I felt pretty bad about, but when the sales-person dropped the $110 sticker-price on me, my nearby wife nearly dropped our baby.

Running the internet

Since I started my new-found hobby/torture combo, and have created this blog, I’ve also spent time looking around the web a bit at other people who blog and run, hoping to maybe find a community of like-minded individuals out there. The extroverted runner so to speak, or maybe just the overly-nerdy word-smith runner, or perhaps even more likely, the techie-runner who needs accountability in electronic form. I think the last probably defines me most accurately. Interestingly enough, it seems there are a fair amount of others who are starting along this same path, thought mostly female. Where are all the dudes? As another aside, there seems to be a LOT of food/running combo blogs.

We all hear stories in the states about the generally abysmal reality of the health of our fellow citizens, and how the youth especially are suffering from obesity. In counter-argument, I start look out at the vast interwebs for other runners, and my vision becomes crowded by the diversity of persons talking about the sport. It’s a fairly compelling argument against the accepted established idea of an ever-fattening United States. So, while a segment of the population may be shoveling happy meals into their children’s extra-wide gullet, and sucking down a choco-banana malt from Steak-n-Shake, there are those of us who are going for a mile run and then snacking on baby carrots with lite ranch afterwards and washing it down with a bottle of water.