Why Is a Heavy Guy Blogging About His Running

Clearly I am not a guru when it comes to running; my distances are short, my times are too long, and my form is sad. I often look like a three legged bear limping back to the car. Yet here I am, telling all of my followers (and those would be my wife and…oh wait, that’s it) about my running trials and tribulations. Well as I waded through the ocean of running blogs I found several I liked; articulate, helpful, inspiring, and so on (Runblogger is my current favorite). But I’ve yet to find any worth reading from about a heavy runner or any directed towards a heavy audience, so I decided to start my own. If people (big or small) find this and can get something out of it, then great. But even if my wife is my only subscriber (and I doubt she actually reads them) I will continue to web-log away. If for no other reason, it will serve as my own inspiration, my accountability to myself. But I can hope; maybe I’ll start a new trend turning uber-competitive stocky ex-ruggers/fighters/powerlifters into distance runners, maybe I’ll lead the way inspiring overweight people to not quit after the initial struggle, or maybe I’ll get all kinds of free stuff from running companies trying to tap into a new market (that would be great, for all you companies out there).

Are You Sure You Want To Read This Blog

There are a lot of running blogs out there; and you should probably go read them. Why? Because this isn’t like most blogs. Most blogs are written by skinny runners for people who want to get skinny or are already skinny, there are even some blogs about heavy people’s goals of, and journey towards, getting skinny.

But, this isn’t like most blogs, I’m a big guy, with no interest in getting skinny. I’m 5’11” with a weight that fluctuates between 215 lbs to 235 lbs (in season and out of season; respectively), and I hope my weight never drops below 210 lbs. I powerlift (PR: bench 425 lbs, squat 565 lbs), play rugby (it’s like football without pads and boring downtime), began training for mixed martial arts (until my son was born), and run (the part that justifies this blog).

So this blog may not be for you. I probably won’t be testing tons of equipment (running companies tend to give freebies to skinny runners), I’m still kind of new at running for the sake of running (about a year), and I’m not that fast. Not to mention, I tend to tangent (note the overuse of parenthesis), I have poor sentence structure, and I’ve been told I have an odd sense of humor. However, if this sound appealing by all means read on.