Why One Hundred?

If anyone is reading this who is like me, a little or a lot overweight, no longer considered young by most standards and ready for a challenge, than this blog is for you. Because you are like me, only maybe not as loopy. You may be curious about competing in endurance races or wonder what makes someone want to do that. You may even wonder if you have what it takes do one. Maybe its just morbid curiosity that leads you here. Why would a forty five year old overweight ex runner with a back injury want to run a one hundred mile race?

The answer is easy, because I never got the chance. In the first few months that I started running, I read the magazine Trail Runner like it was a sacred religious text. I still do. I poured over the pages detailing trail races that lasted for a whole day. I marveled that anyone would want to run a hundred miles up and down the Rockies or complete in a race known as the Canadian Death Race or the legendary Western States. I wanted to be an Ultra runner. But, being in the Eastern part of the country where road races were far more plentiful, I chose to run marathons.

After a catastrophic injury, four years of weight gain, feeling sorry for myself and recovery not to mention junk food, I have decided that I am going to chase down my goal. I am going to find a way to run a ONE HUNDRED MILE RACE. I have heard of the wonderful training programs called Couch to 5K or C25K for short, well this is going to be Couch to 160.9K. You get the picture, One hundred miles sounds so much better. Its a nice round number and its a crazy challenge. Its the one race I never did and I intend to do one. Come with me on my journey. Lets go running!