I have always been a runner, sometimes off sometime on...I grew up in England and for the most part during school I played team sports, rugby, field hockey and basketball, I dabbled a bit with tennis and was tall so I ended up on the athletics (track and field) team. I was on the field team competing in the long and triple jump. I never excelled at anything but was always in the middle of most things.
I leaned how to ride horses and spent a couple of years after finishing High School traveling around Europe Show Jumping and the like. I got interested in Mountain Biking and did that on and off for years.
I ran here and there and spent seven years in the military where I dressed up as a bush and ran around with a large pack strapped to my back. I am the one in camo with the rifle...
In 2000 I moved to California and fell in love with Mountain Biking again until moving to New York in 2004 where I worked too much, ate too much, traveled too much and gained 50lbs! I moved back to California in 2006 and started running to loose a bit of weight. New Years Eve 2006 I vowed to run a marathon before I was 40. In June 2007 I ran my first Marathon, two months before my birthday. In September that year I started Trail Running in November the same year I ran my first 50k. Since then I lost the 50lbs and a few more on top, I have run another four Marathons and started ten Ultras; finishing eight of them.
In 2012 I am turning my attention to Triathlons and being an all or nothing kinda guy I have signed up for Ironman Arizona which is in November.
My old profile used to say; "You could say long distance running has become a habit! But be warned I keep moving the targets in much the same way as the horizon keeps moving…such is the lot of a runner!" It looks like the horizon will move in 2012!
There are some other bits and pieces you might find interesting here...
