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Awesome to see the support, guys!
I have pretty much always been a skinny white boy (you know how with nerds it can go two ways, the glasses ones or the fat ones? I'm just missing the glasses), but that by no means is a result of good health or regular exercise. About four years ago, when I was sixteen, I started doing karate, and that's definitely the time that I was most in shape in my life. When I was eighteen, I went to Germany for a year and kinda let the karate go.
However one my three host families was quite into running. Each year the father would run a supermarathon (72km or 45 miles) and my hostbrother a normal marathon. They asked if I wanted to do a half marathon, and being too shy/polite to refuse, I accepted, and started training and completed the half-marathon in just under two hours, which I was really happy with, and discovered that I really enjoyed running. Shortly after that I took part in a ten-man 172km relay, which I also really enjoyed. However without something to train for on the horizon, my motivation pretty much disappeared, and I'm kinda disappointed in myself to realise that it's now been two years since I was running in any kind of committed way.
Since moving out of home at the beginning of this year, my diet's become even worse, and what little exercise I got cycling to and from uni has also been removed, since I live so much closer. As my super-dooper teenage-boy metabolism abandons me, I'm slowly but surely starting to put on weight.
So I'm hoping that this prop bet motivates me to get back into something that I know I enjoy, and I know that I feel much better about everything in general when doing regular exercise. I'm also thinking about getting back into karate, as that's something I really miss.
As the least affluent (or in boog's kind words, the most busto) of the three, I actually can't really afford to miss a day, so I'm in the happy position of having no choice but to follow through with this. DC does raise a good point about sickness, though, as it's coming into winter here and that shit spreads like wildfire amongst uni students. Perhaps something we should discuss, guys?
So, yes, today's my first day, I plan on going running shortly before the sun goes down as it's then not too warm (I'm sure daven will laugh at high temperature being a factor, if he reads this), and the lighting is the coolest.
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