A Man, a Can and a Plan twenty years later

It had to start some where. It was so long ago I don't even remember where we were. But i know we stood around, all holding a can of beer making a plan. A plan to run a marathon together someday.  So long ago, so many things of changed.  It had to be twenty years ago. Before we were married, before we had kids, before we had the bull shit that life throws at you. It was back when we were young enough and had enough energy to pull it off!!

Twenty years of excuses and here we are! Old, beat up and stressed out, yet i still have this burning feeling of failure.  I need to do a marathon someday before I die. It's pretty apparent if you've been at this space before that this has been eating at me.

Its been a long time since I wrote here.  I guess I stopped sometime in last years pitiful quest for the run to remember.  I was probably too embarrassed that I wasn't training properly to blog.  I did run the race and somehow finished. But the poor training showed. I was a mess. Barley finished. It honestly couldn't suck enough!! I looked at my wife and sister when i finished and said "I'm never doing this again"!!

That would of course mean i was a quitter, and had given in to the beast!! Fuck that!! Here we go again!!
I quit smoking on 1/8/11 and have been working hard since.  Dusted of the sneakers and ran a 5k in March with my friend Doug.  Since then Ive been going steady with increasing mileage!
 I have done multiple runs of 9 miles or more. Yesterday i kicked an 11 in Saugus. I've never been stronger! I'm going to rock the run to remember in three weeks!! If that goes well I'm going to.....well lets just say Ive got something bigger planned. much bigger, about twice as big.

For now, i need you to keep reading and keep encouraging me not to fail.

And of course I have to thank president Obama for killing that piece of shit last week!! Nice Job Prez! It's a great week to be an American!

I'm going to try and start posting on a regular basis again starting with this post. It helps me in many ways! And of course i need all of the help i can get.

See ya

Ross

P.S. Song of the day- Faith cover by Limp Bizkit