I'm starting up again next week...
December of 2007, a friend of mine made me his little project. I was 330 pounds, and miserable. He turned me into a runner, and I LOVED it. Got down to about 235 pounds, and ran a total of 7 half marathons. Then I had surgery and couldn't run for 6 weeks...and kept eating like I was running 20-30 miles a week...oops...then more injuries from trying to build mileage too fast, and voila...I'm back up in the 280s, and miserable. I haven't run with any regularity since last August.
Next week the schedule with the kids finally clears up a bit, and it will be easier to make the "me" time I need to get back in to it. I've also been issued a challenge by my brother in law who will pay my entry to run the full marathon at Disneyworld in 2015 if I can get myself there. Challenge accepted.
Don't have the specifics as I haven't weighed yet, but I'm currently around 288. Planning on being below 250 by the end of the summer, 230 by Christmas, and right around 200 by next summer, which is my current goal - between 200 and 220...gonna depend on how I feel when I hit 220.
I'm planning on running the half marathon at the Flying Pig in May, 2014, then maybe the half at the Air Force Marathon in Sept 2014 then dovetail that into training for the full marathon at Disney in January, 2015.