In August of 2009 my friends conned me into competing in a triathlon. It is swimming 1.2 miles, biking for 50 miles, then running for 13 miles along lake michigan. That is I think 1/2 of an iron man.

Even at my current weight of 291 lbs I am actually good for the swimming and biking pretty competitively, but for the running I am going to have to drop a good 60 lbs by then. Training starts Nov 1st!

When I got married (right out of high school) 6 years ago I was a a tank at 6'-3" 210 lbs. Now I am more of a barge.

I am not going to win the even by any means, my goal is to finish all of the checkpoints in time to finish the race!