My name is John (pen name). My wife Addie (also pen name) and I live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. I'm in my mid-30's. I'm not a jock or a rock star (although I love to sign vocals with friend on the video game
Rock Band). I'm actually kind of geek. I love
Star Wars, and
Linux, and fun gadgets like
Android phones. We also love to hike, but to be honest, I'm no pro. I've been on 4 hikes in the last year, and all but one were 4 miles or less. I work at a job that is fairly high stress and I mostly sit all day. Over a period of several years, I ate junk food for convenience. At one point, I would pick up a breakfast sandwich or burrito at a shop around the corner from my work and eat out
every day with colleagues from work. As a result, I gained a decent amount of weight around the middle. Addie and I have been married for less than two years. Since she's been in my life, I've started running more as she is a marathoner (small disclaimer here: some may assume that because she's run marathons, she's a skinny little minx; not true. She's an average gal.) We run together - not fast, but we can go far.
I guess the biggest thing I want to get across is we're pretty normal people. We don't have a gym membership. We aren't in already immaculate shape. We are planning on amping up effort over the next few months. But where we're starting from is probably like most people - overworked and overcommuted, stressed from our jobs, and out of shape - at least what we'd like. This is our story and we're sharing our journey here as it unfolds.
This is what I look like now:
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