On your mark...get set....

In the next 4 months I'm going to cross 2 finish lines that are of importance to me, and ultimately to you through reading this blog. The first comes on March 21 when I cross the finish line of the Shamrock Marathon in Virginia Beach, VA. The second comes on May 23, the day that I will have "cooked" through the entire book entitled "This Is Why You're Fat". If you have never encountered the blog thisiswhyyourefat.com, I highly recommend that be the first thing you do before reading further. This Is Why You're Fat started as a blog displaying pictures of various foods that we as humans consume and upon eating them will certainly get very fat (hence the name), and has now been published in book form. For some reason, my brain has been wired to really love this kind of thing. Unhealthy portions of unhealthy food, cooked in some imaginative way...well it just doesn't get much better than that. My plan is to cook all the way through this ridiculously caloric cookbook and regale you, the reader, with the gory, fatty details of what it takes to deep fry, bacon wrap, and pork overload these culinary concoctions, eat them, and then use them as the fuel to train for my marathon. This is where it should get interesting. Much hoopla is made about proper dieting while training for marathons, and I intend to really get down to the bottom of how much it really matters. Have I mentioned yet how crazy I am about large portions of food that most normal people would find revolting?? It really gets me going to know that in the next 4 months I get to deep fry whole pizzas, dip and cover bacon in chocolate, and build a sandwich that contains just under 30,000 calories!!! The plan is to post weight, blood pressure, miles to run that day, and some beautiful(ly fatty) pictures of that day's creation with each post. This should be a journey that uncovers the strength and depth of the human body, from the belly down to the two legs we run on. I can only hope that you will get as much enjoyment from following me on this journey as I will from taking it.