Author Archives: rfme

WELCOME: I built this site to chronicle my 10 month journey from 320 lb “couch potato” to marathoner back in 2009. After I accomplished that goal, my new goal was to continue running marathons (69 as of March 2021) in … Continue reading →

Help Me. I’ve Been Bad! Posted on April 26, 2019 The following was written on April 20, 2019 in response to a question posted on Quora.com. The questions was Why do people run marathons if it’s bad for your body? … Continue reading →

Why I need to run the 2019 Boston Marathon Please note that the explanation below was originally sent as an email to Dave McGilivray (race director of the Boston Marathon) first, and then forwarded to the BAA back in November … Continue reading →

WELCOME: I built this site to chronicle my 10 month journey from 320 lb “couch potato” to marathoner back in 2009. After I accomplished that goal, my new goal was to continue running marathons (63 as of April 2019) in … Continue reading →

I will do everything I need to do to accomplish it. This time it’s going to be different. The message always seems so promising, overflowing with optimism, and my hope and spirit gets lifted. Again. Regardless of the past, the … Continue reading →

Amazing what can happen in 8 years! Fortunately Julia got bigger, which is a great thing,  and I didn’t, which is also a good thing! 🙂 Happy 18th Birthday Julia! Julia had just turned 10 and I weighed 164.  April … Continue reading →

To anyone that is reading this (both of you), I apologize for not providing more content. And now with that out of the way, here is a new post…well sort of. On occasion I go to a website called Quora.com … Continue reading →

Boston is known as “Beantown”, thanks to the popularity of it’s “Boston” baked beans. New York’s “Big Apple” started as a obscure reference back in 1909, became a sports term in reference to NY racetracks in the 1920s and eventually … Continue reading →

And I’m back. Someday I’ll try to explain my hiatus but not today because today is… June 7th! June 7th is a very special day for me because it was on that day back in 2008 that Mary took a … Continue reading →