Dude, are you kidding?? No Way!

First post to this blog, welcome!

This blog will cover the humorous, painful and self depreciating journey of a 34 going 35, slightly overweight, out of shape, Dutch father of 1 who set himself one mother-of-a-BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal); that goal being to complete the NYC 2010 Marathon in November, and live to tell the story! And yes, its now well into October 2009, meaning I have a little over 12 months to try and get myself sorted.

Where did this come from you might ask? Not enough things to do in life? Too much time on your hands? No, not really. Recently, I've been doing some soul-searching and decided that I needed a bit more of a sense of accomplishment, true meaningful accomplishment. Not that being a proud father doesn't already do that for me. Nor the fact that I'm stuck in a rut in any real way. I'm happily married, we have a lovely 1 year old boy who is an absolute happy camper. On top of that we both have relatively good jobs, we live in the heart of beautiful Amsterdam, we travel the world and do, try anyway, to live all out, carpe diem, pura vida and all that. Yet I feel like something is missing. I feel like there is a void that needs filling, and no, this time its not my tummy rumbling! I decided I need a personal challenge that will make a real difference once completed.

So for me, and probably for everybody else, the only way to get to that true feeling of accomplishment is to set ambitious goals, take action, readjust relentlessly until finally, you will reach that goal. Thats the theory anyway. And might as well make your goal a big one!

And let me mention that I'm currently in the 28-29 BMI range, I haven't really done any running in my life, other than the occasional attempts that never really lasted (neither in distance, nor in time, nor in total quantity!) Basically, its against all odds, lets see if the theory I mentioned above works.

So here we go, a little over 388 days! Wish me luck folks! (.......oh man, what have I gotten myself into!)