Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Then and now

An old mate from Australia and his family were in Galway for a few days so I decided to take a day off and instead eat and drink too much. Good fun. This very person was the reason I started running when I moved to Sydney in 1999.  Weighing in at 15 and a half stone I was in shocking nick and I remember our first run around Lane Cove. I didn't even have proper runners and I did my "run" in a pair of Adidas casual trainers. I managed about 5 minutes of shuffling before I had to start walking...

2 comments:

Steve said...

How does one go from 5 mins of shuffling to a 2:28 marathon?? That's an amazing story Matt! Btw, what weight are you now in comparison?

BeerMatt said...

Thanks Steve. I haven't weighed myself in a long time but I'd guess I'm around 12 stone.