About

Hello. My name is Steven Waldon, and I am a runner.

I haven’t always been a runner; I never played any sports in high school or college, and generally led a pretty inactive (physically, at least) life. It was probably quite obvious through high school and college, as I was always a bit of a chubby kid.

Sometime around 2002 during my super self-conscious junior year at UCLA, I decided to lose weight and actually started to jog for the first time. 40 pounds later, I was happy at how I looked and stopped jogging. Between graduating and working full-time, I didn’t have time to jog (or so I thought).

In March of 2009, after 5 years of not jogging, I decided it was time to get in shape again. I wasn’t overweight, but I certainly wasn’t in-shape. I decided it was time to get fit and healthy again; I wanted to quit the smoking (this proved to be difficult), and maybe work toward the goal of a marathon. I didn’t have anything *that* concrete in mind — other than this time I wanted to run — not jog — and I wanted to do it well. I was going to turn this into a little competition with myself to see how I could do.

This blog is just a simple way of tracking my progress–my training, races, experiences, and goals for the future.