Originally Posted by cdrewferd

Thanks guys. It's not the distance, or hills that are causing me issues. It's the time away from the family.

For myself I want to do it to get into better shape. My family has a horrible history with heart disease. It's what killed my dads parents, and probably their siblings and parents as well. My dad was number 3 of 10 kids and all but 2 of them have had some sort of bypass surgery. Just 2 years ago my brother had quintuple bypass surgery at the young age of 42. It's possible that everything I do won't make a difference and I could still end up having to have bypass surgery at some point. However, I want to do everything in my power to make that day come much later than 40's or even 50's.

So, all that aside, I'm going to go for it. I will work out the work schedule and family schedule to make it work. If I don't make getting healthy a priority now, then it never will be and I'll be another statistic of heart disease deaths.

Thanks guys.