Welcome to My World

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog! To be 100% honest with you, I'm not exactly sure what I'm trying to accomplish with this blog besides the fact that I'm going to give my FANS (haha) a chance to follow the life and times of Josh Gentry. Parental supervision recommended....just joking!

I recently took on a new adventure/challenge. My entire life I have always hated to run, in fact I can truly say that I've despised running. That being said, one thing that I love to do is take on a challenging goal and then work my tail off to acheive it. So I decided that training for a half marathon would be a good goal to set for myself. I knew that this would not only challenge me physically but also mentally, largely because I'm not a man of patience and I knew that training for a half marathon would take a great deal of patience and time. So about 12 weeks ago I began training. Starting out I was running about 6-7 miles per week and eventually worked my way to 18-20 miles per week thanks to Hal Higdon and his great workout. (http://www.halhigdon.com/halfmarathon/index.htm) I strongly recommend this workout if you are training for a half marathon for the first time. Anyway, I was eventually to the point where I felt prepared for the race so I made my way to Wichita, KS on October 10th and completed it! I was also able to record my best pace which was about 7:30/mile....my total time was an hour and thirty-seven minutes.

Now that I've completed my goal and finished the half marathon I'm satisfied.....NOT!!! I have actually now decided to train with my buddy Brady for a full marathon. We started training this week (basically just kept running like every other week!) and we will be heading somewhere warm for the race in January or February. It looks like possible destinations at this time include Orlando, New Orleans, San Antonio, and Phoenix. If you have any suggestions then please give me your feedback!!

Oh and another thing, if you are going to start running long distances and training for a race then buy yourself some good running shoes right now!! These will be your savior!! I was the smart guy that ran in cross trainers for the first few weeks and paid the price for it, I could hardly walk afterwards. Just my thoughts...