Are you, or do you know someone who is, running the Disneyland Half-Marathon on Sunday? If so they’ll be in good company. Perhaps they’ll even meet Kyle, a weight-loss champion who once topped out at 406 pounds, but now is down to 247 and running 11 miles.
A little more than a year ago, Kyle Wright weighed 406 pounds and was addicted to Milky Ways and In-n-Out Double-Double’s.
“If someone told me I’d be running a half marathon,” he says, “it would have been a punch line to a joke.”
Let the laughs begin.
He’ll have to push it a little to make the full distance. But I wish him and all the other runners the best of luck. (Read more at the OC Reg)