The Day After

So I'm moving today.  That's a good thing.  Not as sore as I thought I would be but I certainly know where my quad muscles are thanks to hills.  Some soreness in my ads from working on how my core as I run.  But really, I'm not that bad.  I know I need to run tomorrow night if I can.  We are doing training around the state this week for work and will be getting late each day but I will certainly try to get moving.

One step at a time.  It's all I can do. 

Running for God

The author of the book got so into running that he was spending all his time running.  He would still make church but God really wasn't a priority.  A dear friend and he were talking and his friend said to him, "Don't let this (running) become your God."  Too often we let other things become our God, our idols.  We put our priorities into sports, our kids sports, our homes, our jobs.......  The list is, unfortunately, endless.

BUT, when we take our passion for other things and add God, abundance over flows.  That is what this man did.  He put God into his running and created Run for God.

There are some similarities to faith and running.  New runners start out doing short runs so not to overwhelm the body and the gradually work up to long runs.  In our faith we start with small parts of the Bible and work our way into deeper learning.  Running takes endurance and strength.  In running, as in our faith, sometimes we fall or get hurt and we must pick ourselves up and start over.   We must seek to heal ourselves and to grow stronger.  Through scripture and prayer, we gain the strength in our faith to heal and to grow.

I am suppose to plan to train for three days each week and to plan to run a 5K in about 12 to 13 weeks.  I have done a 5K but I have NEVER ran the entire 3.1 miles.  This is my goal for me in 12 to 13 weeks, to run the entire 3.1 miles.

So, like I have unofficially started this study, I unofficially did my first training today.  After church, I had +Marty Bowie  go "run" with me.  We went to Magness Creek and after a 5 min warm up ran for about 12 minutes.  I haven't ran since Thanksgiving Day when we did the Turkey Trot that Go Running put on.  So 12 minutes wasn't too bad.  I think Marty's watch said it was about 3/4 mile.  It was good for me but I feel bad for him.  He was just getting warmed up.  :(  I wish I could find him someone to run with but then I would loose my running buddy.

I have now read week 1 of the study and I'm not sure how the Bible study part works but maybe in week 2 I shall.

Prayers are most appreciated.

+Briggs Lyons +Andrette Prather

Run For God

Why am I reading this book?

Well the cheesy quick answer is, "I want to get in shape." But I that is too easy.  I can get into shape without reading this book.  But I want to do more then just get into shape.  I want to be inline with God's will: spiritually, physically and financially. Since we have decided that this is the year to get right financially, I am feeling that I need to work on the physical aspect too.  Why not do it all once?

I know that God doesn't want me to be wonder woman but He does want me to be able to do His work in this world.  And to do that I need to be able to physically go about the challenge of His work.  And to do that I need to take care of myself while growing deeper in my faith with God.  I really want to get where I can go on a international mission trip and I don't feel that is something I can do physically right now.  So, here I start this challenge.

With any luck I can persuade my darling husband and a few others along on this journey. +Marty Bowie, +Briggs Lyons

Running

Considering I didn't run all of December, I didn't loose as much ground as I would have thought. I had got to week 5 day 3, though never completed it, but starting back at week 4 hasn't been too difficult. We ran and completed day 2 last night and now for this week I just have to do day 3. I can then move back to week 5. I'm rather proud of myself. I would never have pictured me as a runner and I am only interested in 5Ks but running for my health isn't too bad.

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Couch to 5K

Back in June Marty and I started doing the Couch to 5K running plan.  Not really to get ready for a 5K but to get us off the couch and back to being active and healthy.  This is a 9 week program where you run 3 days of each week, so you would think we would be done by now.  LOL.  Well we're not.  Marty is way farther then me but he is going at my pace so I will keep doing it.  We are on Week 5 Day 3.  Day 3 is 5 minutes of warm up, 20 minutes of running and 5 minutes of cool down.  When we started, I could barely run for 1 minute and I could hardly imagine that I would run for 30 minutes straight.  We did Day 3 Week 5 on Sunday and I was able to run 14 minutes of the 20 minutes and travel 5 laps around the football field.  This is just amazing to me.  I have NEVER in my life ran 14 minutes for any reason.

I will let you know if I actually make it to 20 minutes.

My arm hurts

Have I told you my arm hurts? If you haven't seen me recently then you haven't seen me wearing my brace again. The wrist that I had the ganglion cyst removed from in July of 1999 is having issues again. I've been to the specialist and have had an MRI. The MRI shows nothing so the Dr. suggested getting a shot in the location of the pain and if that didn't work, he would order a bone scan. Well, if you know me, then you know I don't like shots so I refused that idea. He said he would put me in a brace for 6 weeks and we could see what I thought after that. I think he thinks this will change my mind about the shot. Though I'm very uncomfortable and it hurts to be on my beloved computer, I don't think so. Shots hurt and don't try to tell me I'm being silly. I've talked to too many people that have had cortizone shots and EVERYONE has said they hurt. Thanks. No. I'll pass.

The weather here is unusually comfortable. It's not too hot and in the evening and early morning it has actuall been in the lower 70's and upper 60's. I so wish we have been camping. We love to camp and have not been able to get out as much. If we do go, I've got to be back for Sunday morning so we can't go far. Gonna have to get a better plan for this some how.

The girls are loving SLUFY this summer and we have had an extra bonus with them going. My friend, Wendy, from college is one of the teachers and she has been staying with us during the week. It has been a lot of fun seeing her and her girls and just being together.