From My Hope:

Nothing will change if all the plans I make go wrong
Your love stays the same
Your light will guide me through it all
I’m hanging on I’m leaning in to You

amen

Training Journal – 4/11/I12:

• Current plan: 10-Miler Training
• Today’s session: 6 mile Run @ with hill repeats in the middle
• Comments: Another run timed right to avoid the rain!  I did 7.05 @ 9:07 with 2.25 miles of hill repeats (increasing then decreasing slope and distance) sandwiched in the middle.  I wore my Road Runner rain jacket today (thinking it might rain) – I honestly think I need to find an alternative.

Recompense is made for the guilty and the shamed
For eternity is gained in the arms of the slain

Oh my soul, praise Him

Training Journal – 4/6/12:

• Current plan: 10-Miler Training
  
• Today’s session: 6 mile easy run @ 9:40
  
• Comments: I did 6.59 @ 9:07

We all say dis:
Da stuff bout God, dat befo time was secret, dass importan fo real kine.
Christ wen come, wit one body jalike us.
Godʼs Spirit wen show proof dat Christ stay right.
Da angel guys from God wen see him.
His guys wen teach da diffren peopos all ova da world bout him.
Get peopo inside da world dat trus him.
God wen take him back to da awesome place inside da sky.

- Numba 1 Fo Timoty 3:16 – da Jesus Book

Training Journal – 2/4/12:

• Current plan: 10K Training
  
• Today’s session: Rest
  
• Comments: Slept in!
  

Sometimes

Sometimes every one of us feels
Like we’ll never be healed
Sometimes

Sometimes every one of us aches
Like we’ll never be saved
Sometimes

When you’ve given up
Let your healing come
Till you’re rising up
Let your healing come

It’s your love that we adore
It’s like a sea without a shore
We’re lost in you, we’re lost in you
It’s your love that we adore
It’s like a sea without a shore
We’re lost in you, we’re lost in you
Sometimes

Sometimes
It’s like we’ll never atone
For all the love we’ve known
Sometimes
Like in a smile or a song
When you feel love come
And that feeling’s gone
It flies

When we’ve given up
Let your healing come
When there’s nothing left
Let your healing come
Till we’re rising up
Let your healing come
Where you go, we will follow
Where you go, we will follow

It’s your love that we adore
It’s like a sea without a shore
We’re lost in you, we’re lost in you
It’s your love that we adore
It’s like a sea without a shore
We’re lost in your, we’re lost in you
It’s your love that we adore
It’s like a sea without a shore
We’re lost in you, we’re lost in you
It’s your love that we adore
It’s like a sea without a shore
Don’t be afraid
Don’t be afraid
Just set your sail

And risk the ocean, there’s only grace
Let’s risk the ocean, there’s only grace
Let’s risk the ocean, there’s only grace
Let’s risk the ocean, there’s only grace

It’s your love that we adore
It’s like a sea without a shore
We’re lost in you, we’re lost in you
It’s your love that we adore
It’s like a sea without a shore
We’re lost in you, we’re lost in you

Where you go we will follow
I’m on my knees
Where you go we will follow
Oh, God send me

Where you go we will follow
I’m on my knees
Where you go we will follow

Sometimes

David Crowder
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Training Journal – 1/16/12:

• Current plan: 10K Training
  
• Today’s session: Rest
  
• Comments: nada
  

For He chose us in him before the creation of the world…

- Paul, Ephesians 1:4

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

- Japanese Proverb

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

- William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

Running is just you, the work you put in, and the clock. You can’t cheat yourself. If you don’t put in the miles, you can’t go to the starting line thinking you’re going to pull a miracle out of nowhere. You get out exactly as much as you put in.

- Desiree Davila

If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive.

- Kristin Armstrong

“We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves.”

- Sir Roger Bannister

…all worth of being chewed upon and actions being taken.

thus:

1. Remember that God loves and chose – even before I messed things up (which He knew would happen anyway)
2. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes or take risks, resolve to learn from them…and strive to not repeat the same mistake too many times!
3. Train, train, train.  Then: Improve, improve, improve.  [don't be satisfied with the "train" level]
4. With running, nay with anything in life, don’t settle for GIGO.
5. Make a list. Share it.
6. Don’t forget the fun part of running…and life!

Training Journal – 1/13/12:

• Current plan: 10K Training
  
• Today’s session: 5 mile run
  
• Comments: Still a bit under the weather…so I followed my wife’s counsel and rested today.