Am I proving Him o’er and o’er?
This song – that phrase – has stuck in my head since my morning run…
Archives For November 30, 1999
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22, 23
Funny how this passage is often read as a list of optional traits or on/off behaviors…
Training Journal – 1/19/12:
- Current plan: 10K Training
- Today’s session: 5 mile easy run
- Comments: Good run…
For those needed to augment their personal “excuse” or “reason” listing, the follow is offered:
The Complete List of Convincing, Unique, and Legitimate Excuses
[via the Blog Of Impossible Things]
Training Journal – 1/17/12:
- Current plan: 10K Training
- Today’s session: 5 mile easy run
- Comments: At about the 4k mark, I looked at the watch, did a “how ya doin’ ” check, and decided to run 10k (6.2 for the metric-challenged.) Good pace and time: 55:50 @ 8:57/mile!
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
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.
Ephesians 6:10
Thankful there isn’t a period after strong…
Training Journal – 1/14/12:
- Current plan: 10K Training
- Today’s session: Rest
- Comments: Rest day on the schedule but, after not running for three sick days, I picked up 5 miles on the log. Felt good!
These either hit my Inbox, were read, or were seen while fortuitously hopping around the Internet this past week:
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:
- Remember that God loves and chose – even before I messed things up (which He knew would happen anyway)
- 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!
- Train, train, train. Then: Improve, improve, improve. [don’t be satisfied with the “train” level]
- With running, nay with anything in life, don’t settle for GIGO.
- Make a list. Share it.
- 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.
Apparently, in the future, I haven’t aged, am svelte, eat right, still run, and take up hand gliding. Cool!
[Youtube]
Training Journal – 1/10/12:
- Current plan: 10K Training
- Today’s session: 4 mile run
- Comments: Nice run. Ran from the WDW Yacht Hotel to the Disney’s Hollywood Studios entrance, then around the EPCOT Resorts lake a few times. At ~51 degrees, it’s been nice to wear shorts while running…
I was jumping around some running forums the other day reading up on “Negative Split” running/training and happened upon a great “quotable” remark about running, training, and, quite honestly, life in general:
[I] Remember what a runner once told me as we were standing around for the start of a race… “No matter what you do now it won’t matter, your finish time was determined while you trained, so go have some fun.”
– mississippi.delta-runner on Runner’s World Forum
Well put, mississippi.delta-runner…well put.
Training Journal – 1/5/12:
- Current plan: 10K Training
- Today’s session: 6 mile tempo run
- Comments: Great run! Good tempo and I even had negative splits for miles 2-6.27 (after I
was awakestarted concentrating): 9:48, 9:25, 9:08, 9:07, 8:54, and 8:41.
A good read over at Seth Godin’s Blog:
“The pain of a lousy boss, of careless mistakes, of insufficient credit. The pain of instability, of bullying, of inadequate tools. The pain of poor cash flow, corrosive feedback and work that isn’t worthy of you.
Pain is part of work. And it leads to two mistakes.”
Read the rest here…
Training Journal – 1/4/12:
- Current plan: 10K Training
- Today’s session: Rest
- Comments: nada…
We may avoid announcing them in public or even outright deny making them at all, but I think most of us set some sort of goals or resolutions for ourselves each New Year. Maybe ones about fitness, work, school, family, or just life in general.
It’s good to have goals or resolutions…honest!
I read this article today and thought I’d share as my final 2011 post – where one of my resolutions was to post to my blog each day: which I accomplished. (A post about that is in the works.)
Anyway, enjoy the article – and by my calc, you have time to read, digest, and make your resolutions!
I’ve started my list and will post them next year!
Read the article here: The 10 Commandments of New Year’s Resolutions | Active.com.
Training Journal – 12/30/11:
- Current plan: 10K Training
- Today’s session: I ran in the Brazen New Year’s Eve 5K this morning.
- Comments: Good run – details tomorrow in a race report post.
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