Training Journal – 6/24/12:
- Current plan: Half-marathon program
- Today’s session: Rest*
- Comments: *I’m not just layin’ around – I’m walking (~18,000 steps yesterday…).
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“Stepping outside the comfort zone is the price I pay to find out how good I can be. If I planned on backing off every time running got difficult I would hang up my shoes and take up knitting.”
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*No offense to the wonderfully-skilled knitters of the world…
Training Journal – 6/21/12:
- Current plan: Half-marathon program
- Today’s session: 6 Mile easy run @ 9:19
- Comments: Not sure how, but I hit the road a little earlier, so I filled the time and ran 7.25 @ 9:02
Training Journal – 6/13/12:
- Current plan: Half-marathon program
- Today’s session: 5 miles @ 9:19
- Comments: I did 6.2 @ 8:52
“We spend an enormous amount of time trying to get the world to align with the vision we have for what will make us happy or successful…”
Continue reading at: Seth’s Blog: It’s not all in your head.
Training Journal – 6/9/12:
- Current plan: Half-marathon program
- Today’s session: 10 miles @ 9:30
- Comments: I did 10.54 @ 9:17. I’m in Florida and running in the humidity (even at 6a) was a challenge. I usually don’t take walk breaks, but took a couple this morning. I guess the next few days will be good practice for the Honolulu Marathon…
Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you;
he will never let the righteous be shaken.
– Psalm 55:22
I read this today…so many aspects to chew on:
- Cast: to throw or hurl. I like this – God doesn’t need us to gingerly surrender.
- On: so as to be attached to. Such a departure from the far away or unapproachable description that is so wrongly assigned to God. This is up close and personal!
- Will: not may or might!
- Never: a powerful state. We often throw this word around lightly…”you never” or “we never”
- Shaken: a difficult one. It’s quite possible that my definition of this word is different than God’s. Maybe I underestimate myself in comparison to what God sees me capable of handling.
Training Journal – 5/31/12:
- Current plan: Half-marathon program
- Today’s session: 6 mi Easy Run @ 9:19
- Comments: I did 6.5 @ 8:32. While running, I thought about the fact that I was supposed to be at a 9:19 pace. I know I need to practice that pace thing, but I get in the mode… Maybe I need to re-assess training pace.
Saw this in a tweet today:
“For some, change is life. For some, change is death.
For all, change is difficult. And for all, change is mandatory.”
Training Journal – 5/12/12:
- Current plan: Half-marathon program
- Today’s session: Rest day
- Comments: Sleept in, pancakes – WooHoo!
Sometimes I like to visualize what I’m doing…
Two things:
- It is a verb, which implies activity or action. BOOYAH!
- I probably should have spent my lunch on that other thing…
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Training Journal – 4/26/I12:
- Current plan: Half-marathon program: taper week
- Today’s session: 3 mile easy run / pacing dry run
- Comments: Good 3.98 mile run. Pace plan of 8:52, 8:37, & 8:22. Results: 8:30, 8:29, & 8:24. I’m still a work in progress…
Inspiring:
“The oldest marathon runner in the world, Britain-based Fauja Singh, has ended on a high at the age of 101 years…As the Indian-origin athlete completed the 26-mile London Marathon on Sunday in a record time of seven hours and 49 minutes, he announced this would be his last race.”
“In all, Fauja, who turned 101 on April 1, has run eight full marathons in the last 12 years. He started running professionally at the age of 89.”
Read the whole story at IBN Live: Fauja Singh retires from full marathons – Sports – Athletics – ibnlive.
Convicting:
“We love because he first loved us. Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.”
1 John 4:19-21 [NIV]
Training Journal – 4/24/I12:
- Current plan: Half-marathon program: taper week
- Today’s session: 5 mile tempo: warm, 3 miles @ 8:20, cool
- Comments: Nice run. Tempo splits were: 8:05, 7:56, 8:03 – overall 5.25 miles @ 8:20. I keep telling myself that I need to get better at following my pacing plan if I want to be successful with a “time goal” half or full marathon plan. MUST FOCUS. MUST FOCUS.
The Memory:
As I came though the garage after my run this morning, this caught my eye. It’s the side of an old box that our wedding invitations came in from the printer. Some friends from church owned the print shop we used and wrote that on the box…ah, memories!
The Taste:
Training Journal – 4/20/I12:
- Current plan: Prep for Brazen Racing’s Western Pacific / bridge for half-marathon program
- Today’s session: 5 mile easy run @ 9:19
- Comments: I did 5.18 @ 8:48
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
– Psalm 51:1-2 NIV
…oft requested, yet not reflected in our relationships with others.
Or maybe it’s just guilty me…
Training Journal – 4/18/12:
- Current plan: Prep for Brazen Racing’s Western Pacific / bridge for half-marathon program
- Today’s session: 6 mile easy Run @ 9:19
- Comments: Nice morning – I did 6.6 @ 8:50
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