Sunday, April 26, 2009

reflection

Today is the one year anniversary of my father's untimely death.

It's also the one year anniversary of my car accident.

This means I haven't "really" been running in an entire year. I've run a few times (carefully) on the treadmill.

Now that the weather is nice it's time to get to running outside...let's see how my back handles it...

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Time moves on...next steps

The eight week interval training finished a few weeks ago now, but I was on the road for about two weeks and haven't had a chance to write.

Chari has suggested six more weeks of training by doing longer sets. These one minute (instead of 30 second intervals) will totally deplete the glycogen stored in my muscles. From what I understand this forces my body to pull from fat. This has to be a good thing.

I am trying to keep up with eating healthy. It was really difficult to do so on the road for over a week and I was a little frustrated. The good thing is that it made me more determined to eat right when I got home.

There was a time in my life where I woke up very early every morning to hit the road jogging. I have not done much at all since last spring, but with the weather changing and (finally) getting a little nicer I have been thinking about getting up early to run. I thought about it and prayed about it for a few days and felt convicted. Here I was considering and willing to get up early to run, but have never been willing to get up early to do my devotions. I have begun to get up early in the morning and spend quiet time with God.

Time is moving on. This is a good time in my life and I am thankful.