I ate my Wheaties!

So I ran a personal best tonight. I wish I would have taken the video camera with me. 4.5 miles in 42 min.! My lower back didn't hurt after the first mile and my lungs felt GREAT! I have to than my friend Chad for his advice. I ended up walking for 30 seconds at mile 2.3 and it gave me a second wind to keep going. I have to agree with my wife though, running Nyack is getting a bit boring. (Not that it is easy, just monotonous.)

I think I will take the next few days off and then run again on Sunday.


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Recovery

I think I got enough sleep in the past few days in order for me to have a good run tonight. I am running with an app on my i-touch. It's Nike plus GPS. It tracks my pace and my goals. I like it.

Ouch, My Feet Hurt!

 

Another run tonight and I still don't feel 100%. I debated if I should have even gotten out of my chair to go. Sigh, I am in need of motivation! I did a 5k on the Nyack hills tonight in just under 30 minutes. It's not the 5k I'm worried about. It's moving past the 4 mile mark and making progress toward the 1/2 marathon.

On a side note, I'm down almost 10lbs. from when I started this adventure back in July.

God Encounter

So I went out to do my run tonight (I planned on running nothing but the stairs between Mosely and Shuman).  I started out with my I-pod and was excited to do some cross training. The thing is I got a new I-pod and loaded up all of the audio off my computer. I started out and just as I began to hit the stairs, I heard my voice speaking. Turns out I had forgotten that I recorded all of my youth group messages while I was in Ohio. As soon as it started I remembered the night. I spoke on Paul's "Thorn in the flesh". It was a night one of my students accepted Christ. As far as structure is concerned, the message sucked. It was illustration after illustration with a bit of exposition thrown in. But God showed up in a powerful way.
I'm actually listening to the end of it right not and some powerful stuff is coming out of my mouth. It took 20 minutes of talking for me to move out of the way so God could speak. As I become a better communicator, I pray the time it takes me to move out of the way would continue to decrease.
As far as the run is concerned... I did a few rounds of the stairs and ran a mile and a half. I have this pinching pain in my lower back that seems to keep coming back when I run now. Heck, I might need some Divine Healing :)

Tonight @ Chili's

This post has nothing to do with running. I just thought I'd vent. I went into work tonight at 4:30 and was cut at 6:30. I had one table and made $4.05. (It was on a $60 check... a bad tip would have been $6 but lucky me got $4.05! It normally doesn't matter but it was my only table)

Rain?

So I ended up running last night after class. I wasn't highly motivated but I still made it out. I only ran my 2.5 mile route tonight because my legs just felt too stiff. The rain had stopped before I began but I did manage to soak my left foot by running through a puddle.

I had to laugh because as I ran up to Simpson I came across a group of young guys. When I ran past them, one of the took off running by me as if to say, "Ha, I can run faster!" I kept my pace and ran behind Christy. As I came to the front, there were 3 other guys running with the first. I fell into file behind the group as I came out behind Christy. Keeping the same pace, I ended up passing them just behind Boon. It was then that they all stopped running. I did my lap and ran back up to Simpson and then down to Mosely. It was there in front of the gym that I passed them again.

My legs still feel kind of tight. I am going to just do stair sprints on Friday instead of my run to build up muscle strength. We'll see how it goes.

it's raining!

I am supposed to run tonight and it's raining! Hmmm... am I going to run in the rain? We shall see.