Today was a first for me. Many of us joined
the March of Dimes March for Babies in honor
of Lydia Grace Focosi. Her legacy will live on
forever and I thank Amy and Mike for allowing
me to part of this journey and walk-a-thon today!
The 4 mile walk went much more quickly than I had
expected. I was actually able to do it with quite umf!
It felt good to weave in and out of the walkers so that
I could keep my heart rate up for a majority of the walk.
Praise God!!!
I'll admitt that I'm a bit addicted... I'm curious as to when
the next one is??? There is no doubt about it that Emily
and I (along with anyone else who wants to join us) will
be doing the mini-marathon in 2010. I know, I know...
some of you think that I belong in the looney ben for
making such a statement. But, what no one knows about
me is that God has been laying this on my heart for well
over a year now! I could never come to grips with this
nudging because I was terrified to fail. TERRIFIED!
Did I mention terrified? YES!!!!
So, now that I'm a runner... I have to start thinking like
a runner, acting like a runner and living like a runner.
There is no turning back... running is my new best friend!
I will start researching and educating myself about running,
jogging and power walking. This is a new high for me!
Most of you know me well enough to know that I'm always
"addicted" to something....RUNNING is it!
I used to burn with envy.. I mean true envy.. when I'd see
a runner. I hated the very fact that they had the ability
to run a distance with endurance, steadfastness, perseverance
and so on! I hated their fit little body.... yuck!!! What arrogant
little "fitness queens or kings" they must be!!!! My thoughts
were nasty and full of envy and jealousy! Thus, my biggest
prayer is that no one will ever feel that way about me!!!
When I become fit and run all the time,
I want to put a sign on my body that says "I used to weigh
272 lbs...so don't hate me because I run!!" Okay.. enough of that.
God can move mountains, because I'm living proof of that!!
I will run.. I will run a mini-marathon... I will train for it...I will
praise God and allow him to work through me for HIS glory!
I long for the day to reach the finish line and rejoice in HIM!
By the way, this is the very first time in my life that I've set a
"long-term goal". That word used to scare me!
Now, if I can just get that mindset in other areas of my life...
keep praying for me.. He is at work!
love you,
k
Life is Good because of God! Thumbs up!!!
5 comments:
Wow! When we run that mini-marathon, we should get matching shirts. Mine can say, "I'm doing this for my heart and my God." Yours can be an advertisement for Elston. (tee-hee)
Love you.
I so thought you were going to say "this is a first...at the march they had icecream and pizza (FOR FREE!!!) and I just said NO!"
Which is to give you props for saying no to it-as you said, why is free food always so darn unhealthy. I bet the food at the minimarathon isn't unhealthy.
Anyway, after today and my energetic 4 miles with a very sore ankle-who knows, maybe I'll train with you. How bout you start telling me everything you learn about running and encourage me and we'll see how it goes. I actually enjoy power walking-but I don't like jogging. I'm with Amy on the side pain and blood in the throat feeling-but God can do anything so maybe this is Him talking thru you-I've always wanted to be a runner too. I just don't know-are all people able to be runners???
I think you and Emily will do great at the Mini-Marathon! I tell everyone that I don't like to run, but the truth is that I am also jealous and envious of those that can and do run! Maybe I oughta jump on the training to run bandwagon?!!
If anything we could all do the walk-run version of the mini-marathon...run 5 minutes, walk 1. or something like that. There are different ways to train for it...and it doesn't all have to be running. I initially was going to do the full run...then I downgraded to the walk-run...now I would only walk it. Except that I think 13 miles walking with no one else would just be too boring and probably not worth finding parking in downtown Indy, etc.
Way to go with your long-term running goals. The mini-marathon sounds awesome. I could see myself fitness walking it...I've always been interested in doing that, but not running. I love Emily's idea for your shirts for it, ha :-)
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