My apologies. Four weeks have flown by and I can't even really figure out what has changed in that time frame. Well, first of all, we had several weeks of 60 degree weather. Awesome. And I'm running longer and even faster now. I'm up to 3 minutes of running at a time. Sixty percent of the way towards my goal of running for a complete half hour. I'll get there. If I wait another four weeks to blog I'll almost be at my goal. Crazy.
Running has gotten easier as I've stayed disciplined to my schedule. However, it was significantly more enjoyable the day I started using my husband's Ipod. Wow. Miracle in itself. Music provided a way for me to truly drown out my {physical} pain or at least eliminated the need for me to try and entertain myself during my runs. I think the biggest bonus came when I realized I could run, or had the energy to run faster the quicker/ louder the beat of the music was.
And then my Ipod died. Wednesday, everything was going great, a very upbeat song came on, I felt myself really stride out. I was starting to let myself go to the music and then it stopped. Not going to lie, that was difficult, I definitely questioned if I should stop running at that point, could I make the rest of my run if I tried? I couldn't believe how discouraged I felt as I'd only had the Ipod maybe a week or two.
But I decided to run anyway, somehow I'd have to manage. I made it a goal to not to look at my time and only focus on my distance. That seemed to work much better - but it was so hard not having that music to depend on. I have to be honest, I was trying to recreate the music in my mind. The problem is I am no singer. Ask my mom, she'd tell me to go praise Jesus elsewhere. Ha :)
It reminded me of what it's like when I don't spend time with God. When I'm not in direct connection with Him because I've not chosen to spend time with Him. It's much harder to get through life. Besides, what is the point of living a life if you're not living for God?
Well, I'm off to bed. Tomorrow starts a whole new chapter for my life. Closing out my first 1/4 century and enduring my last 3 minute run before my increase of time. Good night!
