Day 16

Daily distance: 3.02
Weekly distance: 3.02
Training distance: 60.45 miles
Pace: 8:17
Time/Temperature: 11:30 a.m. 45 degrees, party cloudy
Weight: 147

I was shocked when I completed this run to hear her day that I completed it in 25:02.  I honestly had no clue that today was going to be a fast run or that I would have a 7:30 minute mile!  I was so excited and shocked!  Perhaps the three days of trail running this weekend really did assist in my cross training speed work.  Running on the road today was like running on a feather.  I felt so good being able to heel strike and get in my normal gait and extend my stride.  I didn't have to worry about tripping and smashing my face.  I was able to enjoy my music and just run it appears run fast.  I got my shoes in the mail from my parents last evening and being in them helped a lot too.  It was just a great run.  I am excited for my training.

I listened to my "Amber's Peace" station on pandora today.  The feeds that came through my earphones were contemporary Christian and R&B.  The last song was a great piano song by the Piano Guys.

There was a specific time at the end of 2013 and the beginning of this year that I longed to run because of the closeness I felt to my precious Lord while doing so.  I was thinking about Him today on my run and just how much I love Him.  How He has been present in every second of my life and how He just blesses and blesses and blesses.  I am blessed to have the closeness with my Savior to understand that all blessings come from above and not all bad things do.  Satan rules this Earth and is constantly looking to steal, kill and destroy all that my Father has for me.  I feel deeply sad for people that get that all messed up.  That believe that the Lord of the Universe would ever try to steal from them, kill them or destroy them.  I get so sad that people won't get to know their Savior so that they can personally and intensely understand that He is the All in All and loves us all so much.  I feel that He has just taken over my runs as our date time.  *smiles*  That He knows it is time that He has me all to Himself.  No kids, no job, nothing else to distract me from Him and His love for me.  And sometimes when I get done with my run I just collapse on the ground with all the awesomeness that He has showered me with during it.  

  I run because it is a passion. I run because I deal with depression and anxiety and it is better medication than drugs. I run to hurt, to show myself that I do have feelings and they matter and that I matter. I run to remind myself that I have control over something in my life. I run to cry. I run to smile. That at least this ONE thing...no one else can alter. I run to show myself that I don't need to ever quit. I can keep going forever. I run for the Lord to talk to me and love on me, which he always does. I run to show the Lord that I care about myself. I run for my life.

~My facebook

January 30, 2013