This last weekend was a good finish to a tough week of training. After doing my first 20 mile run two weekends ago I realized that my legs took too long to recover. I have been skipping many of my short weekday training runs because of cross training for other events or work or any other variety of reasons. I realized that if I want strong legs for the full 26.2 miles of the race, I will need to religiously follow my schedule the rest of the way.
Last week that meant, 5 miles Tues. 7 miles Wed. and 6 miles Thurs. a day off Fri. and a team long run of 13 on Sat. I can honestly say that last week was the hardest training of the year so far. My legs took till Wed to loosen up from the previous Sunday's 20 miler. The temp was cold cold and colder, and one day I had to run in the dark with the snow, ice and traffic. I was determined not to short out the schedule. Marathon training is a long slow road to get your legs into shape. Patience is not something I am used to, but I really appreciate what I am learning. I know if I stick to the schedule, I will have the power I need to run my best race. Besides the fact that I don't want to end up with a pesky injury.
Today I got in my easy 5, because the broom ball season starts tonight. Tues is 7, Wed is 30 minuets of tempo running, and Thurs. is 8, culminating with the last 20 miler on Sat. the 22nd.
I am really glad that I have all this running right now, because I am really enjoying the food that comes around this time of the year.
In the past week my eyes have been opened to the amaizing works of God. This summer I have over focused on training and raising money for TNT. I am proud of my accomplishments and am passionate about why I am doing it. Yet, as life goes sometimes, when you get really focused on one thing, other things get ignored. That one thing in my life is my daily walk with God and the attention I have been giving Him. I have grown in many ways this past year personally, and have learned so many things about myself and been encourage buy countless others. I am thankful for every bit if it, yet when I take stock of it all, I know I have shorted my growth with my God my Saviour. The one that has made all this possible! I have seen Him work in people and situations all throughout the year all around me. It has been amaizing! Yet, I haven't slowed myself to listen to what He has to say to me. That should be a daily occurance for me, at worst, a weekly event called church. I am not for one second going to allow an ounce of disappointment downcast my spirit. Yet, I am going to pay attention, and start to make choices differently. I need to do what I should have been doing all along. I need to be lead and inspired by my creator God. He is the one that has given me the ability to do all these things. And he alone has brought all these people into my life to make it all possible. It is to Him be the glory. I am just a servant. I can do only so much. But with Him, "All things are possible."
TO HIM BE THE GLORY!
2 comments:
Amen.
You truly are a leader in your ways.
Sarah
Amen Drew, Amen.
When I read your postings, I look for these moments of your life - what you're learning about God. It's wonderful to see what you're doing in memory of Adam to help children! But the lasting prize is heaven and it's nice to get those glimpses of how you're "running for the prize..." (1 Cor. 9) and to see your testimony along the way. When spectators see the final race at the Olympics, they have not seen the years of training behind the scenes, only that one moment of glory...
May your glory here on earth (and your reward for training) be a holy life which radiates Christ, attracting the lost to the Kingdom of God. May your intimacy with God grow so deep that your witness of Him is ever-flowing in all that you say and do. And may this year be the best with your family that you have ever had!
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