Some humor...

This is how I feel sorta...



I took a little journey up the stairs to take a shower after I got home. Took a while. How can I be so graceful running up and down trails for three hours this morning and then can't walk up and down stairs? So not fair!

Some simple steps to becoming a trail runner... This is a great site I like to go to some. The humor is well, dirty, but that may be all the trails those guys run.

So I had a pretty good run this morning. I think my average was around 13 minutes per mile. Hard to imagine that twelve years ago I was able to run two miles in the same time. But I guess back then the idea of running 10+ miles was just as ludicrous, so it works out I guess. #79 You strap on your water bottles and walk the hills... in a 5 K race and consider that your 10 minute pace is a blistering pace.

Sorry for the interruption... the pizza guy showed up. So that was random, but he literally looked at his stub and said thanks. He looked at his tip! Who does that? As my wife said, at least he didn't complain or say thanks cheapskate or something...

So this week I went and got taped. If you hadn't heard I'm trying to rejoin the ANG as a chaplain's assistant. But I have to lose some weight first. Really the weight loss isn't the goal. According to the Air Force I'm supposed to weight no more than 191 pounds. I guess I could cut off my left leg... that'd make up the difference maybe. But the other option is I can have a low enough body fat percentage. The way they check that, they measure my neck, my waist, my height, plug that into a really complicated calculation and voila, they have my percentage. I tried to ask for a waiver. I argued that if I complete 100 miles in November that surely that'd count for something. Right?

So I went up an inch from last month to this month. What?? Oh well. So back to the training plan. It practically goes up exponentially over the next few weeks so I'm sure that'll help somehow. By the end of the month I'll be up around 20 on Saturday and probably 10-15 on Sunday.

I'm actually excited at that prospect, even if it doesn't sound like it. I'm positively curious how much strength God's going to give me during this process! :-)