Running

In an effort to get my body working well.  I have set out to begin running.  My goal is to be able to run a 5k.  I have no particular event or date (suggestions accepted should be ready in 6 weeks), but that is the goal.  In order to reach this goal I have started a couch to 5k running plan http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml. 

This morning I had absolutly no motivaiton to run.  We are on time off this week.  I have eaten terribly the last two days, and well I have a lot to do (yet here I am on the computer).  I sat starring across the kitchen table.  My husband came in the room, and looked worried as he asked if I was ok.  I must have looked really bad.  The reason for my not so great look was frustration.  Frustrated that I knew the right thing to do (RUN) yet I didn't want to do it.  I began to make excuses that I would do it that evening with the boys in the stroller, and how that would be better anyway.  (Yeah right! Running at 70 degrees in the morning alone is worse then at 90ish in the late afternoon with two boys in a double stroller with Ezra throwing book bombs that stop the stroller instantly and cause me to almost fall.)  So with much angst I decided to go out and pound the pavement. 

As I began walking my 5 minute warm up I started thinking about some issues and people and began to pray for them.  See to pass the time I listen to my mini iPod and pray.  I mainly pray on the running sections to keep from giving up and to dull the pain.  Lately those have been the easier part.  The walking about kills me as my left calf muscle has decided walking briskly is not its thing.  So running serves three purposes in my life.

1. It gives my body a boost releasing all those good for you hormones, while helping to decrease those not so great things like FAT.
2. It gets me out of the house (most of the time), and at times allows me time alone.
3. IT FORCES ME INTO A QUIET AND PRAYFUL TIME WITH GOD.

No wonder I always have an excuse not to do it.  Much like getting out of bed to be down for Bible reading with my kids in the morning, stopping for 20 minutes to read and journal, attend church, hosting small group, etc.  Running is one of those things Satan desperately wants me to not do, or resent doing. 
Yet what joy I get when I make the effort to do these things. 



"And that about wraps it up. God is strong, and he wants you strong. So take everything the Master has set out for you, well-made weapons of the best materials. And put them to use so you will be able to stand up to everything the Devil throws your way. This is no afternoon athletic contest that we'll walk away from and forget about in a couple of hours. This is for keeps, a life-or-death fight to the finish against the Devil and all his angels."

~ Ephesians 6:10-12 (MSG)~

 

 

So what is Satan trying to keep you from today?  Pray for strength and then GO DO IT!

Blessings,

Dennae