Marathon Moments--Day 2--7/2/2011

A little more success this morning....Gave up two cookies (of 4..HA!), had a banana, 3 Catalyst, and a Diet Coke.  :)  It's a little better, I guess?!?!

Start Time:  6:55am
Distance:  6.11
Pace: 10.12
End Time: 7:56 am
Calories:  850
Ended the week:  25.48 miles (Sun-Sat)

Tomorrow will be a rest day, which will include NO running, but I will do P90X Yoga X in my garage in 99° heat...so, that would be considered Bikram style??  Yes??  (I really think I would rather run!!)

Until next time...grace, peace, hope, love and prayers!

T

Marathon Moments--Day 1--7/1/2011

Well on Monday I got the news that I was in fact accepted into the Houston Marathon.  I'm anticipating that as the months, weeks and days pass, I will find myself full of excitement and probably on some days full of dread!  Today, I'm excited and full of hope.  I've decided that I really want to have a daily record of this journey, so those of you that get my blog because you love my cute and sometimes witty stories of my kids, it's not always going to be that.  However, just like my life parenting my boys and all that is autism, it's a journey and a struggle that I want to cherish and remember.  So today is Day 1 of my Houston Marathon Journey....

My Marathon goal is to complete it in 4hours.
Official Training Begins Sept 12 using the 26Point2 App for iPhone

Day 1
I've been mostly running at night 8-9 PM about 5-6 miles, 5 times a week.  I'm trying to log about 25-30 miles a week.  I'm a terrible morning runner, my per mile pace is about 30-60 seconds slower.  Today I decided I need to slowly start training my body for mornings.  Got up at 6:00 am, ate 4 cookies and drank a Diet Coke (what am I, an idiot??---dont' answer that).  Ran 4.18 miles, felt sluggish the whole time, but this thought kept creeping into my brain....what if I not only complete my first Marathon, what if I actually meet my goal of a 4 hour finish?  That's a good enough time to qualify for Boston!!  (THE Marathon!!)  Today, I really think I can do it!!  But I gotta start getting up early and NOT EAT COOKIES!! 

Stats for today:
Distance:  4.18
Pace: 10:42 per mile
Calories Burned:  580
Total for the Week: 19.37

Thought for the Day:
Nothing is Hopeless--If you ask me today if I can go out and run 26.2 miles in under 4 hours, I would tell you NO way!!  But this past week I've been studying Jeremiah 18 and I surely don't want to be like the people of Judah in verse 12 "But they will reply, 'it's no use.  We will continue with our own plans; each of us will follow the stubbornness of his evil heart'" My lazy heart tells me "why oh why are you doing this silly marathon, what are you trying to prove"...well my joyful heart tells me as does Proverbs 16:3 "Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed."  So you can surely see where my heart lies with my Savior and Lord and I have hope that my plans will succed.  And if this Marathon isn't part of His plan for me, well then so be it, but for now....I think it is!

Until next time....grace, hope, peace, love and prayers!

T

Oh yeah, he's got swag!

The last two days of picking Spencer up from school, he looks over at his Therapist Kori and says "eee, gon-k-ddis".  It's hilarious, he looks at her says it and starts cracking up.  She told me he's saying "redonkulous" and that he will look across the room even when they aren't working together, and say it.  I've been making him say it all the time, becuase it's so funny.  Well, the jokes on me, cause all along what I THOUGHT was a funny little word that he and Kori made up is actually "pop culture slang".  I heard it on TV last night and was like, whaaattt??? that's Spencers word, so I googled it and sure enough the Urban Dictionary has this definition....re.donk'u.lous adj. 1. significantly more absurd than ridiculous to an almost impossible extreme; without possibility of serious consideration.

Who knew, my boys got more swag than wiz kahfila. 

Have a REDONKULOUS weekend y'all!!


Until next time....grace, peace, hope, love and prayers!

T

It's the Little Things

It's been almost a year since I last blogged, but found myself reading those old posts and just about kicking myself for not keeping up with it.  The past week I keep telling myself, I'll blog later tonight and I don't.  Today I was going through my notebook..that dumping ground where I take notes from meetings.  It's a total wreck with work meetings, church meetings, etc.  I came across a sheet where I had given Spencer a highlighter and pen to "entertain" himself during one of these meetings.  I didn't think much of it at the time, but today as I was eating my "rabbit food" at my desk, I looked up and noticed a similar drawing from Feb 2010.  It probably doesn't seem like a big thing to most people that my son after 16 months has somewhat legible handwriting, but sometimes you just have to be thankful for the little things.

Drawing from Feb 2010

Drawing from June 2011

A good friend gave me a slip of paper that stays clipped to the first picture that gives me hope...

"I know that recovery lies ahead.  I believe that if we were the ones chosen to endure this hardship, then God will give us the grace to endure...My hope isn't based on my circumstances.  My hope is based on my decision to hope.  Hope is a choice." --Brenda's Choice--the choice to focus on her future beyond the storm.

Until next time, grace, hope, peace, love and prayers!

T

Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord.
But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.
Jeremiah 17: 5 & 7