Saturday, November 17, 2012

Making Commitments

I know it isn't January 1, but then I'm not making a New Year Commitment.  After all, most New Year Commitments are over by January 2.  I know...I've made many of them.  But over the years, I've learned that making a Commitment is about dedicating yourself to the truth of who you are and working at it daily.  I've also learned much about "Grace" in the process.  After all, we love baseball players who have batting averages over .300.  In other words, we like people who try and may only get it right 30% of the time...but I think it's not the getting it right that we want...but the fact is they keep trying.

So I'm going to keep on trying and help the process...I'm going to make it public...or as public as this Blog page.  I intend to run a marathon in all 50 States by 2015...and I get to count the ones already done.  So I'm currently standing at 8 states, VA, PA, MD, MS, LA, TX, OH, and CA.  Can't count DC because it's not a State.  So I'll pick up Deleware in December, which gets me to 9 States. Thus from 2013 to 2015, I'm making the commitment to do 41 marathons in 36 months.  Okay...I guess it's time to pull out the map book and the racing calendar and figure out how to make this all happen.  Oh, and for you who are also interested...there is actually a club for this...50 States Marathon Club.  I know it's an original name, but you must have completed 10 states before joining.  Here is their link http://www.50statesmarathonclub.com/.  No, I don't know if there is a cure for this kind of illness, but I'll keep running until they figure out how to cure it.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Best Month of Running in 10 no 12 years

October 2012 is in the books, and for me, it was the best month of running I've had since 2000.  What made such a solid month for me was the consistency of those runs.  In the past few months and years, I would have a good week or two in a row, then a few bad weeks.  When I looked over the logs, I noticed an increase in injuries because I tried to make up for the bad weeks by over-running the following week.  So the difference was just being consistent and running 5 to 6 times a week, even if it was just a short mile run.  So this month was basically four weeks of the reliable running of 5 or 6 days of running, even if it was a short run.