River Run 08

I started this blog October 9 2007 and the first one was “Running the Good Race”. My goals were 2-fold, to increase my faith – dig deeper – grow closer to Jesus and secondly, improve my time and distance at the 08 River Run. Here is a small excerpt from that first blog “Last year at the beginning of the training I could run for 1 minute before I had to stop. Then after 12 weeks I could actually run a mile without stopping. This year, that is my start point. One mile, 17 minutes. Hey, it’s a start!! I have consistently worked out 3 days a week and two of those times being jogging. My goal is to run for 30 minutes without stopping. I’ve reached 22 minutes before. But I want a consistent pace. Building upon an already established work..moving forward, same with my faith..moving forward going deeper.”
Well it is now March and last weekend I did complete the RRun..all 9.23 miles. My personal goal was to be able to run 3 miles without stopping..and I did 6!! I was so excited and pumped. I ran probably total of 8 miles altogether. Walked up the Hart Bridge, as was my plan see this FL Times Union photo: http://photos.jacksonville.com/mycapture/enlarge.asp?userphoto=0&image=18072230&thispage=2
The wind was so bad my hair was standing up on end! 40 mph winds! Anyway my time was 2 hrs and 7 mins. I started in Oct at 17 min mile run and improved to 12 min mile run and on the course I ran 14 min miles. Before I get too proud sounding, Jackson de’ Ville way beat me..in full costume!! Ugh! Not right.
As for the spiritual growing part – wow. If I could only tell you some stories!! I will say this – the end result – I’ve had to talk to Jesus more, trust God more and depend on Him more..guess I have begun to reach my Oct 07 goal of growing more, huh.