Running Motivation and Then Some

 

Caution: This post is a minimally edited rant on a run. Writer may have been on a semi-demented running high. 

Sagada: An Impromptu Getaway (Wordy Post and Photodump Alert!)

    Having lived in Baguio for a good part of my life, people are often surprised when I say I haven't been to Sagada. I am surprised myself not because it is "nearby" (for the record, it's a six-hour trip by twisty, turny, high altitude road ) but because I've had many opportunities before then, I just didn't take them.

Faith and Running

Please believe me when I say I've got a full article in my head about this topic which I'm going to post on here sometime (soon!). For now here is a handful of one-liners from my most recent record-smashing saturday long run:

Faith and Running: It's okay to walk. Just never stop moving forward.

Faith and Running: After a mountaintop experience, do not let up at the crest of the hill. Carry the momentum going down.

I learned that when I run fast enough, I am stripped of all my thoughts save one: God is awesome!

More to come, meantime here's something that hopefully inspires your running as well as your faith: Ryan Hall: the Faith Interview

The Story of This Blog

I am choosy with the challenges I take. I may catch one between my teeth and crunch at it with all my might. Others I elude. I have been eluding writing this blog for as long as I can, for many different reasons as you will realize soon. The title itself is heavy to bear as it is. Beautiful Feet. I have not been up to the bible's definition of the phrase of late, and so I have put this debut off for even longer. But now, I am taking on the challenge.

This blog arises from the challenges I chose to throw at myself. Carefully picked but at the same time, with a sense of destiny, I feel like I was born for them, like God has set me up to accomplish them.

I am challenging myself to run like I've never done before. To run longer than I have ever gone. To run faster without regard for mile management (it's a runner thing ;)) To train with a discipline I never thought I'd muster.

I am challenging myself to write like I've never done before. To write not only more, but deeper, more relevantly. More beautifully. Artfully. In such a way that it reaches out to the soul. And inspires it to greater things.

I am challenging myself to go places like I have never done before. Not maybe farther or more often (although that would be great as well) but to find beauty in every place I go. To find God in every corner. Or to bring Him there.

Lastly, I am challenging myself to grow in my faith like I've never experienced before. To seek God, even more passionately, to learn to  rely on Him more consistently, more completely. And to be conformed to His likeness more and more.

I am putting up this blog as an audit of sorts.  A place to keep track of what I have committed to. So yes please, follow my progress here and feedback on me. In turn, I am throwing this challenge back at the occasional reader. Go challenge yourself and run along with me.