Today was the 2nd weigh-in of our competition.  I lost 2lbs this week!  Sweet!  C. lost 1 (barely).

I have successfully worked out 3 times this week and will count tomorrow’s football practice as half of one!  I was a bit concerned at how much I would workout since C. was out of town.  But I got myself to go even though it was a lower intensity than normal.

Monday – Basketball – this is easy and I even played 2 games

Wednesday – Ran 1.2 miles + 30 pushups + 40 situps + 10 bench jumps.  I didn’t work out for too long cause it got dark and I was getting paranoid

Friday – Since I got off work before 6 I was happy there would be daylight.  Ran 2 miles + 60 pushups + 60 situps

I really wanted to see how long it would take me to run 2 miles on flat land but I failed at using my watch – after I had run 0.8 miles I realized the timer wasn’t even on.  Then on the next 0.4 miles I turned it on and realized it picked up from the last run which I didn’t know what it ended at.  Finally, set the last 0.8 miles correctly and it took either 8:21 or 8:41 but that’s with me running pretty fast in the last 150 meters or so.

The craving workout feeling is strange and very real haha and I keep being hungry!!!

I went to Flood this morning with some friends and I was reminded how much I really liked Flood.  I used to go to Flood back in college and really really enjoyed it.  I also love Flood’s worship.

Funny thing is that Matt Hammett’s message was based on the same passage that we had at Exodus last week and even the first two worship songs were the same!

Oh yeah, hooray for free coffee!

I ran 3 times this week for a total of 7.5 miles.  Running is tough.  The hill on nobel is difficult the first time up and even more difficult the second time up.  Feels like it takes forever.  And I always am so out of breath once I reach the top that I slow that quite a bit to rest and catch my breath.  During the run I always want to stop, especially after the first mile but kind of force myself to keep going.  It’s been good so far.  I think each time I’ve run it faster.  I’m starting to kind of crave these workouts even though I don’t enjoy the running part when I’m doing it.

However, I feel good afterwards.  Like right now, I feel pretty good.  I also feel much stronger and think that I am in much better shape than I’ve been in awhile.  The last time I tried to run on a regular basis was that mini training I did for a 5K back in 2006.  Also, while I’m working out, I don’t think of anything else.  It really helps clear the mind which is good since I’ve been pretty stressed out lately.

I really hope I can keep this up but my first challenge will be next week since C. will be out of town.  I’ll have to try to really hard to go on my own but I know I easily succumb to laziness.  I’m also fighting daylight which means to make it to the workout, I need to start by 6pm.

Still need to work on the situps though.  It takes me way too long to do them and I get out of breath and tired after 8.  Haha.  Weak.

Hey, at least this will hopefully keep me from cramping in football.

A bunch of us drove up to Long Beach this past weekend for the Beach Palooza.  Let me tell you, running on soft sand majorly sucks.  Not that I really trained hard for this 5K obstacle course but we did want to make an attempt to complete it in a somewhat reasonable time.  The last 5k obstacle course we did was Warrior Dash where we clocked in a slow time due to the fact that everyone waited for everyone.  Haha.  This time around we wanted to make an attempt.  I think my “training” went as far as running maybe once a month on average.  The most I had run in one duration was roughly 2.7 miles.  But man, running on the soft sand was so hard!  I couldn’t do it for very long at all.  And the obstacles were so far apart and then they weren’t even as cool or fun.  Boo.  I gave Beach Palooza pretty bad reviews in their survey, haha.  But it was still fun to just hang out with everyone, get a pineapple hat, and t-shirt.

I also bumped into 2 people from high school that I haven’t seen since…high school.  Random!

I should probably keep up with some running but its going to be hard.

And I’m really only blogging about this so I can look back and remember what I did in 2011.  Haha.

Today I feel strange.  It’s a feeling that I can’t describe, at all.

I’m drawn to sunsets.  I like chasing them.  I should go see them more often.

I like cloudy skies.  Cloudy skies with a big bright sun.  Makes the sky look magnificent.

Overused…

“We’re close…” – referring to “close to being done/complete.”

“It’s a simple integration” – it’s never simple.

“We’re onboard” – of course you are…

Sometimes I feel like God answers prayers in ways we can’t imagine.  We have this idea in our head of what we’re seeking or pray for things to happen but when the prayer is answered it doesn’t always fit into how we wanted it to be answered or expected it to be answered.

Never satisfied right?  How sad is that.  I’ve had a prayer, maybe two, answered recently and I’m thankful but I’m also like…BUT…what about this…or what about that.  My prayer was answered yet I am not fully satisfied – why?  Geez, makes me feel so demanding, needy, and ungrateful even though I should be really happy because God hears me.

What a horrible flaw…never satisfied.

I need to trust more and allow God to take control of things.

It’s the principle that counts.  Not happy.