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Staying Focused Would Be Easy if I Weren't so Easily Distracted

It really is easy to get distracted. Maybe it's just how overwhelmingly huge my goals seem from where I am living right now! I was so excited to sign up for the Chicago half that I forgot it requires a lot more training as they implement time constraints. I will have to improve my time at least just a little! And that was great the other day...but now I have to get out and run another 10-miler!

I took two days off because of a slight muscle strain. So that makes it easy for me to want to scale back a little. However, I have to build at least 3 more miles and the OKC half marathon is only a month away! The last week has to be tapered off so that you are running on fresh legs. (not that my legs could ever be really fresh!)

And now the blister healed...but I have an ingrown toenail.. perhaps I should scale back for this week....and...

Do you see where I am going with this? There is always a reason to drop off training, to scale back or to lighten up. But it takes discipline to push through to the bigger goal. That thing that excited me in the first place - you know - back when I actually signed up! But then the realities of running and training have started to settle in...every little twinge can cause distraction from my goal...and it doesn't have to be something major...

In life there are tons of distractions as well. But there comes a time when we just have to suck it up and keep running the race of life too! We cannot let the little day to day distractions keep us from our larger goal - serving God with all our heart.

So today I will run - I will ignore what I can and nurse what needs fixed so that I can keep pressing toward the goal. Paul said it this way:

Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect,
but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus
Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet,
But one thing I do:
forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ.
(Philippians 3:12-14)
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