My sister and her son were at the first 5K I ever ran. My nephew kind of caught the bug from me and said he wanted to run the next one. So we found one in the area and the next month they came down and we ran our first race together. Last November we ran our 4th race together and both placed in our age divisions.
He posts on my facebook wall that his school is hosting a 5K for a fundraiser and he wanted to know if I would like to run it with him. I was elated! I am always game for a race! As I started making mental arrangements around that date I realized I am not prepared to run a 5K because I've been training for the half marathon.
Today I will run my first ever 10 miles (hopefully!) and the distance isn't the problem. I haven't been working on speed at all. I've been working on endurance and distance to get ready for the half.When I was training only for the 5K I added distance mostly for endurance and worked on speed in between. I got a little nervous at the thought of a 5K!
In my life I see this same scenario. Some situations and trials are like running a 5K - it's short and it's over. Other trials are more like the marathon, you run and run and run. I think sometimes emotionally we try to treat the little things that happen like they are a marathon and we drag them on and on and on long after they should be dealt with and done. Then when something big hits we try to make it go away and do not deal with it properly as if it will just go away in the morning.
Hebrews 12:1 encourages the believer to lay aside all the things that are weighing us down so that we can run the race set before us. Isn't that what it's all about? I cannot run your race and you cannot run mine. And we may be experiencing and training for different events that only God knows about. So for today - let us run toward Him while running the race He has set before us to run.
He posts on my facebook wall that his school is hosting a 5K for a fundraiser and he wanted to know if I would like to run it with him. I was elated! I am always game for a race! As I started making mental arrangements around that date I realized I am not prepared to run a 5K because I've been training for the half marathon.
Today I will run my first ever 10 miles (hopefully!) and the distance isn't the problem. I haven't been working on speed at all. I've been working on endurance and distance to get ready for the half.When I was training only for the 5K I added distance mostly for endurance and worked on speed in between. I got a little nervous at the thought of a 5K!
In my life I see this same scenario. Some situations and trials are like running a 5K - it's short and it's over. Other trials are more like the marathon, you run and run and run. I think sometimes emotionally we try to treat the little things that happen like they are a marathon and we drag them on and on and on long after they should be dealt with and done. Then when something big hits we try to make it go away and do not deal with it properly as if it will just go away in the morning.
Hebrews 12:1 encourages the believer to lay aside all the things that are weighing us down so that we can run the race set before us. Isn't that what it's all about? I cannot run your race and you cannot run mine. And we may be experiencing and training for different events that only God knows about. So for today - let us run toward Him while running the race He has set before us to run.
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