My First Race!

This past Saturday I ran my first 5k race!!! It was so SO much fun! next it will be a 10k, then next.... a 1/2 marathon!!! ok so anyway it never hurts to keep adding to your life's bucket list ey??

3.1 Miles in 25:23

Dont Quit

I did NOT feel like running this morning

I rolled out of bed at 5:45 did not want to go out and run. Slowly I tied my shoes and filled my water bottle. Dragging my feet I got myself to the gravel road and started running.  mile 1 seemed to drag by, let alone mile 2. let me tell you my mind gave me plenty of reasons why it would be good to stop. even just for a minute. but as I got to the stop sign at the end of my second mile something drove me on, for some reason my legs kept going. As I came to 2.5 I could give myself even more reasons to quite. But then I got to thinking - Why quit? why push my self just to give up at the last 1/2 a mile? what the world was I thinking???  I turned around and started up the hill for the last half mile! I kept thinking

dont quit,

dont stop,

dont give up,

keep going

and then......

I made it! 3 miles! the surge I got for finishing -- It was Amazing! I am SO Glad I finished! As I kept walking to cool down, my thoughts whirled through my mind.

What if I had quit? would I be excited about the accomplishment of pushing through and finishing? --No. I would have been

Frustrated
Discouraged
and Defeated


So why would we ever quit?-on anything? when the finish line is so close, WHY QUIT? nothing is ever easy, but thats why the end is so worth it!


Spiritually - sometimes we get so tired, and weak in our spiritual journey. theres days when it feels like we cant take another step. but theres no victory with out a fight! In our weakness, is where HIS strength begins. - Dont quit on God

Dont quit. DONT . EVER . EVER . QUIT.