Sometimes when you go for a two mile run, it's not to do speed work or because you're super fit and need to stick to your strict training plan (in which case it would be more than two miles anyway). It's not even because you want to keep your current fitness level current.
Sometimes you go for a two mile run just because you feel like you can't. You put on your running shoes and grab your ipod and go just because you need to know that you can do it. You know that you can run the two miles without stopping simply because you've done it so many times before.
And you find (regardless of what you think of my theology here) that at some point in your run, the need to stop overwhelms you and just when you feel no choice but to give in, God brings just the right song onto your ipod. That well-timed song pushes you beyond what you thought you could do and not only do you finish that run, you kick it up and finish strong. And then you almost throw up.
But I ran the whole two miles.
2 comments:
Thanks for sharing Kelly. It was very timely for my day.
omg...i just experienced a run like that last week. i was not running because of an injury and went out for fear of not being able to do it and i wanted to stop so much but just the right songs kept playing and pushing me on. :) it's true for every situation in my life...music has such a great influence on me!
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