i figure that telling y’all my next challenge puts pressure on me to actually finish it. therefore i am using you (and this blog) as a guilt motivator. i have agreed with my brother-n-law and sister-n-law to run a half marathon race in mobile on january 14th. right now the longest i have run without stopping is 3.7 miles (36:29). a half marathon is 13.1 miles and that is allot longer than 3.7. this means that i have a great deal of training to do between now and january. so please feel free to nag me about running. i’m going to need all the help i can get.
today’s schedule
it was a tiring day. here was the schedule:
- 8:00 – 9:30 a.m. – early worship serivce @ pbc
9:45 – 10:45 a.m. – sunday school @ pbc
11:00 – 12:15 p.m. – late worship serivce @ pbc
12:30 p.m. – home for lunch
1:30 – 4:30 p.m. – repair the dryer that has broken (i.e dismantle dryer and vacum out all the parts, pull dyer in and find out it is still not working, now dismantle dryer again and vacum out parts that i missed and clean the exhuast pipe, check dryer and find out that it is working find and thus avoid an expensive visit to have a technician do what i could probably do myself)
5:00 – 5:45 p.m. – vist blaine & olivia at their grand father’s wake
6:00 – 6:30 p.m. – go to pbc choir special
6:30 – 8:20 p.m. go to the ring community church that meets in pbc – one of my youth’s parents was giving her testimony at the rind and thus pam and i wanted to be there to support her and thus i left parkview a little early to hear her testimony.
9:00 p.m got home for supper
i’m not complaining about the day. in fact, if it wasn’t for the fact that i ran my second 5k race yesterday i probably wouldn’t even be tired today, but i am and i figured i would write it down. 🙂
random quote – where would JESUS be?
if JESUS CHRIST were on earth you’d find HIM in a gay bar in san francisco. HE’d be working with people suffering from aids. these people are the new lepers. just like the turn of bc / ad. don’t touch them, walk away from them. if you want to find out where JESUS would be hanging out, it’ll always be with the lepers.
bono
telemarketing counterscript
here’s the telemarketing counterscript that i mentioned during the church welcome at today’s early worship service. this wonderful idea was thought up by the great people at egbg.
[Listening to: Fought The Law – Dead Kennedys – Freddy Got Fingered OST (2:19)]
how to handle westboro
westboro baptist church is looney and this is possibly the best way of handling them that i’ve ever heard of.
zoorun
today i ran my second 5k and i loved it. the race was the baton rouge zoo’s “zoorun”. this means that we ran through the zoo for the race. that would have been really cool because i could have watched all the animals except for the fact that after the first half-mile i couldn’t focus on anything other than breathing. the animals might have been doing acrobatics in their cages and i wouldn’t have noticed. in fact, the monkies could have slung poo at me and i probably wouldn’t have cared. i was too busy panting. anyhow, i finished the race and improved my 5k personal best to 28:28.
the other fun part was that adam and noah enjoyed last week’s run so much that they decided that they wanted to be a part of it. so me and the boys ran the 1/2 mile fun run before the 5k. they were great and they are now talking about running longer races.
my next step is to try a 10k and then a half-marathon. the problem is that all the half-marathon’s in the area are coming up sooner than the 10ks. this means it will probably be january before i can run a 10k and then the next half-marathon after that is february 4th. i don’t believe i can be ready for a half-marathon that soon after training to reach the 10k comfortably.
btw, pam hates the gold shirt and green pants that i wore today. i didn’t know this before the race and in fact i thought she would probably like it because i would be easy to see. yet i was wrong. she said it made me look as if i was on some tasteless running teams, which i probably am without knowing it.
david & colbert
our friend david sangakoya got himself on the colbert report. don’t worry david you can be my friend.
david & colbert
one of my students sent his picture in to be stephen colbert his photo for colbert’s search for a new black friend. david, the student, made it onto the show. he’s the first one of the video below.
happy birthday & happy 5k
first, let me wish a happy, happy, birthday to alycia austin. even though you are in costa rica and soon to be peru please remember that you are very important to us (the same goes for your whole family). we miss you around here.
secondly, i figure i would tell y’all that i ran my first 5k race this evening. the twilight classic 5k was earlier tonight and yours truly was a part of it. tonight during the race i discovered that running a race is very different from just running around my neighborhood. the first reason for this is that there are lots of different people involved (my favorite are the “hey look at me i’m an impressive runner” guys – what posers). i’ve never run with people before so it took me a little while to get used to the idea of being passed by or passing someone else (there was probably more of the “being passed by” than the “passing” on my part). the second reason it is very different is that there is allot more adrenaline going through your body durig a race. these two things factored into me not running my regular pace. the fastest i had previously run three miles (a 5k is actually a little longer at 3.1 miles) was 29:53 (or 9:57/mile). by the time i had hit two miles it was only 17:00 which means i was running 8:30 miles. this was way to fast for me and my body decided it didn’t want to continue at this rate. so quickly my mind (who wanted to continue running 8:30 minute miles because it would look impressive to beat my previous personal best time) and my body (who wanted to run a much slower pace and didn’t care a lick if i beat my personal best time or not) had a debate. my mind called my body a whimp hoping to guilt my body into running and my body responded by agreeing and promptly shut down. debate over. my pace slowed down considerbly.
after knocking down a few elderly men and women to make sure that i wouldn’t be last to finish the race i ended up finishing the 5k with a total time of 28:58 (9:19/mile). if you look in the paper tomorrow you’ll be able to see it for yourself.
[tags]running, 5k, race[/tags]
one by one
i haven’t posted anything about the one campaign in awhile and just thought i would post a friendly reminder that your voice can be a part of helping our nation to do what it has already agreed to do. by doing this we can help eliminate extreme poverty within the world. if you want a quick summary of this thing watch this video.