What happens when you cross a life long dream of running a marathon, along with the design of a bucket list Gospel tract, the need to loose weight and the prompting of the Holy Spirit? You guessed it – you start planning to run a Marathon. Many of you already know that I am training for this. So, I thought I’d give a quick update.
I am completing week 10 of training for the half marathon which is this Sunday, August 15th. I am using a training plan from Marathon Rookie. The web site also provides a 16 week training plan to prepare to run a marathon. So my plan is to start on that plan next week and then run the White Rock Marathon in Dallas in December.
This has been an interesting journey. As I started handing out the Bucket List tracts that we designed, I often found people naming the items on their bucket list. As they did, I’d ask, “do you think you will do that?” So it seemed, natural for me to do something on my own bucket list. I’ve joked with a number of people that I could have picked “riding the fastest roller coaster” and been done by just getting on a plane and going to an amusement park. But, I didn’t do that. So, Lord willing, I will be able to keep training and run the marathon in December to cross it off my bucket list.
Thanks for all the encouragement and support as I set out on this goal.
This week as I’ve considered running 13.1 miles, I decided I needed a verse. So I went through the Bible and looked up all the verses that are 13:1. The verse I settled on is Zechariah 13:1 which is a propehcy of the second coming of Christ:
On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
