I decided about three weeks ago, kind of on a whim, to run the Rock and Roll Half marathon in Virginia Beach. Then I started running 2-3 miles a day and realized that 13 miles is a long, long, long run and it will take about 2 hours of non-stop running to finish. It was overwhelming and I got kind of mad because I payed about a 100 bucks to suffer for 2 straight hours. I found a training schedule online written by some guy who's run about a 100 marathons. The training schedule starts out at 3 miles and adds about a half mile per week. I can set a small goal of running an extra mile every two weeks. I try not to let myself think about running 13 miles when I'm in the middle of a 3 mile run because I almost start to cry and want to stop running right then.
So I'm already up to a 5 mile run which I ran on Saturday. It feels great to have this big time goal of running the half marathon over Memorial Day weekend. I need some kind of big goal like that to be motivated or else I would only run like 1-2 miles every other week. I remember growing up in school and hearing people talk about setting goals in life. I always thought it was stupid because whatever I wanted to do, I just went and did it. Then things in my life started happening like college, marriage, saving for a house, career advancement, and a lot of other grown up stuff. Maybe goals could actually help me overcome laziness.
I think I need to set some spiritual goals in my life. Goals for reading my bible, prayer, and community service. I always start out the year with the goal to read through the bible, pray for a few minutes a day, and maybe do a habitat for humanity or some project like that. Sadly, by the end of Feb or March, most of those goals are gone.
I'm challenging myself to write down some new spiritual goals for the next three months. I'll write those down in my next blog post. I gotta think about them for awhile.