Stay Strong - Run Long

This is one of my favorite spots in the world and one of my favorite foods

Hey everyone, Most of you have wanted to know what my route is going to look like for the run below. Here it is: Stay Strong, Run Long, Tha Messenjah

This one is going to be a very real post so brace yourself This past weekend my wife and I had our first "date" in more than a year. We got a sitter and decided to go to the Purpose for the Pain tour event that was taking part at our church. This event was being put on by our student ministry and in conjunction with To Write Love On Her Arms . It is an organization that was started by a friend of a girl named Renee who had been turned away from treatment facilities while she was dealing with depression, cutting, drug abuse, etc. A couple of her friends took it upon themselves to live with her for every second for 5 days to "break" her self-destructive patterns and inject God back into her life. They then started a movement to help people just like Renee break the chains of her afflictions. It is a world wide phenomenon and what I feel is an important movement. I had heard about it a while ago and always thought that it was important, but never really delved into the...

I stand here today writing this officially as a "race" organizer. Well, not really a race, but more like a fund raising campaign. We all go through life trying to find our purpose and a class that I am taking at Church is called "The Great Adventure" made me realize that even more recently. It is part of our Men's Fraternity group and some of what we have been talking about lately is finding your passion and using the gifts and talents you have to find that one thing in life that excites you. We are also going to be starting a great campaign at Church and I thought what better way to use my gifts to better the Church and a little part of the world. I have been praying for a long time to find my purpose and God has really been pushing my heart to use my love for running to do something. I have always wanted to run for a charity, but never found the right one. I could run for children's cancer research, I could run for cancer research, I could run for homeless...

Hello all, Today I decided that I was going to get a real worthwhile run in. I wanted to do 10 since that would be the longest in the last couple of months. OUCH!!! I have done a couple longer runs 7-9 miles, but hadn't broken the double digits lately. I made sure to check the weather this morning before I left so I knew what lied ahead. Meterologist Jeriann said "Cold." Dang It!!! Why on the day that I decide to take a longer lunch and do a long run does she have to say stuff like that. I threw a long sleeve t in my bag and headed off to work. While I was at work all I could think about was fueling properly before I went. I had a great amount of water, a good breakfast and an apple about an hour before heading out. I also decided that I was going to take a different route, monotony kills your sense of adventure when running. I also decided that I that I was going to do something that I hadn't done in a while, take my iPod. There are a couple of reasons why I haven...