Yeah, but it’s lame being forced to take courses that don’t interest me. I suppose it helped my overall career by confirming I have no desire to be an administrator. This final class is called Educational Leadership and the last assignment was to cover the steps I’d need to take to redo my district’s vision statement. Yuck.
On the flip side, I’d be happy to complete a course on speed and agility and how to incorporate in a high school strength program…all while keeping workouts under an hour. Doesn’t that sound better?
This time the results were different. I timed the half mile walk separately to keep the heart rate data separate.
Time for sled and jogging: 21:40
Walking was 8:49 for 0.56 miles. I used the outside lane (3 lanes available) and was curious how the distance would work out. I use the middle lane for jogging.
Another thing worth noting is that my legs are sore from yesterday. I felt slow on the jogs - like my stride was shorter - but the times were better or the same and I wasn’t huffing and puffing as hard. I added weight to the sled, ran the same at a lower RPE, and reduced the time. Not a bad day.
This is SO hard. I have to remind myself often that none of the “stuff” matters in the end. We have eternity ahead of us. The goal of this life is to live it in a way that ends with us in heaven at the end of it, and to make it crowded up there!! If we’re still breathing, God’s not done with us. He makes all things work for good for those who love Him. Trust that He has more for you and His way, His plan, His timing is better than ours will ever be!! Sending you a big hug and lots of prayers. Keep on trucking!!!
Thank you. I’m trying to be resilient. “God’s ways are not our ways” is a pretty common theme. Wouldn’t it be nice if God’s path for us was obvious? I feel like I’ve never been on it for long. I might accidentally stumble across it from time to time, but I’ve never felt like I was on it. The search continues.
Just because you can’t see the path, doesn’t mean you aren’t on it. In my experience the path is often obscured and it feels like you wandered into the woods and got stuck in a thornbush. I’m willing to bet if you sat down and looked at the events of your life leading up to this very moment, you would see the path quite clearly. Maybe you’ve had to clear away some brush along the way or had to, I don’t know, go head to head with a mountain lion, but that doesn’t mean it’s not the path. I’m always slightly amazed at the things that fall into your life at just the right moment or the things that I look back on that were complete misery at the moment when they happened, but they were pivotal in the best way when I look back. If you are questioning if you are on the path stop and think. Have you ever had someone say something that seems random but seems to be exactly what you needed to hear? Have you ever made a decision that you thought " what kind of an idiot thought that was a good idea" and it turned out to either be the right decision or lead you to a better place? Ever date a girl that you thought was perfect for you, break up, then meet the woman that you end up marrying and having wonderful children with? It’s all the path. If it was easy to see and laid out before you there would be no lessons to learn and no opportunity to be grateful for what you have.
I like to think of it this way, if you are running a trail race and you think you’ve gotten off the trail, but then you come to an aid station or a random person handing out water on the side of the trail, you are on the right trail. The little “gifts” that you receive in life are your indication that you are on the right path.
Take that for what it’s worth. It’s just the lense through which I see life.
