"Beauty confronts us with the requirement that we place ourselves among...the redeemers, the leaders in the protection of life. Once you have seen the bush on fire, you are not going to get out of the assignment unless you close your eyes to the beauty.... [You] either have to close your eyes or go back to Egypt and set the people free." - Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker, "Rising to the Challenge of Our Times"

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Around the corner

Well, Sunday is the big marathon day. My training wasn't exactly everything I'd hoped to accomplish, but it never really is. I've definitely been taking it easy the last couple weeks, partly due to getting a cold immediately after the 20-mile run I did two weeks ago and partly due to sitting around eating delicious cake and pie and fantastic curry sausage stuffing all the blessed Thanksgiving weekend.

I see that my big 1.8 mile run this morning wasn't enough to make my little Nike cartoon person start jumping hurdles again...but Sunday will put the life back into her. (Almost) all downhill. Just have to keep a cool head, think about people who have suffered or are suffering way more than I will be and have no choice in the matter, keep on truckin', and not be too attached to the outcome. How glorious to be able to stand and walk, let alone run. How lovely to wake up at 4:30 a.m. to catch a 5:15 bus to the 7:00 a.m. start. (Choice in the matter, choice in the matter. Yes. I signed up for this.)

4 comments:

hmr said...

Wahoo! Kick some CIM butt!

Your Nike cartoon is making me feel guilty about slacking on the running.

Alice said...

I've been slacking too. I'm not sure I could even run more than a few miles now. It's sad how fast you lose it...

I'm going running today though!

Good luck on sunday!

Emily said...

Thanks!

Depends on what you mean by "a few miles," but if you have a high enough pain threshold you don't really need to train that much. :)

adamf said...

Hmm... training one's pain threshold vs. just training. I need to remember this...

Good luck!!