The fire...

Well it has been like three months since I have posted... Well work is getting crazy (people leaving, people hating their job, and so on) and I am expected to work 50 hours a week, which it has been that way for over a year now and it is starting to wear on me. I really feel drained but running really seems to help my mood.

I love running! It seems to release so many things. My mind is allowed to wonder about different subjects and put things at ease and at the same time I am concentrating on running and the way my foot lands and analyzing my body for soreness or being tired. It is amazing how God designed our bodies. Some people can't walk and chew gum and I am one of those people on certain days. But when I run I can ponder my situation at work or home, think about what I am going to get my wife for Christmas, what I want to do for my life, and listen to songs on my Mp3 player. I ran 5 miles this morning so time allows for most of that.

Do you ever get motivated but outside comments from other people? I DO. I don't know if it is a competitive thing or if it is you want to break down what people think about you. When people see this slightly over weight guy that is 6'3" say I am going to run a hlaf-marathon or do a triathlon they expect that I am out there to just finish or that someone else that is competeing against me will pound me. That drives me inside. It makes me feel like I have this fire inside that just completes my attitude that I am going to train my hardest and I am going to come up on top no matter what happens. My fire came to me at a Christmas party we had with some friends. My workout partner and his wife are really close to this other couple that me and my wife don't really enjoy that much. They are cool but just grate on us. I don't know why but they doe. Well the wife of that couple told her husband in front of me that next time I should go on a ride with Phillip (workout partner) and the husband and then they can wait on me and not the husband. Man did that light me up! I am ready for this year. I don't want to focus my anger towards her but it is towards the comment. I want the husband to compete against us in a triathlon or a run or just blow away my partner and just prove something this year. I feel so pumped and ready to go. That is my fire this year as well as my personal bests that I want to blow out of the water.

I am ready and my fire is driving me!!!