Week 7: June 6 - June 11

This week was much lower in mileage because of travel, but that was to be expected.

Monday:
AM - 5 miles easy on the Track
PM - 1 mile warm up with 20x200m with a full recovery (200m) and a mile cooldown for a total of 7 miles

Tuesday:
AM - 5 miles easy

Wednesday:
I went running with Jake for my last run with him for a while. We went up K2 3 times. My mom even got to see some of K2. Anyhow, we took off the first time up K2 as Jake wanted to hit a PR up the monster and achieved it hitting 11:06. I don't know where I was at because I don't wear a watch anymore. I took my GPS with us today to measure everything to find out K2 is .85 miles and rises approximately 850-900 feet. Then there was a .75 mile section of easy until we hit the downhill portion of our run out and around down another way which was a 1.7 mile section. The whole loop was almost exactly 3 1/3 miles. We did it three times and with the distance from the car to K2 and back comes to about 10.5 miles for the day.

Thursday: No run, traveling

Friday: No run, traveling and meetings

Saturday:
I went out to Fort Langley to the Fort to Fort trail and ran out and back on it twice for a total of 13.5 miles.

So the runs were a bit irregular this week, but I managed to put in a total of 41 miles this week, which is alright since I planned it to be a bit of a down week.

While running on Saturday, I saw several other people running and thought about whenever I come across another runner while running. Almost without exception there is a kind nod, wave, or hello as we pass each other. I think it is because of the shared experience. We have a mutual understanding and respect for what one another is doing and going through. We understand the pains and joys of running and respect each other for it because of that understanding. I think in most cases I feel the same way towards other followers of Christ for the same reasons. But then I look at the rest of the world, and even sometimes within the Church and I don't see that happening. Even though most of the human experience is shared. We all have pain, sorrow, joy, and dreams. But people often can't see past themselves to the shared experiences that we all have and respect one another because of them. I just pray that I can keep this perspective in mind and respect other men and women because of these things.

Running Toward God,
Jason