Here's what happened

This past March me and friend named Paul Mitchell had a great idea of hosting a 5k race.  He so brightly suggested that we have it on July 4th when the church celebrates Open House.  Well, if you don't know anything about hosting a 5k run it takes a lot.  Average time to set one up is a year and we had four months!  When push came to shove we did it and it turned out fairly well with only a few fixes for next year.

My friend Thomas decides to begin running and he got in shape and decides to run in the race (this wasn't his original motive but more of a result of turning things around).  He did fine for where he is at and is really excited about this.  So, he asks me if I will run a race with him in September if he can find one.  I said yes and we began looking and found a race in Hannibal on September 24th called the Mississippi River Run and we are going to run in it.  My friend Paul is a very accomplished runner who has gotten older and a little slower and likes to run shorter distances.  Well, I challenged him to get in shape and run with us and he is going to do it.

I have two real motives for this.  The first is my friend asked me and the second is to get in shape for my wife.  I'm not overweight but my family is short and stocky which tends to produce larger bodies come later years.  So, I don't want to get old and be like that and have my kids look at me and wonder what happened.  Also, God once told me that He will not have a fat glutton for a minister.  I'm kind of dense so God has to talk to me like that at times.  Anyways, here we go.

Tonight was my first run of about 3/4 a mile and my lungs felt it pretty bad and my legs were done at the end of it.  I think I could have pushed it a little farther but we are in this for the long haul so I will live to run again.

Thomas, thank you.