Wrong Turn.....Amber

May 27, 2006: 10km 60min

I'm not going to write long tonight because it's been a crappy day; but I decided that I wanted to go for a different run for a change today; so I took a couple of wrong turns and BAM I'm in a feild that was disguising itself as a road! And I"m running in MUDD! It was so strange and there were all of these swoooping birds around and I kept on trying to make gun shot sounds with my mouth because I'm slightly afraid of birds (for absolutely no reason) and I felt just rediculous!! And THEN...I found this great body of water! It looked like a lake in the middle of nowhere; and I thought to myself...how is it possible for me to live in Stonewall for 18 years and not know about this! But it turned out to be the lagoon (which I knew quite a bit about) but I didn't think I was that far off my trail!! so then I got out of the mudd and took a moment to try and get the mudd off my shoes and cut the back of my leg open on some metal. Haha! what a crazy run...

But it was eventful! woot!

Don't judge me on my blogging......Amber

May 18,2006: 3 miles: 26min

Well I haven't blogged here for a while although I have been running in massive quantities (maybe not qualities!). Wow the grammer really has been going downhill! haha! but anywho...I had an amazing run last weekend that I still can remember pretty clearly. The place? Dirt road behind my house. The time? the tail end of sunset. The reason? Because I gotta!! HAHa jk. And there was this sunset; actually it looked just like the one in this picture except a little more pinkish. The road I was on ran North/South and so I had this amazing sunset on one side of me, and then dark rain clouds on the other side (East obviously). And as I was running God just really showed me so many things that I already knew, but He revealed it to me in a way that I've never seen it! It was fabulous!! It was like running the road of life with two choices; the storm and the sunset. The sky was completely split in half...and as I was running, it started to rain! And the rain and the wind would push my face toward the west, just like trials and tribulations help us focus on Christ. And one the west side of the road was the harvesting fields and on the East side was the town with all of it's man made lights; with the West having the true light. It was just a really really fun run as all of this unfolded. It was like God was telling me a story. WOOT!

It's been a while...............Amber

May 1,2006: 8km
May 7, 2006: 8km

I don't know what was wrong with me this week! Just didn't feel like doing much of anything!! Didn't blog...didn't really run...as much as everything went wrong I wasn't really busy. It was werid not to be stressed out to the max and to have time to unwind (maybe too much time). So maybe that's why i was having so much trouble running this week. It's usually a stress reliever, and without any stress to relieve, it felt werid to run! Isn't that horrible?!

How did they feel?! I can't really remember (not even tonights). I think I really like running at night...I like that time of day the best. Running under the moon light...in the rain...that was tonight. sigh! I could've ran all night! seriously!

Should've taken the mascara off..........Amber

April 30, 2006: 12km: 1 hour

Not too bad of a time today! Starting to get better endurance, but it's taken a long time! Both my outsides and my insides were hurting today. Meaning that my knees and achilles ached while my stomach was crampy and my lungs felt like cracking! For almost the entire run I was hurting...but sometimes it feels so good to persevere for perseverence sake!

I had waited all weekend for this run! It's been cloudy for the past three days, but no rain. So I waited, and waited, and waited....and then it finally started to spit! So I grabbed all my rain gear and headed out! Ah man, I wasn't disappointed! I started off in the country on the gravel roads where the fields were burning and it smelt like Africa again! For a lot of the run I had to remind myself to run "heel-toe, heel-toe" just because my first instict is to run on my toes (like a sprint). I think I live my life that way as well where I am constantly reminding myself that life about endurance and not just sprinting from one thing to another.

Uneventful run.....Amber

April 27: 6km: 45min

AGAIN! I'm so slow! haha! I find that when I run outside I'm a lot slower...maybe it's because of the environmental factors...But I liked my route today! I went in the Quarries and there was lots of hills, which is a nice change! I used to run in there a lot but I usually don't because it can get mucky if it's rained. There's one hill that's really big and usually a challenge for me. I remember when I was stressed out about something, I would name the hill whatever thing that was stressing me out at the moment, and when I made it up the hill I would feel like I had overcome my problem. False sense of victory?! Maybe...but it was such a stress reliever that I didn't care! So running that hill today brought be back to so many different memories which was neat. Because those problems have been resolved and beaten

long and lazy...or was that slow and steady?? Amber

April 22 (I think); 10km; 1hour

It's been a couple of days since this run and I don't remember much...but as one of my clinical instructors always said, "a little bit is better than nothing and later is better than never!" Wow we got a long well! haha! But yeah it was a beautiful day this past Saturday and the back roads were just a callin my name! It was like 20C and the sun was just setting over the fields! Sigh! beautiful! I decided to go right instead of left tonight; which is werid for me...but a trend that my dear mother has started! It was so much fun because there were all new roads to explore and everything was different! For one thing...there certainly was a whole lot more cows and horses on this side! we talked lots...they were good company!

So much to think about...that I wasn't in a hurray to move. I think that's why it took so long! I just didn't want it to end! Funness all over!

No further.....Amber

Saturday, April 15, 2006: 5km: time unknown.... Picture: Mantario Trail 2004

This was an unexpected run...I had just gotten home from Brandon when a friend called me up and asked if I wanted to go for a run! I had already spent a good chunk of the day walking in the sun/sitting in a car while drinking WAY too much coffee and not enough water. Let me tell you, this was not a pretty run! I had cramps after the first km and I was out of breath and tired! But the company was wonderful and the sunset over the grain fields never disappoint, so it was all good!

Just surprised me how much I need to prepare my body for any kind of run that is longer than 5km. Make sure that you drink a lot of water and eat the proper food at the proper times...And just how I couldn't "make the distance" (hah how cheezy) when I hadn't prepared myself. I think that's direct link to my personal, spiritual life! It's like...if I know that I"m preaching or preparing for a big event, I'll spend lots of time in the Word and speak and listen constantly to God; and then I'm prepared. But why is it that I only do the bare minimum to get me through the day/situation?