Running Update + Life Recently

It’s been WAY too long since I ran without pain. The past four weeks, I’ve been running without any pain and just this week, I started feeling a lot stronger, physically and mentally during my runs. Last Saturday, I ran 60 minutes easy and it felt fairly easy too. I popped in my headphones, put on some worship music, and relaxed for 60 minutes on a somewhat new-to me route.

It is so funny how much I can take healthy running for granted. Now, since I’ve been injured really since May, I’m cherishing each and every mile and on the hard runs, trying to remember how badly I would have loved to be running and feeling that same pain.

So, right now, I am running 5 days a week (! my coach just added a fifth day into my training plan) and I am right around low 20ish miles a week. I am excited to be out of the teens and into the 20s. The cool thing about basically starting from scratch is that it really can only go up from here 😉

Overall, I am feeling so grateful and so humbled. It is humbling to feel like I am starting over from scratch, but it really just fuels the hunger in me to keep going, to keep chasing what lies undiscovered within me, and excites me for the future. I know God is sovereign and He is good, no matter what happens and although this summer was a disappointment, on the running front, God taught me things through the uncertainty and the discouragement. He is faithful and I am eager to, once again, steward the gifts and passions He has given me to diligently glorify Him and help others in the process.

And so I am running, maybe short miles for now and almost all easy running, but I am eager to be faithful in the small and wait for the bigger, harder stuff soon!