Our Adventures: thanksgiving

Friday, December 11, 2015

thanksgiving

papa instructing max on the intricacies of the laptop buttons, what they mean and what they do.

on wednesday the storm blew in while we were up at the outlets at the point of the mountain picking up my race packet. we stopped for lunch and calorie-packed for the race!

i ran the thanksgiving half at thanksgiving point, my second time running it. a couple saturdays prior i ran 12 miles in 2:06, so i knew i could run the half in at least that time, and that was my goal. i decided i wouldn't look at my watch, but just run and enjoy it, and try to keep with the 2:10 pacer. at the starting line i only found the 2:00 pacer, and i thought, i can do that. i'll just stay a little behind that pacer. i felt great and wasn't struggling at all until mile 9, then realized it was a faster pace than i could keep for another 4 miles. i got further and further behind the 2:00 pacer until i couldn't see her at all. but no other pacer behind me caught up or passed, so i thought i'd still finish at least 2:06. i kept getting slower and slower, and i kept telling myself over and over, "hey, this is nothing, it's just running, not hardscaping all day--you can do this!" haha--i love that hardscaping is now the standard of hardness/difficulty. imagine my surprise when i crossed the finish line at 2:02! my fastest half yet! i was at first ecstatic! and then the more i thought about it, the more it drove me crazy--had i looked at my watch and seen how well i was running and that i would have finished so close to the 2:00 flat mark, i would have tried to push myself harder to shave of 2-3 minutes. i gave it my all, and was even sore for a good 3-4 days afterwards, so i know i did all i could in the time i could...you know what i'll be doing next year...training speedwork to shave off that extra few minutes to finish sub-2 hours!!

i love these photos taken at the race--you can see the progression of hardness on my face...haha. the race started at 8, so the first photo is just about 20 minutes in...

almost 60 minutes in...

an hour 45 in...

finish line. man this one hurt!

pooped. at least i had new, hot pink shoes.

thanksgiving feast: 430 pm and all the pies are still amazingly intact! max had a roll feast.

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viktor frankl

love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. no one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. by his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. by making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.

nelson mandela

our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. it is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. we ask ourselves: who am i to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? actually, who are you not to be? you are a child of god. your playing small does not serve the world. there's nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel secure around you. we are born to make manifest the glory of god that is in us. it's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. and as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. as we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.