Week 2 or 3 ...spirituality is living more than lessons.

Week 2 or is it week 3?

Begun running some bigger distances than I have for a couple of years. Wondering/testing if this is the year I try for another marathon.
So I pulled out a new type of marathon training plan - the Hansen plan.
In my 14 weeks training plan I will cover a total distance of 622 miles.

The last time I did a marathon I ran 3 days a week and covered a total of 380 miles.
The short of the Hansen - kill you before the race date so you'll never actually run a marathon!

Or .....run 622 miles so that when you run a 26.2 mile marathon it will feel a mere walk in the park.

So I've begun.
I'll give it a few weeks trial and see how my body holds out. Then decide.

But interesting methodology.
Run double what I've run in training before - and yet - while my other training plans had four runs that were either 18 miles or 20 miles in total the Hansen plan only sees me reach 16 miles (still 10.2 short of marathon distance)!

The philosophy includes you may not do a big 20 miler, but when you do your 16 miler, the runs you've put in the days before and the days after will make the 16 miler feel like a 26 miler without the actual pounding of the concrete and the wear and tear on your body.

So now, as a church pastor, I have to now try and link this methodology and my attempt to train with it, to something to do with Jesus!!!

Here's the best I can come up with:

......nope, got nothing.

But then maybe that's a good thing.
Maybe this constant need to try to spiritualize everything, misses it.
Maybe its the doing itself that is spiritual not a lesson you can learn from it.
Maybe its not about finding a spiritual parallel but living spiritual in whatever parallel you are in.

Maybe my marathon training can be spiritual.

What I won't now do is list a whole number of ways it can be. That misses it as well.
What I will do is take on the challenge of this training wanting to know God in the midst of it.

Spirituality is living more than lessons.