Hi everyone! Since on a few days of the week we won't be working out together, and we also have a few comrades in places like Colorado, I thought it would be a good idea if we were able to share how our runs went on those days. So, please comment on this post, it is awesome to hear how everyone else is doing!
Also, If you have any quotes from saints or scripture that have to do with running, or are good inspiration for runners, please post them here! =)
~ Captain Heather
On Wednesday, I did a 12 mile hike with a 2700 foot elevation gain. I was planning on doing a run at the top, but low oxygen and such caused us to just choose the 12 mile option over the 8 mile + run.
ReplyDeleteum.... I lifted some boxes today?
ReplyDeleteI ran 4 miles with my dad this morning (Friday). I generally sleep in if I can it was fun to see how beautiful the world is in the early morning.
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I know that I am not part of the team anymore :\... But I can't resist sharing this quote: "Pain isnever permanent" ~St. Teresa of Avila :D. Good luck this year everyone!
ReplyDeleteTo Stephen and Kate,awesome job with running/hiking! It's so awesome to see the beauty of God in nature! (Plus, if you run early enough, it isn't half as hot out!=) To our friend the box lifter, box lifting does not exactly count as core.... And Zoe, know that you are always welcome to comment on the blog; you're still on the team in our hearts!
ReplyDeleteAnd, I love the quote!
This morning I ran 5 miles, and it was pretty hot out, but there was a great wind and the sky was clear and blue with just a few clouds! I don't know if playing on our trampoline gives me extra workout points though!
I do believe that the "WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE AFTER-WORKOUT FOOD" poll is incorrect. It should not have chocolate milk as an option since it is not a food, but a drink. Plus, it makes it impossible to vote for both pretzels and chocolate milk. And who eats broccoli after running? Shouldn't we put up bagels or something, I believe that to be more realalistic. Also, i would never eat broccoli, but maybe a broccolus.
ReplyDeleteOn a related note, the running has been going swell. I mean, there are the a few problems here and there: the occasional criminal, a band of theives, or even a pack of aggresive orcs. The latter is a bit of a shame, having those wretches marauding about, infefecting the country side with their filth. Though I am proud to report that the stray groups have become extremely rare, their race is nearly extinct.
On a slightly lighter note, Minas Tirith is getting refurbished. And I do say that it is looking lovely.
Ahhh, the things reguarding running a kingdom.
-Envinyatar
Ahhh, Michael... umm...err... your Highness, King Elessar Telcontar, I must say that you cannot blame me very harshly for this slight misunderstanding. However if you look at scientific reports, they claim that milk is a food, not a drink. And as for broccoli, who do you think you are to discriminate against hobbits? I thought that you had great respect for them, but alas, it is not so. I thought I knew you better.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad Middle Earth is looking better, but the Grey Havens might have been more appealing... nicer places to run, untroubled by orcs, with my kin. I suppose my father could have been right... Oh, wait, I'm supposed to want to be here, right? Minas Tirith is lovely. I can agree on one thing at least.
~Arwen Evenstar
Is milk really a food? I guess if you take out the water, it would be a solid (as in, it has no other liquid component)but still... the idea of milk does not seem to exclude the water part. But there is absolutely not the slightest doubt in the whole world that I could know more than the great Arwen... However, the really unfortunate thing is that I eat/drink none of those things after a run. Though, as soon as I voted chocolate milk that made it such that I would be lying unless I did, in fact, drink it after the average run. (eat it?) As for Middle Earth, I don't think anyone cares about that backwater country, no matter how much it has been renovated. Unless, of course, one is searching for freedom as I once did. And the very existence of orcs... or Sauron for that matter: what on Middle Earth are you humans and elves doing?!?!?! In my day, we could face down belrogs, armies greater by many times to what you see, and even more terrible things. AND WE GAVE THEM A GOOD FIGHT!!!! Why can't you just go in there and knock those orcs up? Its not like your facing Melkor himself, after all...
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I voted for chocolate milk too, but I almost never drink (eat) it after a run. This is mainly because we hardly ever have it in the house. I generally drink lemonade and water. Say hello to the hobbits for me will you? Sam and Frodo are doing quite well.
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Feanor, Galadriel, how are my kin doing in the Grey Havens? You must tell my father Elrond I am well. And I will most certainly send word to Sam to come and meet me soon in Minas Tirith. But you both must greet Frodo for us. However, I must ask you, Feanor, why you insult us dwellers of Middle-Earth so harshly. You were the rebellious child of our race. And Aragorn has done quite a good job vanquishing the rest of the orcs of late, so you ought not complain. It was my choice to stay here, you know.
ReplyDeleteAs for chocolate milk, I would not think of sipping that after my workout. I greatly prefer pretzels and find chocolate milk rather disgusting. I apologize in advance, because I feel that this will offend you all. But my mind (and tongue) will not be changed.
~Arwen Undomiel
Why do I choose to insult Middle Earth? Well I had such great hopes for Middle Earth. I hoped to drive out evil, and such. And guess what? I failed. But YOU didn't do any better! Not one of you (and Galadriel, you can testify to this) did any acts of valor that can even be measured on the same scale as those of my time! Its like comparing a drop of water to the depths of sea! And art? My art was such that it defined the history of 3 ages! And the art of your time? About 1 age. Plus, even that one age was heavily, heavily influenced by my art. Seriously!
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Your kin are quite well Elrond misses you very much, but he understand why you chose to stay. I am glad you are going to see Sam soon how are he, Rosie and their children. Frodo is doing well as is Bilbo. As for you Feanor while your work shaped the 3rd age I will say it might have been better had none of your work ever been made. But then Middle Earth wouldn't have been as beautiful. I suppose you must take the good with the bad but it was a high price to pay. Give Merry and Pippin my salutations.
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Ahhh Feanor! Why do you have to be so troublesome? You yourself left to come to Middle Earth, so why do you insult us living here now? And, you ought not plague us so. Surely, I would not have gained my name Undomiel if it had not been for your handiwork, but what of that? Many wars would not have been fought were it not for you and your pride.
DeleteGaladriel, I am glad to hear that my father is doing well, and you are as well. Sam and Rosie still make a lovely couple, and their children are delightful! Merry and Pippin also greet you, Galadriel, and hope that you are well.
~Arwen Undomiel
My point is simply that Middle Earth had such hope when I arrived there. We had a foe much greater than yours to face, and yet there was still so much potential. And think about history:
DeleteIt very might well be the ancestors who start a society, but who fulfills it? DESCENDANTS!!!
And you seem to have most certainly done about zilch with all this great potential, even though you have an enemy much less ferocious than mine.
Feanor (about the pride thing, I was considering using the name Manwe, but immediately decided that the joke would not run anywhere near as well, for various reasons)
For Gondor!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DeleteCrack open the Ale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These men are Thirsty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Boromir
Hmmm.... Feanor, I'm sure that we are not in support of drunkeness in middle earth, but I'm afraid that there will be problems soon for Aragorn to deal with. Seriously,I thought Boromir was dead! Galadriel, Aragorn, can you help me get rid of this drunken impostor?
ReplyDelete~Arwen Undomiel
Just because under my father, the steward of Gondor, we led Middle Earth in DUI's doesn't mean that with Lord Aragorn it will be the same. As a matter of fact he's restricting the number of ales per night to 9!!!!!!! Plus my spirit still lives on as long Morgoth survives.
ReplyDelete-Boromir
FACT: Drunkenness, although made completely legal under Denethor, was encouraged by you. Just because Aragorn has restricted it doesn't mean you still don't encourage it.
ReplyDeleteFACT: You probably still do encourage it secretly. You spirits are always causing trouble.
FACT: You do not, in fact, exist. I was around when men came into Middle Earth, and I know the following
FACT: Illuvatar gave men a great gift: death. They do not have to endure watching the world change, as we elves do, and watching all the worked on pass away.
FACT: Although the souls of men might go SOMEWHERE, they do not remain on Middle Earth, they do not go to the halls of Mandos, and they do not go to Valinor.
FACT: Even though I might be viewed as slightly inconsistent as I showed that, as a spirit, you where a drunkard, and then showed that you didn't exist, I was saying, "If you did exist, then you would be a drunkard."
-Feanor.
Illuvatar gave men a great gift: death. They do not have to endure watching the world change, as we elves do, and watching all the worked on pass away.
Deleteplease explain.
death a great gift?????
Boromir, I knew you were falling and it cheered my soul to hear that you were died. Not because I disliked you but because it is better to be dead then to be consumed by the ring. However I never knew you to like drink but live and learn. But I agree with Feanor your spirit is no longer here and you are not bad so why did you say that as long as Morgoth lives you will haunt the earth you were a free man in life why are you evil in death?? Arwen could you clarify this if you can.
DeleteGaladriel
Who is Boromir???????????
ReplyDeleteFirst of all what does Boromir have to do with Morgoth.
Secondly that is not a good way to treat your own country, by talking about its flaws. I think who ever Boromir's alter identity is doesn't know who Morgoth is and is just remembering a name. Morgoth is evil!!!!!
Death a great gift????? Ask Galadrial, who has lived a good 3 ages. However, my own response would be that death on Middle Earth isn't the same as death on real Earth. There, death is, in fact, horrible. Fortunately, men don't die here in Middle Earth. Death is defined as your soul leaving your body in Middle Earth. For all we elves know, men go to Illuvatar when they die. Elves, unfortunately for us, just go to the halls of Mandos or Valinor. But life on Middle Earth does not equal life in the halls of Mandos, or in Valinor, or with Illuvatar. Therefore, death on Middle Earth probably is a good thing.
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I agree with Feanor death on earth isn't the same as death in middle earth. Though I will say that death on earth isn't that bad for believers who go to heaven which is by all accounts very nice. But concerning Middle Earth death there for mortals can be a gift we elves have to live through all time and see the coming and going of many things we must live with much and that isn't always easy. Men prepare for perhaps 100 years we prepare forever.
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I will attempt a long drawn out and theological explaination of the view on death being a gift. Thus, I begin:
ReplyDeleteFor normal earth, we know death to be a product of the Fall. Adam and Eve's sin caused this calamity for us. However, what was for us evil, God turned to gain for us by his own death. No longer did death have to have the great sting it had formerly had for the faithful, as now they had hope of redeption, and, being free from mortal sin upon their death, they would enjoy eternal happiness in heaven. Therefore, in normal earth, death has the ability to be either good or bad. This depends on the state of the soul.
In Middle earth, elves serve as a allegory for men before the fall. They can shoot bows with extreme accuracy, are beautiful, and do not die. However, unlike humans, they maintan their immortality AFTER the fall. Therefore, death of humans to them can be seen as a great gift, as they must endure the sins of generations upon generations. While a man sins in his lifetime and dies, an elf grapples with his decisions for eternity, stuck on the same earth where he made them. The elves are fallen too, though, and it seems this immortality is both a gift and a curse. Remember that men of middle earth don't necasarily view death as a gift.
So, my take on it in the end is that in both places, death can be both a gift and a curse depending on your state. There is indeed beauty in death, but it is not a man's choice whether to end his life or not, that is Illuvatar's.
~Arwen Undomiel
Just wondering does anyone know who Boromir is?
ReplyDeleteGaladriel
You mean the person behind the posts, right?
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