place of nathan.

I’ve been running the past month or so. Running keeps getting easier for me as i continue to do it.
last night marked four days in a row of running–the first time i’ve done that in likely eight years. seriously.

My knees no longer are aching. my legs are so sore right now, it feels really great. I have been going out slowly and coming back moderate to hard. it has been a very good week of running for me. I am getting much closer to hitting the 20 miles/week mark.

As I am training, there are two different things i have to work on. They are really completely separate, but completely related, too. I need to get my lungs in shape, and also need to get my legs used to running faster. I could easily–very, very easily, get in 20 miles each week, just by running very, very slow. But running slowly actually does more harm than good, due to the pressure of pounding on the knees. So i need to train my legs to run faster. I can run very fast (let me know if you want to race 100 meters sometime!)–but only for a short amount of time, because my lungs get tired.

I can’t run faster without my lungs supporting the sustained speed. These two things are related, but i have to train very differently for each type of improvement. It’s worthless to have lungs in shape if i’m just running slowly (jarring my knees and doing tons of long-term damage to the knees!). One without the other gets me nowhere.

That got me thinking about my walk with God. What if all I do is go to church and that’s it? Is that enough? What if all i do is read the Bible, is that enough? What if all i do is pray, is that enough? Is it enough to just send in a tithe every month?

Or, is getting off-balance in my spiritual life actually doing more harm than good? Is it even possible to get off-balance in my spiritual walk?

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