GGGGNATS!

This morning was not one of my finer moments. I woke up with a bad attitude. My head was telling me that there was no use in even attempting a long run, and when Mike woke up just as I was about to leave the house, he told me something that I should have been telling myself, "Just do your best." So I thought I'll be lucky to get ten out of myself but I'll try to push for fifteen.
As I started running I thought back to the run I did in Sugarland and decided that I would pretend that I was running next to the wounded soldier on crutches that did the 5k. The whole run I kept telling myself that I would just do a little more and see how it felt. The truth is, it was hard, I was dehydrated, and I didn't eat enough of the right carbs the night before, but I never thought this sux or I hate running, or why do I do this to myself...I just kept thinking I need water. I ended up doing somewhere between 19 and a half and twenty. It might be good to measure it, but I don't really care, it was time to be done when I stopped, I was dehydrated and I knew it. There was a swarm of gnats that flew at me, some of them sticking, one getting in my mouth and one in my eye, and I thought if this is the worst thing that happens to me today Lord, then you have more than blessed me. Just after that, as the sun was coming up Brandon Heath's Give me your eyes started playing on my ipod...it was inspiring. Hope y'all are doing well- Love ya, LJ