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What am I running from?
Surprising even myself, I’ve been jogging since May. At the end of that month, I flew to Montenegro with a team from Blacksburg to explore ways to work with meanderbug.com to help bless southern Europe through purposeful, missional travel and relational connections. When I found out our team would be engaged in some demanding physical activity, I began jogging about three weeks out.
While we were there, we mountain-biked 18 miles one day, did some SUP (stand-up paddleboarding) and hiked. It was beautiful, and I’m looking forward to mobilizing more folks to go experience that region of the world through meanderbug.com. Here’s a video (the arms you see are mine!) of our experience mountain-biking Dormitory (read more here):
When I returned from the trip, I felt revived and refreshed from both the experience and the activity. Two days back in Virginia, I went jogging again. Not because I was preparing to go anywhere, but.. just because. Now almost six months after I began, I’m still jogging about every other day. It’s… weird for me.
Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy activity. I’ve just always invested my exertion in team sports. I love playing the occasional game of pick-up basketball. Ultimate frisbee is also a favorite. Flag football (think my days of tackle are over). Even raquetball. I loved intramurals in college, and I’ll do just about anything.
I’ve also jogged occasionally over the years just to knock the fat off. Usually a month or so here and there to jumpstart the loss of inches. I’ve never jogged this consistently.
Someone asked me if I was enjoying it recently. My answer was, “Not particularly.” I enjoy the results and the way it makes me feel, but my feet pounding the sidewalk? Not so much. Someone else asked if I’d had a “runner’s high.” Since I avoid cannabis due to my profession, my answer was also negative. But I truly don’t think I have… I don’t think I run distances far enough to experience that (usually 2-4 miles).
Here’s a collection of pics of things I’ve seen on some of my runs since May:
Inevitably, I’m listening to podcasts or music when I run. Recently I had shifted from my stale selection (Barry Manilow, Journey, country and Christian) to some of Adelyn’s music on our shared iTunes account. I stumbled across Forgot to Laugh by Bridgit Mendler and I didn’t. I was laughing at it as a I jogged. It has some of the best lines ever: “If you drive away, hope you get a flat tire, get stranded..” and “I’ve got my own life and you’re just a punchline.” Ah, the catchy quality of pop songs by jilted adolescents.
At any rate, I plan to continue as long as I can stand the cold weather here in Blacksburg. At this point, it’s a refreshing habit, especially with the cool weather and the fall foliage.
More posts from the Montenegro experience:
Destination Durmitor
Skadar Lake
Montenegro necessity
Reflections on Montenegro
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October 23, 2014
October 21, 2014
Nuff said: Fix annoying iOS 8 tidbits, charts!, the world’s largest religion, why working from a coffee shop may not be a good idea
Fix 10 annoying iOS 8 features
If you’ve updated your Apple device to iOS 8, chances are there are a few features you’re not exactly thrilled with (while there are host of others that you’re ecstatic about). Here’s a list of 10 things you can do to adjust a few settings to make those distractions about iOS 8 go away.
22 maps and charts you should see…
These are truly fascinating! Take a gander at all of them. Here’s two that grabbed me:
Snapchat is more popular than Twitter among Millenials
The wealthiest American in every state
Image from Pew Research
The world’s largest religion is growing…
Contrary to what you may hear on the MSM, Christianity is still the world’s largest religion, and according to the latest report from Pew Research, it continues to grow and have global influence.
This data is likely to provide little comfort to the handful of Christian communities,particularly in countries such as Iraq, that are facing real persecution. But, overall, the story of Christianity in today’s world is still one of vast majorities, enormous populations, and historically unique reach.
Your favorite coffee shop may be destroying your creativity
I was pretty bummed when I read this article about how working from coffee shops could be detrimental to productivity.
Coffee shops are great for a lot of things.
Boosting actual get-stuff-done productivity, for most people, is not one of them.
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