Running further equals more days of rest!

3m 3m r r 5m r r 5m r r 6m r r r r 6m r r r 5m r r r 6m r r r r 5m(mile 5 under 15mm)

This is my detective work.  3m=3miles  r=rest

3. & 4.          7.           10.        13.            18.           23.           27.            4. Dates in February/March

I am trying to understand why I feel like I am doing so much more resting and recovering.

Do you understand my shorthand? The first two days of running were 3 miles which I am able to run daily. After running 5 miles my body seems to needs two days rest. After running 6 miles I need 3-4 days rest.

On Friday February 27, I start to run well, then my run turns into a run/walk for a long while. The run returns just before I pick up the dogs. My 6th mile was going to be my fastest when a policeman stops me. I guess he saw me crossing the road in the dark. 

He says, “You should wear a vest with reflective tape because there are many crazy drivers today.”

The Month of March our church is showing the latest episodes of, “The Chosen.” After church we have a lunch to talk about what we watched. This adds hours of extra time sitting up which is hard on my scoliosis spine.

I enjoy talking about, “The Chosen!” It brings healing to my soul and opens my eyes to think differently.

Yesterday, we returned to Daylight Savings Time! Of course, Saturday night I couldn’t fall asleep giving me only 2 hours sleep before church! We had to be early to church for 9:15 choir practice, 10:00 church service, 11:30 “The Chosen,” then 12:30 time to talk about it and home at 2:00! Finally at home I sleep, wake, eat, then sleep, wake, eat, and repeat.

Today, Monday after DST, I wake wanting to run but my body doesn’t have it. I do take many naps.

I am wanting to get out and run well again! After running last Wednesday the 14:45mm I gain 2 pounds of muscle and everyone is noticing how I am able to stand up straight and tall again!

This fills me with HOPE!

Being in my 60’s I know God will help me gain my strength back like He helped me 15 years ago, but I am 15 years older. IT is a fight to keep HOPE ALIVE!

It has been 18 months since I walked out the door and received a KNOWING, God healed the UTI! Most of the 18 months has been doing the hard work and pushing myself with only a glimpse of success once and a while.

I NEED TO BE PATIENT, I am doing the work, I will get stronger, my house and yard will get clean and in order!

Remember God will give each of us strength to do what needs to be done when we ask.

GOD IS SO VERY GOOD!

Fighting Battles that have already been won.

The year 2024 is filled with UTI’s after every run.

The reason probably has to do with pushing hard to regain the ability to run.

Fear of getting a blood infection stopped me from running each time. I had a blood infection 35 years ago and didn’t want a repeat. What I forgot is the danger is from a fever and running, so I quit fearing and got back to running.

My body has battled with UTI’s my whole life but drinking cranberry juice has always kept it under control. This year cranberry juice hasn’t been enough.

During every run the burning feeling shows up in the middle or end of the run. I confess healing in The Blood of Jesus, drink more juice, drink a gallon of water daily, and eventually go to the walk in clinic to get antibiotics. I hate knowing what my problem is and they think I couldn’t possibly  know.

Listening to people while standing in line for my prescription, I hear about cranberry pills and apple cider pills to help the fight.

One day after a year of fighting this monthly, I walk out the door to run and,

I know God healed me.

The Battle is won!

It is so wonderful to run and be healed.

A year after being healed, the burn returns. The fight continues to keep the Healing these last months. Thankfully, I haven’t needed go to the doctor again. I am winning the fight!

February 2026, I ran 3 miles for the first days of the month then my runs grew to 5-6 mile runs. This increase of miles has grown the days of recovery, taking me by surprise.

Wednesday March 4, 2026, the battle of getting stronger is being won. I run 5 miles.

Mile one, 18 minutes; mile two, 19 minutes with dogs.

Miles 3,4, and 5 are me alone and the time shortens with every mile.

 I run

Mile five

 in 14:48mm.

This is the fastest run in 8-10 years! I made the choice to fight differently the last week of 2024, by starting to do at least one minute plank and 12 push-ups every night before bed. Strengthening my core to make running easier!

I know it has so much to do with obeying God by increasing the distance, no matter how well the run goes. The last run in February 2026, I ran 5 miles with only a run/walk, taking 20-22 minutes a mile. (In case you are wondering it takes more than 2 hours to run 5 miles at that speed) Most people walk faster than that!

Even though I had a thought to quit, I pushed through hoping that soon my feet will be able to keep a run going.

The fast run fills me with hope!

God is getting ready to start using me more!

I am getting stronger again!

I’m not the only one with battles, what kind of Battles have you tackled?

Is the battle to for health easy or does it feel as if the world is against you?

Have you succeeded?

If so, have you found the need to return to the fight?  

God is so very Good!

God Bless each of you with strength growing no matter your age. Keep moving in Jesus. Amen!

Frontier comes to set us up with less expensive WiFi!

IT is noon when the technician arrives and my husband wakes me from sound sleep. I am so tired my body cannot stay awake until he leaves then I text the choir director that it would be dangerous to drive because my body cannot stay awake. Sleep takes me until 10:00 P.M., it is strange to eat breakfast at midnight.

Most of my life sleep was normal from 10:00-6:00 with a 3 hour nap in the middle of the day. For the majority of my life I didn’t have the ability to stay awake after 10:00 P.M., because of  weakness.

Turning 50 with menopause my sleep becomes disrupted. I started to wake at 2:00 A.M. and stay awake until 5:00 A.M..

Simultaneously as I miraculously gain nerves which create muscles which gives my body the ability to gain strength, I am able to stay awake until midnight for the first time in my life.  Not going to bed before midnight takes care waking up in the middle of the night. (There is another story about midnight but that is for another time.)

Add in the driving back and forth to the West coast about 15 times in 5 years has trained my body to sleep at odd times.

A few years ago God taught me to stay awake and finish a story I was working on. He was telling me time doesn’t matter. A few times it stretched to 6:00 A.M..

Most of this time I have been waking in the late morning, but this last year as I am gaining my strength back, more sleep is needed. My wake time has stretched to 2:00-3:00 P.M., and maybe later.

It messes with my mind spending all my life waking at 6:00 A.M., and now my life is up side down going to bed at 6:00 A.M..

Every time I have tried to change it back it doesn’t stick.

But today God suggests He is switching my hours again.

I will let you all know about how God does in changing my hours back to more normal times.

Proverbs 16:9 The heart of a man Plans his course, but ADONIA, The LORD, directs his steps. Tree of Life Version.

It is now 2:00 A.M. and I have an hour to pray and read Bible and confess Truth!

God Bless each person reading with the LOVE OF GOD Filling your soul daily. Amen

GOD IS SO VERY GOOD.