Blog for Tuesday 29 Nov 2005

Up early again - 3am ish this morning, which God is commanding me to do at
this time of not working so I can get quality studying done in the early
hours while all is peaceful and still! It truly is good to be alive and
cycle at those hours when nearly everyone else is fast asleep and knows
nothing of these hours except maybe when flying abroad or finishing a late
night party. Anyway prayed with Zoe this morning early as she was up feeding
the baby anyway, then went off on my weekly hilly half marathon run. Was
good this morning and although the 1st quarter was slow, once I caught my
second wind I was away and soon was aggressively attacking the 2nd and 3rd
quarters. Running slowed towards the end but was still aggressive and I
ended up taking 5 minutes off the course best of 1.59.33 and made it 1.54.23
which was very healthy indeed given the nature of the course. I reckon 1.45
will be my goal and if I reach that I will know it will be time to do some
longer distance training runs, maybe 3/4 marathon length. God is good!