Starting the beginning of this week, our school is required to exercise at 6am for 20 minutes, Mon-Fri. If we were late, we had consequences. At first, I was like...BLLLAHHH! That's insane! Who even wakes up that early? (besides Ken, haha). Anyway, there's a few choices to choose from, such as soccer, walking, jogging, and aerobics. Being the optimistic, energetic one, I decided to take on jogging, an exercise I haven't kept up with in the last six months. At first, I was like, oh yah, I can definitely keep up with the people in the front. Everything was fine, until they passed the required running distance because they wanted more "run time" and I stubbornly ran with them. It was crazy, cuz my heart was beating like 200 beats/hour (or it felt like it!). The common phrase "If you don't use it, you lose it" came into effect as I eventually fell behind and had to catch my breath on a nearby bench while my jogging buddies dissapeared into the distance.
This applies to us spiritually as much as it does physically. There are so many things you do in life, and it's either good for us or bad. If we don't exercise what we've learned, we'll soon realize we suck at doing things we once thought were easy or ok.
On a brighter note, I've decided that I really enjoy waking up early in the morning and running along the river of East Perth. The river (Swan river) is so beautiful and the neighbourhood is just gorgeous. It reminds me of Disneyland or some movie cast set. Beautiful isn't it?
This applies to us spiritually as much as it does physically. There are so many things you do in life, and it's either good for us or bad. If we don't exercise what we've learned, we'll soon realize we suck at doing things we once thought were easy or ok.
On a brighter note, I've decided that I really enjoy waking up early in the morning and running along the river of East Perth. The river (Swan river) is so beautiful and the neighbourhood is just gorgeous. It reminds me of Disneyland or some movie cast set. Beautiful isn't it?
I'm learning so much over the last two weeks, there are so many stories to tell. Life here is so jammed packed with good stuff, I even have longer lecture times than when I was in University taking a full course load! CRAZY! Anyway, time is scarce, gotta go!
More Pics of Swan River(these ones I took myself!)
5 comments:
This looks awesome, Sarah! =) I'm glad you're jogging again! =) I havent jogged for 2 weeks, but that's cuz I got sick and jogging would make me cough up slime (ewww!!!) but yeah, it's gonna be hard to start back up again! Spiritually, same thing. You're so right on that one.
Anyways, sarah, it's really really good to hear from you. You know I miss you lots. Hang in there! I cant wait to hear your stories!
Hi Sarah,
couldn't catch you on messenger...just wanna let you know you're being missed!
at the same time really glad to hear you're having so much fun and experience with God :) those are really nice pics btw :)
You're right about our Spiritual exercise. We need to constantly eat AND exercise :p Thanks for the reminder!
Continue to share with us your experiences!
Wow ... 200 beats/hour = 3.3 beats/min = 0.055 beats/sec. You must have a pretty strong cardiovascular system! haha. Nice pics!
Clarissa-Jogging is so awesome! I luv releasing those endorphins..haha..bring it on! Aww..I hope you're feeling better. It must be hard to teach music w/o a voice :( Miss ya lots!
Ag-You should start a blog dude! I'd love to hear about your seminary life.
Jack-Yup, what can I say...my cardio is just that great! One pump supplies oxygen to my body for at least 20 secs! JK! Good call, physiology nerd! :p
Sarah! What about your bball running skills and such? LOL, no worries, I'm probably more out of shape than you even though I do deliveries for my dad haha.. Those pictures are super sweet.. They look like something out of a magazine (the pictures you took I mean :) )
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