I really, really like to run.

Marathon training starts Monday. Back to my first love.

“I wore this bracelet, bright and golden
That overnight became a chain
I was a lonely, wretched soul that
Lost in the dark cried out your name
You cut me deep, I know I felt it
But it's the sweetest kind of pain.”

“He felt in his heart a braid of pain and delight and longing that made his bones burn and his heart quake. All his attention turned from himself, and he yearned for the speaker of those words so desperately that he wished he could die and be born again as a single spoken syllable from his mouth, just to know the pleasure of his presence.”

“Perish every fond ambition
All I've sought or hoped or known
Yet how rich is my condition!
God and heaven are still my own.”

What a day. One I won’t forget. Thanks to the old man (@Paul Fisher) for crewing, even if he was late to the first aid station.

3rd place overall. 2nd male.

“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.”

"While many desire to know that Christ loves them, may it ever be my desire to know that I love him, by feeling his love mortifying in me the love of self, animating my whole soul to serve him, and, if called by his providence, to suffer even death for his sake."