60 Kms in 5 days!

60 KMS, well it may not sound like much, but trust me it is. I took a week off and went out to Winnipeg and Saskatoon to visit family. While there I took the opportunity to walk, A lot! I stayed at my brothers home, which is about 7 kms north of Winnipeg on Henderson Hwy, I walked into the city either to the supported housing that my mother lives at (recently moved into, thus the reason for my visit) or to my brothers church to pick up a vehicle. Either way, both destinations were 15 kms from the morning start.

This bridge pictured below, you may recall from media coverage in February, it is the bride that Olympian Cindy Klassens sister’s jeep went over the edge and landed upside down on the frozen red river below, was on my route during my morning walks. It just so happens that in February when the accident happened, I came upon the scene just 15 minutes after it occured as I was visiting in Wpg then as well. All told in the span of 5 days last week I walked 60 kms, It was, yet again, a learning experince, mainly to see what it felt like to walk for 3+ hours then see what the body thought of doing it again the next day….. needless to say I’ve got more training and conditioning to do.

In other news! Our Elgin county, Christian Horizons teams, hosted a garage sale this past week for the Guatemalan, Ecuadorian and Respite projects, Thanks to ALL who were involved and donated their time and their stuff to the cause…. If you have some pictures, sent them and I will post them here.

4:45 AM on A Saturday Morning

4:45 AM, The alarm goes off and I'm up like a shot.... Got to get there! Another morning meeting at church and like a few weeks ago I decide to walk, only this time the meeting has been moved up an hour so I leave an hour earlier. By 5:05 am I'm out the door.

this is what Woodstock looks like at that time of the morning, just in case you were wondering.... Not much going on!



As I walked I checked my email.... I know I know, a bad habit.... in the early hours of the monring this quote came in from a daily quote website I have subscribed to... I found it very inspiring as I still had about 11 more Kms to go of my 13 that morning.... Perhaps it will inspire you as well to reach inside for that second wind... I know that in that second wind, that extra mile or climbing out on that limb that scares us, we find Gods strength, his spirit of empowerment and encourgmange and his blessing, to accomplish what might have seemed impossible the moment, day, month or year before. Truly that is how I see these project we will provide for....


Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out
they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed
at the energy that comes out of you.

William James
(1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
)


PS... Troy, a reply to your comment on the previous post - I'm giving myself up to 12 days and hope to do it in 11, For those of you who need more info see the very first post in this blog. Thanks for the Encouragement Troy.... God Bless!

Breaking records and a photo shoot

This weekend, more milestone were reached.... I broke a personal record on the cross trainers again. Managed to stay going for 35 min straight both sat and Sunday.

This past week Heather and Jacqui from Christian Horizons Global were by to start to develop some promo material, shot some video and took some pictures, I must admit, it's making me nervous, but I trust them!





* I'm posting this picture of them, just to make sure I wasn't the only one having pictures taken knowing they would be posted, published or reproduced! Thanks H and J for all your hard work toward the goal of funding these projects..... NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE !!!!