Our family left @ 7am this morning to run a 5K. There were just three of us running this time. We had enough time to stop and pick up something to drink (Cappucino, Gatorade) from QuikTrip. It was @ LaFortune Park @ 61st and Yale in Tulsa. The sky was packed full of clouds.

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Gotta love this video . . . I agree, it’s the greatest moment in a political speech I’ve ever seen too.
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Here are some more highlights of Sarah Palin’s speech taken from John Hawkin’s website Rightwing News.com

Taken from the devotional Joy And Strength @ Back To The Bible.org.
Invest your life in helping others.
LET our temper be under the rule of the love of Jesus:
He can not alone curb it,–He can make us gentle and patient.
Let the vow,
that not an unkind word of others shall ever be heard from our lips,
be laid trustingly at His feet.
Let the gentleness that refuses to take offence,
that is always ready to excuse,
to think and hope the best,
mark our intercourse with all.
Let our life be one of self-sacrifice,
always studying the welfare of others,
finding our highest joy in blessing others.
And let us, in studying the Divine art of doing good,
yield ourselves as obedient learners to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
By His grace, the most common-place life can be transfigured with the brightness of a heavenly beauty,
as the infinite love of the Divine nature shines out through our frail humanity.
–ANDREW MURRAY

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Taken from Active.com/running
By Runner’s World editors
Runner’s World
Mark Covert doesn’t have to think about his run today. It’s a given; he’s going to do it. After running for 12,480 days in a row (through September 30, 2002), Covert isn’t about to miss today. Or tomorrow. Or the day after.
You, however, probably need a plan for today’s workout. Without a plan, it’s just too easy to skip a run. You’ve got pressures in the office, errands to do, classes to take, things to deal with at home.
And more. Always more. Which makes it tough to put together a consistent training program.
Yet consistency is the most essential piece of every training program. It’s the one thing—perhaps the only one—that every coach, physiologist, and medical expert agrees on.
Without consistency, you aren’t going anywhere. You’re not going to get faster. You’re not going to run farther. You’re not going to lose weight, lower your blood pressure, finish that marathon, or achieve your other running goals.
With a consistent training program, on the other hand, the sky’s the limit. You’ll feel better and run better every day. So let’s get with it. Here are 27 ways to add more consistency to your running.
1. Run with others. To make sure you do a workout, there’s nothing like the social pressure of knowing someone else (or a group) is waiting for you. Bonus: It’s often more fun than running alone, especially if you’re doing a long run, or a speed workout on the track.

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Taken from the site Active.com/running.
By Jeff Galloway
There is one major factor that sets world-class athletes apart from everyday runners: They chose their parents well.
In sports such as basketball, baseball, soccer, and gymnastics, the genetic gifts are evident early. But in endurance events, it is possible for someone who shows little or no talent during the first few years to improve significantly through hard, sustained work and eventually reach world-class status. While this is unlikely, this is my story.
During my first four years of running in high school I was not fast enough to compete in state championship competition. Only during my senior year did I qualify. I did not earn a college track scholarship.
When I graduated in 1967, with a draft number so low that I was certain to be drafted, I tried to join the track teams of the Army, Air Force and Marines—but did not have times that were fast enough. I enrolled in the Navy and served three years off the coast of Vietnam, as well as other duties.
After my Navy service, I applied myself to running and improved steadily, qualifying for the 1972 Olympic team. In every Olympics, there are distance runners who are too stubborn to give up, like me, and make themselves into world-class competitors.
Have you wondered what it would be like to be a world-class runner? Well, here are some of the factors:

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In Australia a Guiness World Record was broken by women in stilletos!
. . . love this story ’cause I love bein’ a woman and dressing up like one. I could handle a race in stilletos. And if some of us American women got together, we could beat the pants (I mean, skirts!) off of those Australians!!

AUSTRALIA-STILETTO SPRINT RACE
Some 265 contestants get in position at the starting line for the inaugural Stiletto Sprint race by the shores of Sydney Harbour on September 2, 2008. The group set a new world record for the most women to run an 80 metre dash wearing 75mm high heels. Here’s a picture of the winner.
Taken from MediaFaxPhoto.

In 1949 English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter:
‘God, who foresaw your tribulation,
has specially armed you to go through it,
not without pain but without stain.’

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We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us;
we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
~C.S. Lewis
Taken from the website Beyond the Loneliest Star.