The Vancouver Sun Run is an annual 10 Km run held in Vancouver. Although, I have no aspirations of winning the Sun Run, I do have intentions of posting a decent time. I am by no means a runner, but I do know I have heart. With my runners and my iPhone I know this is achievable.

My goals is to finish the 10 Km in under 60 mins. Here I will log how that goes.

No more time for talk, let’s do it…

Friday, 22 January 2010

Went for my first run today with Cesar, Jeriq and Paula. My first day of training consisted of 10 laps around a 400 m track. We failed to time the run but this I can say. I have not in recent memory finished 10 laps around a track without stopping. I guess this was a good step and a moment of clarity that I can do anything that I put my mind and heart to.

Monday, 25 January 2010

I ran 4.0 km in 33 mins, in pouring rain. This puts me on pace to complete 10 km in 85.5 mins. It looks like I have to pick up the pace.

Day 2

Monday, 25 January 2010 Additional

About an hour after my first run, I went around the same route again with my sister and Eric. Unfortunately, I got a call mid-run and the gps tracker on iPhone paused and did not resume after the call. I couldn’t get an acurate time. But I believe, if my math serves me right, that my second run time was 35 mins. At the end of the day, I ran about 8 km today. Hopefully, I’ll be able to sleep nicely tonight… unlike the night before.

Tuesday, 26 January 2010

FAIL. I failed to complete my route today. My feet started to fail on me only 1 km into the run. I feel bad for not completing the route today. I’m tempted to run after our meeting tonight… Probably not going to happen though. I need to find the motivation…

Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Considering registering for Harry’s Spring Run-Off for March 7 as a tune up for the Sun Run. This 8km run should gauge how prepared I will be for the Sun Run.

Friday, 29 January 2010

Went for a 15 lap 6km run with Cesar, my “running coach”. I’ve never run this far without stopping. I was so pleased with my performance, I  managed to cut +20 seconds from my lap time on the last lap only to find out that we were 1 lap short of 15. RATS!!!! I feel so cheated… by skills that a 1st grader should have. Til’ Next time…

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Fail.  I had about an hour to kill and I thought I would go and try to run 8km this day. Unfortunately, Cesar was not able to come with me, but I ended up running anyway. It seems that I don’t have the motivation without someone there to encourage me. I stopped at 4km walk a lap or to then brought it in. I’m so disappointed in myself.

Wednesday, 3 February 2010

The road to redemption is a rocky road. After the failure of the previous day, I managed to convince Anna, Eric, Len, Kiki, and Cesar to run with me. It started raining but we continued anyways. After about 2.5km I could not seem to find the energy or motivation to keep going. I decide to run some sprints, walking then sprinting 50-100m. Interestingly enough another person on the track decided to give me pointers on my running technique.

On the way home, both legs (calves and quads) severely cramped and spasmed. As i stepped over a ledge one leg locked up and then the other as i stepped with the other. So i was left with two legs locked up, slowly falling on my back. As I lay on the sidewalk with Eric and Cesar stretching my calves whiel at the same time streching my quads. I’m sure it looked like a scene from some soft core porn movies for passer bys.I later realized that I had not had any liquids that day and all that cramping was liekly due to dehydration.

The road to the Sun Run continues…

Monday, February 22, 2010,

It has been almost three weeks since my last entry. For those actually following my progress, you may be wondering how my progress has been.  Well… blame it on the Olympics, blame it on being sick, or blame it on the weather; I haven’t run since my last entry. The Harry Rossen Run Off is 13 days from today! Oh no!

Although I haven’t been running, I haven’t been completely inactive. I’ve still been in the gym, played basketball, and been on long walks to explore the Olympics City of Vancouver.

Dang… time to get back on track!

Thusday 1 April 2010

Again… it’s been a while since my last post about this topic.  I’ve been busy with other things. You’ll  see some of my activities int he newer posts.

Although I haven’t been running lately, I’ve been concentrating on eating healthier to loose some weight for the run. I figure 5-10lbs less to lug around during a 10km would help.

Gonna start training for the run again soon. Wish me luck!

Sunday,9 April 2010 Final Entry… For now

I may not have the greatest time. The winner could have lapped me twice. But the journey was awesome! The road leading to it (in hind sight) was a reaffirmation that we can accomplish anything we we put our hearts and mind to.

Below is a song that really inspired my to continue pushing when my legs had decide to give out and cramp up with 2 Km left.

Alive Again – Matt Maher

I woke up in darkness
surrounded by silence
oh where, where have I gone?
I woke to reality
losing its grip on me
oh where, where have I gone?
Cause I can see the light
before I see the sunrise

You called and you shouted
broke through my deafness
now I’m breathing in
and breathing out
I’m alive again!

You shattered my darkness
washed away my blindness
now I’m breathing in
and breathing out
I’m alive again!

Late have I loved you,
you waited for me,
I searched for you…
what took me so long?
I was looking outside
as if love would ever want to hide
I’m finding I was wrong
Cause I can feel the wind
before it hits my skin

You called and you shouted
broke through my deafness
now I’m breathing in
and breathing out
I’m alive again!

You shattered my darkness
washed away my blindness
now I’m breathing in
and breathing out
I’m alive again! I’m alive again!

Cause I want you!
Yes, I want you,
I need you
And I’ll do what ever I have to
Just to get through
cause I love you
Yeah, I love you!

You called and you shouted
broke through my deafness
now I’m breathing in
and breathing out
I’m alive again!

You shattered my darkness
washed away my blindness
now I’m breathing in
and breathing out
I’m alive again!

Well… for those who have taken the time to follow my journey to completing my first Sun Run, Thank you! Hopefully my ramblings have inspired you to reach for a goal that you may see as impossible.

Enjoy!

A Fronda Farm Production.

We served spaghetti, rice crispy squares, muffins, and allergy cookies (contains peanuts). At first, we didn’t appear to have enough food for everyone, but by God’s grace we were able to serve all that came to the kitchen. In fact the last cup of spaghetti went to the last person in line. We were later told that most lunches stop serving by 12:45-1:00pm. We closed the kitchen around 2:45pm. Praise God!

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed him on foot from the towns. When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick. As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”

Jesus replied, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.”

“We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered.

“Bring them here to me,” he said. And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.

-Matthew 14:13-21

Are you feeling the ache? A feeling that you can’t take away? A feeling empty or unfulfilled? Can you relate to this video?

The Christian Life Program

The Christian Life Program (CLP) is an integrated course intended to lead the program participants into a renewed understanding of and response to God’s call to them as Christians. The program has a total of 13 separate sessions, usually held once a week.

Content of the CLP

The CLP starts with an Orientation Session, then goes into 3 modules of 4 sessions each.

The first module presents the absolute basics of Christian life. The second module presents the kind of life that God calls us to, and helps singles to make a reorientation of their lives around Jesus. The third module helps singles to appropriate for their lives the power of the Holy Spirit, and provides the basis for continuing spiritual growth.

Contact

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Can’t find anything better to do than read my meandering over the past few weeks? Well, we visited the Van Dusen Botanical Gardens Festival of lights on Sunday 27 December 2009 and were treated to menagerie of light displays and… well more light displays.

Several minutes after walking around aimlessly in the cold I realized that I have not seen any real flowers. Van Dusen is a botanical garden after all. Well, to
be more exact Van Dusen is the founder who is a person… but you know what I mean.

There were a few displays that I enjoyed:

• Make A Wish Candle Shrine – The Make A Wish candle shrine stood out for me because of it’s simplicity. Unfortunately, I appeared that people missed that true concept of the exhibit. I heard several parent’s telling their children make a wish on their candle.  Seemingly not knowing that the display was to raise funds for the Make  A Wish foundation. The Make A Wish foundation is an organization that aims to grant wishes to terminally ill children. In reality, I believe that the “shrine” should have been treated more like a prayer for the children, rather than a self serving, wishing well type display. But that’s just me.

• Dancing Lights – As we walked around the garden, I noticed flickering lights. For a moment I thought that it was a signal for patrons to leave the garden since it was nearing closing time. OR,  a catastrophic cascading black out brought about by, what seemed like, the millions of millions of Christmas light that adorned that garden (mostly not LED by the way).  After several minutes of brainstorming several worst-case scenarios in my head, i realized that the flickering lights were synchronized to the music being piped through the speakers. Then the Awe factor kicked in soon afterward.

To conclude by keyboard diarrhea, with a few mugs of hot chocolate, a warm coat, and eyes of a child the Van Dusen Festival of lights was a great experience (although there was not one flower to seen). It was highlighted by sharing the experience with a few good friends. This jsut goes to show that no matter where you are or what you do, it is the company that you keep that make an event worth remembering.. or blogging about.  I suggest you take a  few good friends and enjoy the dancing lights before the holiday season ends for 2009.

Peace!

… so we decided to recreate it…

(Left to Right: Joey Boayes, Me, Matt Hermano, Cesar Rivera, Ed Custodio, Mike Chudyk)

… A Fronda Farm Production.

Bottom line is , even when you see’em coming,
you’re not ready for the big moments,
No one asks for their life to change, not really.
But it does…
So what are we? helpless? puppets?
no…
The big moments are gonna come, you can’t help that,
it’s what you do afterwards that counts
that’s when you find out who you are.”
- Buffy

This will be a photoblog of my adventures… assuming that I decide to keep it updated.

Please stay tuned!!!