plant and run

Spillway Run | July 12, 2009

official(?) course map

So I am one week away from the 3 mile Spillway Classic. Last night I got the course map emailed to me by the race director. I got on Google Maps and looked at the Satellite shot and compared the two to try to get some type of idea of what I’ll encounter. Looks like a lot of fun. Anybody wanna run it with me? Here is a NOLA.com slideshow of last year’s race.

Training has gone well. Although I’m realizing my age, that is for sure. In the past six month or so, I’ve run a 10k faster then I ever did in high school (I broke 48 mins), but I don’t expect that I’ll come close to high school times on these shorter runs. I don’t exactly remember my PR for the typical Cross Country 3 mile race, but I do remember that it was under 20 mins. Now, if I could break 22 mins, I would be ecstatic. We will see. Of course, my time for this race will a little longer since we’ll be dodging puddles and slipping through muddy bogs.

I know I haven’t posted in a while. A lot has happened over the past couple of weeks that I need to share here. Alf and Aly Nelson, the co-planting couple moved down to New Orleans this week. Yay! We have begun working on their Gentilly home (it’s gutted…needs to be renovated). We have raised close to 50% of the support we need for this first 10-month stage of planting (for Alf and Aly to start things while Crystal and I go through the FA residency program). Some exciting things have happened on the street ministry front as we have pulled a couple more people off of the streets and gotten them help. Say a prayer for Thomas and Tamara, a young couple who are giving their lives over to Christ, leaving the streets and heroin behind and starting over.

And that is just a small taste of all that has happened over the last couple of weeks.

I’ll write more about all of that later. Right now I’m at PJs and I need to head over to church…