The Trenches

“It’s the journey that should be the reward, not the destination.”
At times this is a hard thing to get your head wrapped around that the journey is the reward, the time in the trenches!!! Doing the tough training on windy days or late night run sessions, or missing out on going for dinner and 5:00am [...]

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belief!!

“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”

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Love the idea!!!

Let there be respect for the earth,
Peace for its people,
Love in our lives,
Delight in the good,
Forgiveness for past wrongs
And from now on, a new start.
millennium resolution – rev. peter trow – 1999

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grab the sports section.

I always turn to the sports pages first,
which records people’s accomplishments.
The front page has nothing but man’s failures.

Chief Justice Earl Warren
 
Our world can look in pretty bad shape if we just look at the front pages, War, poverty, hopelessness, terrorism and the list keeps going but I think there is a lot of [...]

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Cheating???

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e~mergent Kiwi

I read this guys blog in New Zealand Steve Taylor, he is a pastor of a church and has some very interesting ideas on what is church. It is a big step away from going to church on Sundays sitting in a pew and enduring a sermon!!! His community is full of smaller groups of [...]

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Faith!

I was reading one of my friends blogs and liked this quote from Greys Anatomy she had posted, thanks Sarah.
“At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don’t really expect it. It’s like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you [...]

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Cycling!!

I don’t know about you but I have found the tour de France amazing this year. Because the field is so open with no one person dominating, the strategy and team tactics have been so much more evident – it has opened up a whole new understanding of cycling and made it more exciting [...]

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I really should be asleep?!@

One of the clear distinctions between animals and humans is that we are not happy to merely survive we are driven to thrive!!!Why do we have this drive? What is it in us that makes us move beyond what would simply keep us alive and reach out for more? Why are there quotes around that [...]

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ERGO sessions are just doing good stuff for us!!

The club just received this email from Lisa about the money raised by the club ergo sessions. If you did not know each week rather than paying for the session we are raising money for some charity or mission, the past two weeks we have been raising money for Lisa’s work place and getting the [...]

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Rocky Fan?

IronMario 2007 – Training Montage – English version

I am a bit of a Rocky fan as this guy obviously is !! I think I would like to meet IronMario. I wonder if his whole Ironman campaign was only 60 days???? It just made me laugh…
I need to get some of the [...]

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Stories

IronMan Brazil 2007

Not really sure if the following fits here but anyway!!! We all have a story, it is one of the reasons why I love to meet new people! It doesn’t matter who you meet they have unique experiences, unique relationships and a unique view or picture of the world- [...]

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The Way It Is

There’s a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But it doesn’t change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing.
You have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can’t get lost.
Tragedies happen; people get hurt
or die; and you suffer and get [...]

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Trinity

“Follow me”

Sunday just passed was Trinity Sunday – the Trinity is not one of the easiest things to understand from the Christian Church. I found a group of triathletes in the states that likes to use this explanation using the symbol above. The triquetra (from a Latin word meaning “three cornered”), is an ancient [...]

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“Blazeman” – John Blais

Hi,
BLAZEMAN press here to go to the link

Just wanted to add this link to the site today – it’s about the passing of the “Blazeman” – John Blais, who suffered from Lou Gehrig’s disease (a motor neuron degenerative disease) with very high mortality – John was diagnosed in May 2005. Steph and I met him [...]

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a bit about faith!

GREAT QUOTE from Steve Turner in Q about U2 and faith: ‘Bono is publicly quiet about the faith that inspires the songs because, he says, it’s far too precious to dice into newspaper quotes. Three years ago he made the point like this: “What I have to say is so important that I’d only trust [...]

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A Gift

Some one gave me this the other day when I was feeling pretty crap about stuff !
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves.
“Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?”
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a [...]

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