A walk/run beyond words

I ended up going to North Glenmore park and went for a walk:run 3:1 x 7 -0 soooo, awesome this is what my evening was... God knows, I tell you, He knows!

Ok what a night I had tonight... listen to this...ok read this... 
 
First off I drove about 30min to another side of the city to
meet a friend so we could go for a walk with a walking
group. I realized about 2 hours before we were suppose
 to meet there that the group wasn't actually meeting
but I couldn't get a hold of her so I drove up there to
meet her anyway. 
 
We meet almost every Wednesday and she lives close
to where I work so normally we wouldn't each drive
30min to meet but tonight we did. Finally I get up
there and she walks up to me and says, "I can't walk
tonight the doctor told me I can't" huh?? No problemo,
I completely respect that. We chat for a little bit and
I take off. I decide to go for a run of walk 3mins and
run 1 7 times at a park near my house. 
 
As I am in my second walking session a man walks
by me and says, "I like the way you walk! You walk
with confidence, it's great." I had to ask him to
repeat himself because I didn't hear him and he said,
"You walk nice and tall it's great!" "Well thank you."
I said, he says, "Well it's true. Keep enjoying this
lovely evening!" "I will thank you - you too!" He was
such a pleasant man!
 
He was right about it being a lovely evening. To start
my run I ran in to the sunset towards the mountains.
It was beautiful and on the way back I ran towards
a blue, purple, and pink sky that reflected in the
lake and a full moon ahead, it was truly lovely!! 
 
Then I was just finished my  last set of running
and I ran by a friend from college. She is so
bubbly and positive, she's great! I was all super
sweaty and stuff so she gave me a hug anyway and
asked what I was doing. I told her I was training
for Iceland. See - she is the one that told me
years ago about the Team Diabetes (or another
similar team) for a half marathon in Iceland!
She ended up not going but still she's the one
that told me about it. 
 
Anyway, we get talking and we start talking about
jobs and what we would like to do in life and
how our current jobs just aren't quite as positive as
we would like them to be - we work in media.
The talking continues and we talked about how nice
it would be to do more positive stuff in media. 
 
We talked until it was dark and we couldn't see each
other - probably an hour. Her  husband was super
awesome too. We start talking about how great it
was that we saw each other and we connected.
They said they never go for walks in at the park
but decided just to go tonight. They were saying
everything happens for a reason. Then we
realized we live on the same BLOCK!!! isn't that
amazing!! So if we ever want to work on little
projects or something  it won't be hard!! God knows!

GOD IS AMAZING and I feel like maybe there is a plan...
and I thank HIM that I went for my run tonight - who
would have thought I would run a good run and connect
with my friend. HE did I guess... but I sure didn't. Everything
happens for a reason, both good and bad!  
 
Jocelyn

Training Plan for 10k walk

It was suggested to me by a friend that I should post my training plan and then update more often on how I am doing and how the training went. Well the idea of posting a entire training plan for everything until Iceland was daunting so I have decided to post my training plan for up to the 10k walk race on Sept. 19th - here it goes...

Sept 2 - interval with Anita tonight at 6:30
Sept. 3 - 12 min NEWO 6:30am
Sept. 4 - 30min interval 6:30am
Sept. 5 - 9k walk 8:00am at the farm
Sept. 6 - Rest Day

Sept 7 - 30min interval after work at 6:00
Sept 8 - 18min NEWO 6:30am
Sept 9 - interval with Anita 6:30pm
Sept 10 - 18 min NEWO 6:30am
Sept 11 - 30min interval 6:30am
Sept 12 - 6-8k with Anita around the river
Sept 13 - Rest Day

Sept 14 - 30min interval 6:30am
Sept 15 - 18 min NEWO 6:30am
Sept 16 - easy walk with Anita 6:30pm
Sept 17 - 18 min NEWO
Sept 18 - Rest Day
SEPT 19th - 10k RACE DAY!!! GO ANITA AND JOCELYN!!!

So that's the plan folks! The goal after this race is the half marathon but I will post about that one later... just too much to think about it all right away. I look forward to posting again and letting you know how I am doing.

Thanks for the support,

jocelyn