Too Many Things to Stay Focused

Miles Run:29.41
Miles Biked:65.75
Total Miles:95.16
Days to Rainier:156
Summit Team:7.55
Aspirin Tablets:15

Well there are too many little thing happening to really give any depth, so I will try for superficiality today.
I found out today that Google Earth has a magical feature that will generate an elevation profile of any route on Earth. So I entered my current running course and generated this sweet graph. As a total stats guy, I love graphs.

My last two runs were really great. That foot injury was all healed up and by the grace of God didn't bother me. Another thing that probably helped was implementing some common sense activities as part of my run:
(1) Dynamic stretching: a full range of motion quick stretch before starting and during my four brief breaks during the run
(2) Posture: maintaining a head high running position (allowing more lung capacity), squaring up my arms to keep a forward orientation, and making sure to keep a more smooth transition from stride to stride
(3) Drinkning more water especially post run
(4) Static stretching: after runs stretch out all major muscle groups in slow 20-30 second motionless stretching
For any athlete these are probably pretty obvious. However for someone like me who couldn't even make the high school baseball team, I had to do some research to find these little things out. No doubt I am still missing all kinds of techniques and injury reducing rituals, but maybe after making more mistakes I will discover them. Funny that a guy who has spent 6 years doing pro video work with DII and DI Football teams and has seen thousands of stretching drills never put two and two together to realize that dynamic stretching might be a good idea...
So this week I managed to dress up my desk at the office by including this great picture my grandmother created for me:

I have been out to this light house in Pemaquid Maine out on the Atlantic. It is a true likeness. I had the privilege of spending a sunny afternoon with Ethan, Cassie, and Rachael out near the lighthouse. Fond memories of my Epic Road Trip.
As part of my Internship with Mars Hill, I ran across Michael S. and his Myspace page. He is a techno remixer and Here is his page (be sure to check out the song "Fire and Brimstone", he samples Mark Driscoll in his mix). Amazing the talent some folks have.
In completely unrelated news my internship brought me across this rather cryptic quote from the famous Greek Historian Herodotus:

Ou Phrontis, I don't care!

Herodotus recounted the story of a young man who acted with such unreserved exultation at his wedding party that the bride's father (a king) called off the wedding. In responce the young man in the throws of mad exuberance shouted "Ou Phrontis (the king), I don't care!" The story is awesome for the ridiculous audacity of a foolish man living life madly, but passionately (not unlike Kerouac). TE Lawrence liked the story so much he engraved the phrase and placed a permanent reminder above his door. That way any man who came over would know Lawrence's pad was a sweet spot to unwind and forget even the most pressing worries in life. That would be amazing. Really, I want a little of that.
Again switching subjects faster than Rooster Cogburn (just saw True Grit with Greg, pretty good flick from the Coen Brothers) can draw a revolver, yesterday my community group provided a perfect place for God to remind me of his kindness. A week ago last Sunday I walked from 9pm to midnight thinking about my pride and the ridiculous opinion I have of myself. Christ was there through Freemont, across the Aurora Bridge, up old 99, through Belltown, under the scrapers downtown, past the stadiums showing me my arrogance and his forgiveness. Redemption. "The only way our of folly, sin, me-ism, habitual arrogance is worship", Pastor Noreiga's continual refrain. Behavior modification doesn't work. Neither does despair. It was a good walk and better still when I shared my struggle with pride with my church family.
Moving right along (I need to rest, tomorrow is a 16 hour day of interning and campus cleanup), I found this picture from three or four weeks back:

After a community group, we had a snow ball fight this is what my hair looked like following the white combat.
So with all those random pieces of my life clumsily covered, I leave you all with this picture of a beautiful spider's web: