I also have been jogging and I am pleased to say that I can now jog for thirty minutes straight. This ability has greatly increased my fitness over all, and now I am not completely winded after free sparring matches in Tae-Kwon-Do or at least not as completely winded as I was.
If it looks like we are about to knee each other, we probably did. I am in the blue.
Me and my sparring partners, who are better than me, but slightly smaller which somewhat intimidates them. The little black belt on the right was my photographer for the night.(to continue...) But is this good enough? Am I content just to run in giant circles and also kick people for fun and health? Of course not! So now my roommate Mike and I have decided to start to follow the crossfit workout. "Crossfit" is short for "cross fitness" which means it makes you fit for any sport you want. It does this by working out a couple of bits of your body intensley at a time. All the workouts should take about twenty minutes and there is a daily workout posted on the crossfit website. They are all pretty high impact, and difficult. However you can scale them down and work your way up. All you have to do is get a hold of the equitment or figure out substitutes (which they help with) and do it. So it should be good. We started today, and like they said, it was intense.
I don't know if I mentioned this before, but secretly, besides the obvious health benifits, I am doing this in anticipation of going to the Clown Conservatory.
Lets see... Ah! Mike and I also went to the mountain near Doeksan last weekend. We saw wild goats, some squirrles and a snake, as well as ofcourse a huge mountain we hiked up. This time I did bring my camera.
A view from about half way up the mountain.
Me. You asked for it. :)
Another one of me by a small waterfall on the mountain
Going down?Finally, I am delighted to say that my spiritual awakening to the always present presence of God is still going well. Miraculously well really. I don't know how describe it adequetly other than to say that I have started to be able to actually do the things Jesus tells us to do out of love rather than because it is the imposed right thing to do or out of fear that people may think ill of me if I don't do them. It is incredibly liberating. The weirdest thing though is I can see God helping me.
For instance, Mike and I had planned to go to the PC cafe after I got out of Tae Kwon Do. But the guys at TKD asked me if I wanted to eat with them. I said yes. Then I remembered that I had told mike I would meet him after TKD and I didn't know how long we would be and I didn't want him to worry about me or get upset that I didn't show up on time. But then I came back to the present and let it go. Thinking that we were going somewhere to eat. I go down stairs from the gym and walk outside. Looking for further instruction, I turn and there is Mike coming around the corner to go to the bathroom on the first floor of the building my TKD gym is in. We exchange news and there is no problem. If I had come outside two minutes before or after or if I hadn't come down at all thinking we were going somewhere (turns out we weren't, one of the blackbelts went and got some microwave burgers from the cornerstore down stairs) we would have missed eachother and he would have been wondering about where I was and concerned for me and I would have had a hard time not feeling guilty about it.
Now this may seem like a small thing. A conicidence perhaps. But there have been an awful lot of them lately and they all revolve around grace, love, need, and peace. I have been seeing what I need to see, and hearing what I need to hear.
Amazing grace how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now I am found
Was blind, but now I see...
I get it.
Peace.
