Rock out with your Sox's out

So the race is 16 weeks away and I feel like I am right on track. I have blown away my goal of running 25 miles in Jan. Today I stand at 32 miles but I am shooting for 40. I have noticed a huge spike in my energy levels. One thing that has been a huge lesson for me is that when I have this extra energy I have a stronger desire to serve others.

Which is what I really want to talk about. I have this idea to pass out socks to the homeless. I am sure you are are very aware that it has been very cold lately. I think that now more than ever homeless people need socks. When it gets this cold many homeless people will use socks as hand warmers. They also throw out their socks when they get too wet. So if anyone would like to join me send me an email or call me up. I am collecting socks for the Winter and will be going out every couple of weeks to pas them out.

Oh one more thing. I have this huge desire to go and hunt wild Boar. I know it is random but you know you want to come? Never done it but feel like it would be a great adventure. I am very much looking forward to doing it. So if anyone has any connections let do it.

Sunshine Garden Juno

I love my life! For the first time in a while I love my life. Due to the nature of my job I spend a lot of time around people with disabilities. Tonight I met a married couple that are both in wheelchairs. They have a hard time speaking and have a hard time feeding their selves. They smile all of the time. They love life and they love each other. They showed me so much kindness tonight by inviting me into their homes. It is hard to find a time in which they do not smile. I am currently working with a pair of guys that have some issues with short-term memory loss. They want so badly to settle down and have families of their own. They want so badly to be loved and accepted by their peers. They were both in a car accident that brought on this issue. It is kind of like the Drew Barrymore movie 50 First Dates every day. But deep within this disability they want to move on but they have this anchor attached to them while they try to tread water. They have awareness but cannot move on. Today I went to the beach and saw a cool family and wanted so badly for him to be able to have this one day.

Most of my life I have felt like I deserved to be married or have a healthy child or live the American dream and buy my first home. I have even had days where I was upset with God because I have none of this. Today I realize that I have none of this because God wants me to come to His Throne and bow down in thankful worship when life is not done by my will. When life looks like a Sunshine Garden Juno.
As a man society has ingrained in us that we are what we do. That our profession defines our manhood. In today’s world staying in a profession for thirty years is long and gone. Even if the employee was loyal employers are not. How does a man go about being a man if they are changing jobs so often? If our identity is tied to this our world is in trouble.
In my head this is the nakedness that Adam felt. With many men finding their identity on shaky ground, thus you have so many men running and not really knowing who they are. Today our world says that if you get a woman pregnant you are a man or if you make a lot of money you are a man. Then why do you have boys still living with their mothers and having the girlfriends move in? Married men who struggle with their own identity and run off after being together for years. Swearing before God and men they “Till death do we Part”. In my opinion this is just a huge identity crisis. I feel that because most men do not feel equipped they run. They do not finish what they start when things get hard. I want to change this.
I want to change men’s hearts and help to equip those who feel ill equipped. Or at least stand by their side during the journey. My housemates and I have a huge heart for this mission.

Got The Fogtown Itch

Well I must say yesterday started off being one of those probably should not have gotten out of bed. The main issue was that I had some car trouble. No bueno. The amazing thing is I have this mechanic that was able to fix it in a couple of hours. Josh is the man! I think many times you start off with a thorn in your paw and it sours your whole day. I think when I was younger things stupid things like this would happen and the train would be derailed. But lately I have been taken fights to later rounds and rolling with the punches. Enough of the analogies. I can’t help it.


I am only five days deep into the month and I have run 8 miles with 17 to go. I don’t want to get cocky but I don’t think I will have any trouble.

One new revelation for me is that all my life I have been looking towards the future and having trouble enjoying the now. I think that has been changing a tad. In the last month I have been on two road trip. One where my housemates and me drove to SLO without a plan and without a mission. Strangely we ended up staying in a friend’s barn on the property of a movie star. He started off cursing at us for driving on his lawn. We thought that was going to make for an achward night but we ended up staying up until almost 2am talking about life and adventure. I could have never imagined a better road trip. Sometimes you just have to let a wild horse run. I know I said I would stop. I could not resist.

Today I am in San Francisco where I picked a friend up from the Airport and have been chillen with cool peeps ever since. I am staring out the window at Alcatraz Island. It is one of those soggy rainy days where you just want make a great breakfast with friends, have some Joe while listening to tunes that make you want to dance in your socks on hardwood floors. Here is a little tune that with at least get your foot tapping.

Last year as a Twenty-Something

The name of my Blog is obviously a play on words. One of the biggest goals I have for the year is to compete in the Wildflower Triathlon that takes place on Sunday May 4, 2008. http://www.tricalifornia.com/index.cfm/Wildflower2008-main.htm . My weakness is the running leg of the event so I have a structured goal to get me in shape to make it happen. I know that many people have lofty goals but most do not finish. My theme this year is not in trying new things but in finishing great things. I feel that many men and woman try but give in right at crucial moments. I don't know why but this year has started off much better than most. I have set some goals and already made progress to get them done.

My goal in January is to run 25 miles in the month. I just got back from running 5 miles. Chalk it up!

I have many goals as far as serving in the church and serving in my community after all in the end who cares about physical and business achievements. When it's all said and done it is about what I have done for the least of these. I can't picture myself looking at my friends and family on my death bed thinking I wish I had done one more triathlon.

If I had a mission statement on my heart it would be to be obedient to what God asks of me. To be a good son,brother,uncle,and friend. To be someone who picks a friend up from the airport. Helps a friend move, cheers someone up when they are down. One day if God allows I would love to be a good husband and father. God is still good if he does not allow for this.