The older I get the more I know that exercise is very important to my health and my overall mood. When I am faithful in my exercising I feel better, I sleep better, I don’t gain weight, and I like life better, I just have a much more positive outlook on just about everything.

I go through spurts on being faithful to it, just like my Bible reading, praying, scripture memory, and book reading disciplines. It is easy to get out of the routine and back slide into mediocrity and laziness.

One of the things that keeps my exercise discipline going well is if I have a goal that motivates me to do the daily grind stuff. I participate in a long distance bicycle ride most summers because if I don’t I get very sporadic in my stationary bike riding. Several of my older friends, not as old as me, but getting up there, said that they were going to train for a half marathon this coming Spring. One of the most motivating things for me is to do hard things with others. So I have decided that I am going to start training to run the same half marathon. I have run almost thirty half marathons in my lifetime, but they were all back in the day when I ran three or four half’s a year, but I have not run one now for 10 years, but I am going to run one this coming April. At least I am going to give it my best effort, and who knows I might even beat my friends, we will see.