Coyotes = Motivation: Week 8

        Whoooo  I did 30 miles on Sunday.. 2.54 hours... yeah that is on a Mountain Bike..  lots of drag and lots of noise..  that brings me to the wild pack..
          I was heading down to the Campbellton cut off which is 15 miles from my house along the access road. i hit the McCoy cut off and was really excited about the next leg until about a mile into on a down hill... have you ever heard a baby rabbit get caught by a dog before.. they kind have a squeaky scream to them... and that was exactly what my bike started to sound like.  Really that's no big deal to me, my bike often sound like that as i get later in to routes.. but on this day that was the worst thing it could sound like.. ha ha.. I grew up in the country, i have been around alot things, even been out when some coyotes have been out, but this bunch of coyotes i heard that were not to far from the road, sounded like a pack of 20+..  needless to say sounding like a baby rabbit being caught in the middle of no where armed with just a pocket knife that I carry, didn't seem like the place to pick a stand against a bunch of Coyotes... ha ha i know some other routes that are in town the could help me accomplish the same thing..
             so with that in mind.. i turned the bike around, and boogied up a really big hill.  it was great motivation for me to peddle faster that was for sure. it was about a mile before i didn't hear them any more..
so the next time you are out cycling in the early morning hours or evening hours and you don't feel like you have enough motivation, just don't oil you bike down, or carry a small sound device that plays the sounds of a rabbit being caught by a dog, and you can have some Coyotes give you some motivation to move a little bit faster..
          it has been a great Sunday, and feel really good about accomplishing the goal of 30 miles and keeping a 10 mph pace.. that is until we figured out that to do 115 miles in an iron man you have to keep closer to a 20-30mph pace.. so yeah i have some work to do to really push my self.
          this continues to be a great time of prayer for me, and just speaking to God and asking him to come and speak to me give me direction, insight, and to fall more deeply in love with him through out my day.  I try to focus on that the most before my my drifts off to other prayer request and or to some foreign land of thought that is random in my head as i push up and the down the hills.
                 again i want to encourage all of you.. i have not gotten where i am today so far by make huge adjustments in my life... my goal still is consistency, it's not to loose weight but go the  distance, then after distance it's a better/quality time within that distance.  the other half of the goal of consistency is not to give up, not to quit, to keep going.. I don't know what your goals are for the new year, but keep going, do not give up, be Consistent, and most importantly pray through the goals you have set before yourself to make sure they are the Goals that God wants you to try to accomplish.. don't give up, you can do this.. aaaaaarrrrrrrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ! even if it takes a little Coyote motivation... ha ha.