Training week 2!

So this week I got up to 5 miles, and I have $250! (YAY!) My week went (day by day starting with Monday) 3,3,Rest,4,3,5. The last day was by far my easiest day this week. I don't know why my early shorter days were so hard but I was really struggling. I would have to sit there and pray over and over in my mind that God would give me the strength to get through it.
I don't know if I told everyone the story behind my doing this run. I had been thinking about doing a half marathon for a little while and someone mentioned the Disney runs, so I looked into them and saw the Disney Princess run. It looked fun to me but I didn't have anyone to do it with and they didn't allow dogs to come so I decided not to do it. Then in church someone said their friend was doing a mini triathlon so I thought ooo, that might be fun plus its not just running and if I find a local one I bet I can bring the dog. So I looked up local triathlons and the first thing that popped yo was the Disney Princess run... not the Disney runs, the Disney Princess run specifically. I thought that was peculiar since I had just looked at it earlier and again thought about doing it but again I talked myself out of it by arguing that while training, my longest runs would be when I was in school so I wouldn't really have time to do it. Then the very next day my boss said he heard about the Disney Princess runs in Orlando and thought I might be interested in. Well here I finally started to get the message. Someone was putting this run in front of my face way more often than for it to be just a coincidence. So I prayed. I told God that I didn't know why he would want someone to run for him, that seemed a bit random, but that I really felt like he was trying to tell me to do it. So I asked him to give me one more push if it was what he wanted me to do and that I would do it even though I still didn't understand why the God of everything would want me to do something as simple as run. So I waited and sure enough a couple days later I heard about Team Freedom on my radio and I heard about Abolition International (IA) and I just started to cry. I wasn't sure why I was crying but I knew this was God telling me to run. I looked up how much money I had to raise to be a part of team freedom and I was definitely daunted but I knew God would provide it. As I started writing my letter of support I started looking up information on IA and the statistics associated with human trafficking and I started crying again. It broke my heart to hear about all those little babies existing day after day after day in a living hell and then I thought how much pain it must cause God, the one who loves children so deeply, to see this happening in our world to his favorite little ones. And then I knew why God wanted me to run for him.
So that's why I run. And when I have hard days I just pray He always gives me that extra push to finish. So that's my story and that's really why I'm doing this.
Thank you all for the prayers, my knees are pain free and my asthma has not once given me problems so praise the Lord for that. The only pain I have is in my ankle although it usually goes away pretty quickly. Next week I should be up to 7 miles so wish me luck!