5.6 miles @ 9:46/mi including 3 x 1 mile repeats at 7:51, 7:53, and 8:04 with 1/4 mile rest in between. This is my weekly "remind my body how to run faster" run. Larry had walked to the track with Ozzie but didn't run. Kent didn't make it this morning either so I was alone. It was hard work, especially the third repeat, but I'm still optimistic about little signs of improvement. At the beginning of our lesson in priesthood meeting yesterday, our teacher (Ken Slater) wrote the acronyms MTTY and LTTT on the chalk board. I find it fun to try to guess what acronyms stand for, but couldn't figure these out. They are "More Today Than Yesterday" and "Less Tomorrow Than Today". I don't think I'll forget them. They represent one of the key principles (to me) of success, achievement, growth, and change. This principle is also reflected in "line upon line", "here a little there a little", and "by small and simple things are great things brought to pass." I've had some excerpts from the following quote by David O. McKay on my bathroom mirror for years: "Little things are but parts of the great. The grass does not spring up full grown by eruption. ...The rain does not fall in masses but in drops...Intellect, feeling, habit, character, all become what they are through the influence of little things...it is by little things, by little actions, that every one of us is going—not by leaps, yet surely by inches—either to life or death eternal. "Life, after all, is made up of little things. Our life, our being, physically, is made up of little heart beats. Let that little heart stop beating, and life in this world ceases. The great sun is a mighty force in the universe, but we receive the blessings of his rays because they come to us as little beams, which, taken in the aggregate, fill the whole world with sunlight. The dark night is made pleasant by the glimmer of what seem to be little stars; and so the true Christian life is made up of little Christ-like acts performed this hour, this minute—in the home, in the quorum, in the organization, in the town, wherever our life and acts may be cast." There is application of this principle to running, as to all other aspects of life. | 