On February 27, I am registered to run the Rock N’ Roll Half-Marathon in Las Vegas.

I have not trained well up until this point. I am not prepared. This is not good.

With my dire situation in mind, here are 25 compelling, motivating reasons why, over the next 25 days, I need to focus and train like I know I am capable of training…

It will be a waste of money if I can’t finish the race.
It will be a waste of time if I can’t finish the race.
I need to work out.
Training for and finishing this race will motivate me to run another one.
I need to be a man of my word. If I say I'm going to do something, I need to do it.
I can’t let another month go by without taking my physical health more seriously.
The goal of finishing this half-marathon will require me to also achieve a more important goal - re-instilling the habit of consistently exercising.
The feeling I’ll get when I cross the finish line and receive the medal will be so fulfilling.
Finishing races makes my wife proud.
Finishing races makes my dad proud.
An unhealthy leader/pastor is not a leader/pastor worth following.
The less I train the more painful running the race will be.
If I can’t muster up the resolve to train for this half-marathon, it would mean I am more lazy and un-disciplined than I think I am.
The joy I experience when I run will return as I start to run again.
It is poor stewardship to not run in the expensive Nike running shoes that I purchased for running!
I’d rather experience the pain of training than the embarrassment of telling people I didn’t end up running the race because I didn’t have the discipline to train.
New sermon illustrations await me.
There may be people who end up motivated to run a future half-marathon with me because they see/hear about me finishing this race.
The character development I will undergo in the process of training is priceless.
Training will give me more to write about than not training.
While I train, I can simultaneously be thinking about content creation.
If I don’t train to run this half-marathon, comfort will have superseded my convictions. This is not the type of man I want to be.
Physical health and spiritual health are inextricably linked. To think otherwise is naive.
The more I train, the less guilty I feel about eating what I love to eat!
I want to share a picture of the accomplishment in my February PAZUPDATE!

3 mile training run. Tomorrow. No excuses.