Well one more day past, and now I am only 16 hours from heading back to good old oregon.  I'm pretty excited about that.  My family will finally get to see me run again and I will also get to see so many of my friends.  This is truly a gift from God, and I'm just about to tell you why.

So our team was scheduled to go to Arizona 2 weeks ago, and that would mean that we weren't going to be running in Oregon at all this year.  This was making me sad since I rarely get to go home and see my family because it's so expensive to fly home.  well when the week of Arizona came coach called all of us distance runners in and told us that he would not be taking anyone over 1500 meters because it was going to be so hot, 95 to be exact.  He though that it would be a bad idea because we had been training in 40-50 degree weather and 95 would just overwhelm us.  So I was a little disappointed with this until coach told us the alternative.  We were going to take that weekend off, run at our home meet and then go to the Oregon Invitational instead.  Now when i heard this news I was extremely excited.  Then I really got excited when I realized that I would be running the race on my birthday, so that means I could go to dinner with my family and friends on my birthday.  

So God truly does have a plan.  He basically gave me a birthday present this year.  God is so good to us and does everything for a reason even if it doesn't seem that great at the moment.  I'm so thankful that he is an awesome God and a loving one as well.  I am definitely not going to take this for granted, and I am not going to waste this opportunity.  

-Jake Keyser