SPRING100 week 9 is finished! WAY TO GO!!!! 👏🏼 How did this week go for you?? SO much energy and determination taking place in this challenge.💯 THANK YOU! Now is the time to log your miles for week 9 in the easy mile log below. We count Monday-Sunday as a week cycle here at Spring100 so add up the miles walked May 9-15th based on that! Any questions regarding the log or Spring100, feel free to shoot me an email! info@spring100challenge.com
Spring100 Featured photographer: Nelson Family
“No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.”
2 Timothy 2:4-5
I love meditating on the above verse from 2 Timothy 2 whenever I decide to go out for a run! I often think about this verse right alongside our Spring100 Theme verse where we are told to “lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily ensnares us”! To be entangled or ensnared means to be trapped or caught up in something that will hinder movement. The word WEIGHT mentioned in Hebrews 12:1 means “a burden or something so heavy and cumbersome that it impedes a runner from running his race as he should.” So just like you wouldn’t run a marathon with a backpack full of cumbersome bricks or ropes tied around your legs that will trip you up, you don’t want run the spiritual race with spiritual bricks that will weigh you down and keep you from running to your fullest. We are commanded to lay aside or THROW OFF these weights and sin and in God’s strenth +by His grace, we can do just that. 🙌🏻 “ I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13. With these verses on my mind this week, how about a fun CHALLANGE? 😃 Here is the challenge for week 10 of Spring100:
CHALLENGE- This week make it your goal to walk a mile with a little extra weight just to get the feel of what that extra spiritual weight feels like and what a relief it is to finally take it off and walk unencumbered. 💁🏼♀️Whether it be hand weights, extra-large canned veggies, a weighted back-pack, sibling riding piggyback, or maybe just your baby on your front-pack! Get creative and snap a picture of how you did the weight challenge and send it in for next week’s post letting us know how it went for you!
I am looking forward to seeing how creative you all get. Soooooo, are you ready to tackle week 10 of the Spring100? LET’S DO IT!!!!! 🙌🏻💯
Please note: this is only a suggested challenge and is not required. Please do not attempt this challenge if you are dealing with any health issues or do not feel physically qualified to try. Join at your own discretion! Thank you.
QUESTION: With just about 1 month left in this challenge, what is the most helpful tip you can give a Spring100er who is behind on their miles?? Please comment below and let us know!
This Week’s Spring100 Scripture Reading Plan- May 16th-May 22nd (optional):
• Monday: Hagia 1-2
•Tuesday: Zechariah 1
•Wednesday: Zechariah 2
•Thursday: Zechariah 3
•Friday: Zechariah 4
•Saturday: Zechariah 5
•Sunday: Zechariah 6
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This large Spring100 walking group walked for their treat!! “An 8 mile walk with a Canadian reward!!😁” LOVE IT! 🙌🏻 Great job!! 💯
Amanda S. checking in for week 9!! She says, “Reaching the halfway mark in my goal in the Arkansas heat this week! 👍🏻☀️” WAY TO GO, Amanda!!!!!🙌🏻🎉
Always a pleasure to see the Halbach family walking together!! They are making their way to the Spring100 Finish line. Keep up the great work!! 👏🏼👏🏼
The Keller family checking in for week 9!! They write, “Often, as this one, we take it in our neighborhood park.” What gorgeous scenery!!! 😍🏔🙋🏼♀️
Rosalie, Grace and Jesiah checking in as they grab their miles together for week 9!! Keep up the great work. The “finish line” is so close! 🙋🏼♀️💯
CONGRATULATIONS to these 3!!!!! Jonathon + Stephen+ their mother completed their 100 mile challenge and crossed the “Spring100 Finish Line”!🥳🙌🏻💯
Lydia + Emmi enjoying sweet evening sunsets and farm animals grab their Spring100 miles! 🎉💯 Great job!!
John Silvey checking in for week 9! He says, “Taking a selfie with our dog Boone seems like more of a challenge than this challenge! I also came across this turtle who would not come out of its shell.” Love the photos, John. Keep up the great work!! 🙌🏻🏃🏻♂️👍🏻
Maddie, Klair, Emily, and dog Asia tackling week 9 of Spring100 together!!👏🏼👏🏼🙋🏼♀️
Anna P. writes, “It’s been a bit since I’ve gotten a good walk in but excited to be catching up on miles!! Let’s press on and try hard to reach 100 at only 40 miles 😂 cheering all on who are ahead, at 100 already or behind like me-we can do it! 💪🏻” — Nasby family checking in and say, “We are walking inside tonight. We did .4 miles by Marching in the Infantry and Going on a Bear Hunt. 😛” Great job! Keep it up!!🙌🏻💯
Jon and Bethany M. enjoying a gorgeous walk with Bethany’s sister Lydia and and Dad for week 9! 🙌🏻💯
Lynn S. grabbing a Spring100 walk with neices Sarah + Grace and Noel J. checking in for week 9 of the Spring100! 🙋🏼♀️🧡 Keep up the great walking, ladies!!
Mathew Family enjoying gorgeous walking weather!! They say, “We can finally take walks without our jackets and hoodies!” YAY!! 👏🏼☀️ Keep it up!!
Marv and Rebekah got to spend some quality time with Rebekah’s sister Nathalie on an Alabama backpacking trip! Great photos!! 👏🏼👍🏻
The Harbour and Hooper families grabbing miles together in the North Louisiana woods! So glad y’all had that time walking together!! 🏃🏻♂️🏃🏼♀️💯
Sarah B. checking in and write, “Hello from Alabama! Walking with my beautiful family! ❤️” Jen, Joanne, Barbara enjoying a great group Spring100 walk in Kansas!👏🏼
Blessed to have the Barnes saying “hello” for week 9! They are having fun exploring a new local park and grabbing miles together. 🙋🏼♀️🙌🏻💯
Jeremiah, Ruthie, Abigail, Naomi, and Grace S. and Liz M. It was so much fun walking with my nieces and nephew who are fellow Spring 100ers! 🙌🏻 Such a fabulous walking group!! 💯
Bethany, Grace, + Reed on their neighborhood trail in Albuquerque and Elizabeth P. writes, “Week 8 took us to The Big Horn Mountains in near Buffalo, Wy. We walked miles and miles to get some really beautiful views! It was worth it, for sure.” Such gorgeous scenery!! 🏔💯
Eva, Lucy, Laura, + Gavin grabbing their Spring100 miles together and enjoying eachother’s company!! 💯🧡 Great job!!
Bethany M, Angel and Faron D enjoying miles together! Bethany writes, “We had the best kind of company for our Spring100 walk this afternoon!” The Griggs ladies blessed to have a beautiful Mother’s Day walk with their sweet mother for week 9!♥️🙋🏼♀️💯
The Renfer Family enjoying some gorgeous weather for their Spring100 walks this week!! So happy to see you all checking in for week 9. Keep up the great work! 👏🏼🙋🏼♀️
Rachel S. writes, “On vacation in the mountains of WV and completed a 4-mile hike on the first day with the whole family! These wildflowers were alongside the trail!” Great job and gorgeous photos!!🙌🏻♥️
Sterling, Autumn and Carmen Wilson walking their Spring100 miles in Wyoming with their faithful dog BB!!🐕🧡
The Silveys on a Mother’s Day afternoon walk and enjoying sweet time together! 👏🏼🙌🏻💯
The Nelson siblings checking in and saying “Hello”! They are grabbing miles and enjoyhing gorgeous sunsets for week 9.👏🏼👏🏼💯
The Habbs and McAlisters enjoying a beautiful walk together in the mountains of NC for week 9! Such a fun group photo. Great job y’all! 🙋🏼♀️
Briana + Autumn getting their miles in and Lydia M. checking in as she enjoyes a fun Spring100 group walk an gorgeous sunset!👏🏼💯
Reed family doing Spring100 together and all smiles for week 9!! Great walking group and FABULOUS photo!!🎉👏🏼
Alison, Dana, + Rebecca exploring the beautiful Colorado Rockies and racking up those miles and Sarah C. accomplished a 5K for week 9 of the Spring100!! Great job!! 🏃🏼♀️🙌🏻
Thenhaus’s and Traum’s Exploring Arkansas together and grabbing their miles! Love the Spring100 group photo. 🙌🏻
Elizabeth Brown enjoying a nighttime walk with her little brother Josiah. Elizabeth says, “I’ve really enjoyed the quality time I’ve been able to spend with my siblings. I just love the fun conversations that build up our relationships.” LOVE hearing this! Praise the Lord.👏🏼🙋🏼♀️♥️
Louise writes, “Me and my little brother Titus taking a walk on a Gorgeous spring Day, Titus has been super diligent and already has 149 miles!” WAY TO GO you two!!!!!!!!!! Keep it up!!🎉💯
Caroline F. checking in for week 9! She writes, “we took a nice Sunday walk in Pella, Iowa where each year they plant TONS of different tulips and it was SO pretty!💙” Love the photos, Caroline!!😍
Mary M. writs in and says, “We took our Mother’s Day walk with Mom on Mother’s Day proper, so we weren’t able to send it for last week’s post 😊 We love you, Mom!” 💝
Adria and Doris Baloga enjoying fun sister talks on their Spring100 walks and Keilah sends in a sweet sight as she grabs her miles!! 🌺💯
Myra grabbing her miles and enjoy time with her sweet little sister, Verity, for week 9! 🙌🏻🧡💯
This past week has been FULL and really blessed week here for me! My family was blessed with fabulous a visit from fellow Spring100ers and we all enjoyed grabbing a couple miles together. 🙌🏻 Keep on pressing forward!! We are almost to the finish line. I am praying for each and every one of you as you set out to reach your week 10 walking goals! 🙋🏼♀️
“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
Hebrews 12:1-2
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Thomas Moss
For anyone who is behind on your miles, I would encourage you to make walking part of your daily schedule. If you make it mandatory, if at all possible, you will walk more. Another idea is to make walking more fun and enjoyable. I like to read books while walking, and that makes it easier to help pass the time better. You can also find people to race against such as siblings or friends for who can finish their 100 miles first so it will be more motivating. I hope that these tips help!
Rachel @Spring100
Love these tips, Thomas!! So helpful. THANK YOU!! 👏🏼👏🏼
Liz M.
I have found that if I wake up early and go for a walk, I can get more miles in. Then if I can get another one later that’s even better.
Rachel @Spring100
Wonderful advice! It’s the same for me. I have to get my miles in first thing or else chances are pretty good I won’t later on in the day! 🫣🧡
Hannah Stiff
Hey everyone! Lovely weather in this part of Canada. Enjoying the change after a winter everybody thought would never end. (: I would encourage those who are behind in their miles to walk whenever they have 10+ minutes to spare. It’s amazing how little strolls add up! I’ve done that several times and am encouraged and surprised when I gain more miles than if I had done only one big walk in my day. And again, don’t let the challenge get in the way of the fun, fellowship, and faith building part of Spring 100!
Rachel @Spring100
Oh!!! Fabulous idea, Hannah! It’s true. You probably could get half a mile in in just 10 minutes 😍.
Ruthie S.
Several familiar faces! Great job y’all!
I am right on track with my miles now, thankfully. To anyone falling behind, I would say just keep pressing on because you can do it!! And make it a point to get those miles!
Rachel @Spring100
Yes!!! 🙌🏼♥️👏🏼💯
Autumn
I just took my baby sister on a piggyback ride on our walk this morning – before even reading this post. Challenge accomplished!! For those of you who are behind, just try to walk every day you can – as much as you can. Don’t ever be like, “should i walk? I don’t feel like it, i’m so far behind already.” No! Just do it. The miles add up quicker than you’d think. Grab a friend and press on!
Rachel @Spring100
“Just do it.” YES! Love your encouragement. THANK YOU, Autumn!! 🙋🏼♀️🧡
Abigail Stiff
Hi guys! Great to see lots of smiling, familiar faces today! Being a Canadian, I was also happy to see the beginning picture! Love it!❤🍁 For those who are behind, I would suggest if you have a dog, to take him/her for a long walk.And always ask Jesus for help! Keep it up and see how much you can do. Hope y’all have a wonderful week!
Rachel @Spring100
“always ask Jesus for help!” AMEN! Love your comment, Abigail! 👏🏼
Keilah
Don’t procrastinate! 🙂 I tend to do that a lot, and would never get to 100 miles if I procrastinated with walking. Just go outside and do it! You’ll probably be glad you did afterward. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Rachel @Spring100
“Don’t procrastinate!” I couldn’t agree more!!!!🙋🏼♀️👏🏼
Justus
Praise the Lord! I am over 50%. As an answer to this weeks question I think what’s best to getting caught up is walking as many miles as you can, and you should get caught up.
Rachel @Spring100
Way to go, Justus!!!!!!!! Praise the Lord, indeed. Almost there! 👏🏼
Caroline Flournoy
I would encourage you to grab a buddy and challenge each other and push each other to finish! 🥳 Also as someone else already mentioned, to try and make walking a routine part of your day.😀 I try to walk a mile each evening, and sometimes I’m not able to, but knowing that it’s in my schedule helps me to remember to do it. With my goal this year, I have to walk 4.50 miles every day for the rest of the challenge if I’m going to make it to my goal and I’m cheering all you others who have a lot left to walk as well! 😉 You can do this!🥰 just run in the strength of our God! 😊 He will give you the strength to complete what he has planned for you!😃
I’ve been thinking about this verse this week when seeing all the tons of dandelions on my walks…Seeing them all when they first come up, then seeing them get fluffy and shed their seeds (like putting off the old man) and then being carried away and made to grow as a whole new dandelion(kind of like putting on the new man). I just thought it was an interesting picture.😀
“if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.” Ephesians 4:20–22
Happy walking this week and have fun with the weight challenge!😀 This is one of my favorite weeks of SPRING100!!🥳🥰😉 I love the weight challenge!😂
Rachel @Spring100
“grab a buddy and challenge each other and push each other to finish!” Love the idea of finding a walking buddy challenging each other! THANK YOU for sharing those beautiful verses from Ephesians 4. So blessed by them!! 🙋🏼♀️💓
Melissa Ansiel
Hello! It was so fun to see the pictures of Pella, Iowa because we lived there for four years, and loved Tulip Time Festival!
I’ve already crossed the 100 miles finish line, but my personal goal is over 200, so I’m just over halfway there! My tips for those struggling to walk daily are many!
Look up local parks and state parks in your area, and plan to explore these places. I find I am much more motivated to walk longer distances when I am on an excursion somewhere new and have a fun destination at the end of the trail, like a waterfall or covered bridge!
Plan a personal scavenger hunt along your walk, like trying to identify as many wildflowers or trees as possible, discovering insects, birdwatching, or look for cloud types in the sky,
If you are walking with younger children, this helps them focus on the hunt rather than the miles. Make sure you bring along your camera to photograph your finds.
Walk with friends! It is always encouraging to have fellowship and godly conversation along the way. When I’m unable to walk with family or friends, I use the time to converse with my Heavenly Father.
My absolute favorite time of day to walk is right before and after sunset. God paints an amazing picture in the sky, unique to each day, and it is usually cooler at this time.
Night walks are also fun when you have a safe area to walk with other people. We enjoy looking at the constellations, moon phases, and sometimes see some shooting stars.
All of that to say, mix it up a bit and do something different each day to make walking a joy rather than something to check of your list!
Rachel @Spring100
Melissa! I loved every single one of your tips. WOW! THANK YOU!👏🏼💯