This month Sadie Robertson Huff tackles body image through a workshop available on her app LOsister: “What better way to start the body image conversation this month than with ambassador Carol Bevil’s You are Altogether Beautiful blog post.
Read MoreBut where we are vulnerable and broken in the waiting…there is Christ. We must wait at the foot of the Cross. Under the shelter of God’s wings. Fully armored. We must wait like Christ.
Read MoreSo what differentiates healthy friendships and marriages from Biblical ones?
Read MoreDo you know your incalculable worth to God?
Read MoreNever forget, no matter how the world and the enemy try to tear you down and tear you apart, you my beautiful sister have been ANOINTED as HIS ROYAL PRIESTHOOD; set apart to love His people as Christ loved you.
Read More“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” Matthew 6:33
In Matthew, Chapter 6, verse 33, Jesus commands us to seek the Kingdom first and place God above all things.
Read MoreWhen working with clients, one of the foundational questions we have to address is: How can involuntary behaviors and prevailing thoughts/feelings be transformed? The definition of habit reveals much:
Read MoreNot just your average Tour...
And the countdown begins to next year. True the podium doesn’t reflect it, but this Tour was not just a calculated defense; it was a sit on the edge of your seat, what will happen today RACE!
Read MoreAnd the hits keep coming as the roads go up.
Welcome to the Alps. The next three Stages will give us the man to wear yellow into Paris. All three days in the Alps are grueling and the first is perhaps the worst (the longest at 200km, 124 miles). Sprinters will do their best to not get eliminated.
The GC takes a back seat to the sprinters....but not any crosswinds.
As the third week of the Tour begins, the sprinters have two more opportunities for Stage wins: today and in Paris. Of course, with the Alps in between (Stages that can eliminate sprinters), today is perhaps their best last chance.
Another day, another summit finish....
Three Category 1 climbs, 4700 meters of elevation gain and 185 km in the saddle (115 miles) marks the last day in the Pyrenees. The start will be the same:
The race of truth...
Today’s Stage is the only individual time trial. The circuit course is not very technical, but the first 15km is undulating —up/down/repeat with a few small steep ramps and false flats. The second half is flatter but has a bite at the end and kicks up for about 200 meters.
Read MoreIn a Tour that continues to defy the expected, to the mountains we go.....
The Pyrenees. Today is a tale of two races. The first 130 km (80 miles) is a gradual, steady slog slightly uphill to an intermediate sprint.
Of Sprinters or breakaway specialists....
Another day of undulating, hilly terrain. The climbs are easier. The finish offers an opportunity for a bunch sprint. So, perhaps, the peloton and sprinters’ teams will be motivated to keep the breakaway in check? We can hope.
Just another day for a breakaway and Stage win glory or.......
After a long, steady day in the saddle (a welcome respite in the relentlessly tough first week of the Tour and a rare gift for the sprinters) , the Tour comes to yet another day suited for the breakaway specialists. Stage 8 includes 7 categorized climbs
Read MoreHello hilly Vosges! Today is a brand new sorta day......
Read MoreWe finally enter France.....
Today the Tour organizers continue their quest to make the first week of the race more interesting than the repetitive hours of flat road riding, marketing breakaways, and a field sprint finish. True, the first 170km is exactly that, but with 30km remaining the riders will encounter three Category 3 climbs (climbs are ranked according to certain guidelines and are rated from most difficult 1 to the least 4.
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