Trusting the Race Director
A week ago, I spoke at our school chapel. The theme for the month of March was "Running the Race God Has for Us." So, obviously, as the only crazy runner on staff, I got asked to speak, being deemed the most "qualified" person on the subject of racing. I was excited to do it. Any time I am allowed to talk about running and Jesus, I will take it. But while I prepared to walk students--sixth grade to twelfth grade--through this very unsettling question, I, too, had to grapple: "What does it look like to run the race God has set before us?" Most of you in the running world have no doubt heard of the Barkley Marathons. Ya know? “The Race that Eats Its Young.” Did Gary Cantrell give it that subtitle, or did runners come up with that? Either way. It has a super inviting descriptor. For those of you who have never heard of it or only heard of it in passing or scrolling, "it takes place in Frozen Head State Park in Tennessee, and the idea for the race was c...
