Tag: running
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Nairobi: a runner’s snapshot
In some ways it’s not unlike anywhere in the western world, full of people trying to eek out a living day-to-day. Oh, the roads aren’t the best, and a maze of potholes combines with frequent and unmarked speed bumps to keep traffic slow. Only the wealthy few even have cars to dodge potholes, but trucks, […]
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the race not run
I was training for a marathon – the Paris Marathon. It would be romantic, beautiful and epic! But first and foremost, I am a follower of Jesus. Therefore, each morning begins with God, reading His Word and seeking His heart for the day. Then I head off to work and run during my lunch breaks. […]
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what it takes
Slick ran the other day. He wants to run these short training runs at 8 minutes per mile. He’s training for the Paris marathon and he’d like to run it in under in four hours (roughly 9 minutes per mile). But on this run, he initially didn’t have a set goal. He just wanted run […]
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a good race
2500 years after the first person ran from Marathon to Athens, bearing news of victory, I seized the opportunity to retrace his path with 12,499 of my closest running friends (lol). Thankfully, unlike that first runner, none of us dropped dead. Rather, we celebrated completion in the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece. At the start, […]
Cleverly Disguised 