About a year ago, I went to my usual parkrun one Saturday morning as part of my plan to maintain my fitness. During the morning brief at the parkrun, it was announced that part of the route had to be changed due to the park being used for another event. You can imagine what went through my mind when I heard that; I became nervous! The new running route was a bit more uphill than the original route and looking at it from a distance, it seemed very challenging. Also as I was not familiar with the new route I had to follow other people around so I don’t get lost which meant that I had to run at their pace. I was good up to a point during the first lap of the run when I begun to feel tiredness kick in. At that moment, I felt the Lord begun to speak to me about “running the race”. It was a powerful moment for me and I was encouraged to finish the race and not quit, though it was challenging.

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