So lets talk about long distance (or Marathon) running vs. short distance ( or race). There are two components to long distance running, cardiovascular and Musculoskeletal Resilience (this is your muscle and skeleton ability to bounce back).
In a short race its fast and you need the ability to get oxygen from the atmosphere to your mitochondria ( these are "power house cells" and their main function is to produce energy) as fast as possible.
As a race distance increases you are putting more emphasis on your Musculoskeletal Resilience factor than your cardiovascular. You are going to relying more on your muscle and bones. Now in a long distance run you need need the ability to tolerate compressive and ground reaction forces on your Musculoskletal system. Typically you will feel the stress in your joints and muscles by the sixth miles.
Ok so now how do I apply this to me? Glad you asked... Remember life is not a race it is a marathon.
I joked with a sister and said that everyone is a runner. This is true, we are all running in some way whether you like it or not. How you run your race is up to you. Approach it like a race and you get burned out and possibly quit. Faith will probably get you to about the fifth mile. True authentic faith is the faith you need to go the distance. It is the faith that runs deeper, it is the Musculoskeletal Resilience that goes beyond the mitochondria.
It has been said that "faith is like a muscle the more it is exercised the stronger it gets." A marathon course is no different from our course in life. There are times we are running up hills, and there are times when the pavement is flat. I know that any hill behind me makes me stronger for the next hill. when I hit the flat pavement I rejoice but maintain a steady pace because I know that soon I will be running another hill.
Unlike a "earthly marathon", we will not pass the finish line till the day we are in the presence of Jesus. When we come face to face with him and he puts a crown on our head and say.........
What will he say about your race? You finished well? You barely finished? Or Wow, I thought you would never finish? What type of runner are you? There are three types of runners. One that starts a race and doesn't finish, one that starts and just finishes and one that starts and finishes well. I will talk about those runners tomorrow!!!!
Running to win!
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