I’m running in my first race ever this next Saturday. The East Berlin Area Community Center sponsors a 5k every summer & this year I decided to run. I’ve been running for 30 years & have logged over 30,000 miles but none of them in a race. My intelligent side keeps telling me, Just run your normal pace & finish: to finish is a victory in and of itself. My insane side says, You don’t want to look like a total loser. There are people older than you running in this thing & some of them are real runners. You need to train & you need to dig or die trying.
Do you have an insane side? Thank goodness for the Holy Spirit that helps us get life sorted out! He comes along to help us put things into eternal perspective. No one but me really cares how fast I run this Saturday. Regardless of the outcome, life will go on just fine.