The Race is ON « Alex’s Weblog

So after weeks of training for the MS150, I'm feeling ready to rock.  I wrote my packing list of bike gear and camping supplies.  The bike in Texas has been secured and checked out at the bike store.  Now I just have to make sure I can muster up the will to ride 160 miles.

Last night my friend Joe gave a great analogy about running a race.

Is you stand at the starting line of a marathon, its pretty common to imagine finishing the race.  You have 30 miles between you and the finish tape snapping across your chest (this means that you win by the way), which leaves room for any number of trips stumbles and chaotic moments to prevent that finish.  So, it's wise to imagine the best and envision the success.  He likened this to the race of life, and the biblical promise that Jesus came so that "they may have life, and have it to the full."  That the finish is already promised, that the race is already completed and won.  Knowing that there will be success makes each step a choice, because its already done.

So for the ride in Texas, we have 844,800 feet to ride.  131,000 revolutions of the wheels.  I hope this weekend I can also imagine the race won.