Why do runners sometimes feel the need to explain a slower run before anyone has even asked?
“Easy run.” “Hilly.” “Tired legs.” “Windy today.”
In this episode, Bjørn-Ivar looks at some of the funny little habits many of us have on Strava, from adding explanations to our runs to taking an extra loop around the parking lot just to make the watch say 10K.
But behind the humour is something more familiar: the way we can start measuring ourselves against other people without really noticing it.
A run can feel perfectly good until we see that somebody else ran faster. And the same thing can happen far beyond running, with work, money, confidence, success and even faith.
Reflecting on 2 Corinthians 10:12 and Galatians 6:4, Bjørn-Ivar considers the difference between wanting to grow and needing somebody else to be the measuring stick.
Because pace can tell us something about a run.
It cannot tell us who we are. And God has never needed our Strava disclaimer.
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