Dear Lord/Allah/Buddha/Vishnu/L. Ron,
Give me the strength to complete this next mile. Create in me a clean heart, powerful lungs, and light feet. Make me a vessel for your forgiveness, especially when a pack of bikers force me off the trail and into the damned poison ivy. Lead me not into swamplands, and deliver me from blisters. Grant me the grace to set a PR at my next race, and the wisdom to stay the hell inside on the treadmill when it's 10 degrees out and snowing sideways. Bestow upon me the fortitude to stay with my faster friends and the patience to wait for those slower. Give me the guts to keep running when I want to stop, and the brains to stop when I know I should. Line my routes with interesting sights and fascinating people. Bless me with friends and family who will run with me in sunshine and rain, heat and snow.
And most of all, Lord, don't make me have to poop when I reach the halfway point of a 12-mile out-and-back.
Amen
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