Mo Farah is a British athlete of Somali origins. He won this week Britain’s first-ever European gold medal at 10,000m. I found the following quote in the Independent, dated 29th July. Farah lived for a time with some Kenyan runners and said of them : “The Kenyan runners are so humble and hard working. They run, sleep, train and that’s it. I’m living my life in that manner now. That’s exactly what you have to do to be amongst the best in the world.”
Is that what Paul had in mind when he wrote to the Corinthians:
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. 1 Corinthians 9: 24-27