Article May 20, 2013 Issue

Trail running...with Love

Quinn Heinbaugh

Running is one of my biggest passions. So you can imagine how excited I was when I had the opportunity to run 15 miles during my time at a summer camp for Christian Scientists! The camp offered trail running as a free choice activity, and I enthusiastically signed up.

I knew it would be hard. The path we were going to run started at 9,000 feet in elevation and wove up about 1,300 feet in altitude. This meant I would be going up against big hills, and harder breathing due to the high altitudes, which challenges even the fittest athletes. We woke up at 6:00 that morning, and as our small running group drove out to the site we were to start from, I was feeling very nervous. This would be longer than any route I had run before.

I was expressing God through running, and His qualities can't be exhausted or run out.