Strengthen Your Brethren
Yesterday I went to a mountain bike event for two of my sons. They each raced, and one of them was in the last race of the day. He finished the course in about 48 minutes, and after that we were waiting to watch the awards since one of his friends made the top five. We waited for what seemed like a long time when finally they came over and announced that there would be no awards until the last racer had finished. Most of us did not realize there was anyone still riding, but there was one more racer on the course trying to finish those five miles. So the event organizers asked us who were standing there to come over to the finish line and cheer this athlete on as he came in. There were probably fifty of us at the finish line cheering his name as he came in 77 th out of 77 and over 25 minutes later than the next rider. I believe he had had a crash which is what had slowed him down so much, and I was impressed that he was determined to keep going. And it was really amazing to me to see e...