Welcome to the Fallout

As I ran today, these words from Lance Armstrong guided my thoughts.

"What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what the sport was-in a straight-ahead, long-distance race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it."

My view of mental strength and fortitude is being reshaped by this marathon training, and I think I am beginning to understand what Paul spoke about in Romans 8 on the topic of present sufferings and future glory.