Some people are runners. Sometimes it’s not the easiest to successfully do so on the World Race. Here’s 10 simple steps to get you started!

Step one: Put on culturally-appropriate clothing (Note, leggings or “skin tights” do not always cover the “no knees” rule) But, good news, in Tallinn pretty much anything goes so do a little happy dance in your Nike shorts and running tank.

Step two: Excitedly exclaim to your team, “Who wants to go RUHHHHH-NINGGGGG?!?!?!”

                IF you get an exuberant yes, please skip to step 9 (and then ignore step 10)

Step three: If there is a lack of mutual delight on the subject of running, take a moment to step into a nearby room, remove the look of shock, bewilderment, and disbelief off of your face.

Step four: Emerge back and excitedly exclaim to your team, “Who wants to go sit in a PUHHHHH-ARRRKKK with free WiFi?!?!”

Step five: Select the first hand that you see (or lovingly pick a fellow introvert with a look of desperation for some alone time) and say, “I choose YOU, Pikachu!”

Step six: Before anyone can change their mind, grab your bus card, make sure your partner has their water (for you), make sure your partner has their nook (or phone or book or other time-occupying object) and bound out of the door.

Step seven: Arrive at the park. Plop your partner down in the beautiful sunshine.

Step eight: Take a last sip of water

Step nine: Take a deep breath of sweet, sweet victory.

Step ten: Run small-ish circles around your partner in established park. It’s all about celebrating the little things  

An example of your would-be map

Therefore, since you on [the world race] are surrounded by such a great cloud of incredible witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. (Hebrews 12:1)

(see the Bible agrees)

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