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Chasing Grace: What the Quarter Mile Has Taught Me about God and Life

✍ Scribed by Richards-Ross, Sanya

Book ID
109587657
Publisher
Zondervan
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Weight
3 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780310350170

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✦ Synopsis

"For as long as I can remember, life has been measured in seconds. The fewer, the better."

Most people equate success with having more, but Sanya's quest was always for less. She starting running track as a little girl in Jamaica and began competing when she was only seven. At 31 she's had a career's worth of conditioning to run a 400-meter race in 50 seconds, hopefully 49, or even better, 48.

When she started training with her coach, Clyde Hart, they divided her race into four phases: push, pace, position, poise, and with the inherent prayer. For years Sanya worked to hone every phase in practice so that when it came time to race, her body would respond as her mind instinctively transitioned from one phase to the next. As she got older and embraced a life that measures more than just a number on the time clock, she has realized the genius of this strategy for not just racing the 400 meters, but for living her best life.

Sanya shares triumphant as well as...

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