What Does Running Have To Do With Christian Life?

In the classic movie Chariots of Fire, the competitive Oxford athlete, Harold Abrams, watches his arch rival, Eric Liddell, run and is afraid that he cannot outrun him in a contest.  He's sitting in the bleachers after the crowd has left, alone and dejected, his head buried in his hands when his girlfriend sits down to console him.  "If I can't win, I won't run," he cries. And she replies, "If you don't run, you can't win!"