Steeplechase

I was a tracker once b4..a long time ago..i still love runnin n sprinting..though i'm way off form now..

i was watchin e live telecast of an episode of e Commonwealth games last nite on e telly tube...guess wat was plyin? Steeplechase..dis event realli brings out e best in atheletes..long-d runnin plus obstacles..includin a water-filled trench..atheletes realli need 2 measure their pace in dis event man..

how dis event got its quaint n archaic name is a strange footnote of history..apparently, in e late Victorian 1800s in England, burglars broke into houses via chimneys...cops would climb up onto roof-tops to wait for them to come out of the chimneys in e neighbourhood n catch them red-handed (with e loot)..well e burglars would run as soon as they caught sight of e cops on a nearby roof-top..n e cops would, needless 2 say, give chase..so began a chase dat traversed the tops of roofs of houses, courtyards, town halls n most often, culminate in e burglar slidin off e (STEEP) steeple of e local church n on to terra firma..n e cops were not usualli so bold to follow them down..runnin on roof-tops is no mean feat..n in 1900s Edwardian England, pple decided 2 make e steeplechase into a sport of (literalli) Olympic proportions..endurance, obstacle clearin speed n good footin were from e start essential pre-requisites of e sport...

so then, i was watchin Ugandan competitor Dorcas Itiuri (i guess dats how its spelt) runnin with e Australian atheletes close behind her..notabli Kim Rawlinson came close to overtakin her...n e Australian commentators were sayin how Uganda had never won a Gold at e Commonwealth Games in Track n Field..n how good n prepared Kim Rawlinson was..n at 1 lap, when Dorcas Itiuri was tirin visibly, they were crowin,"Looks like e Gold is goin to Australia after all..well Dorcas Was a tough competitor but it looks like Kim's got it made" or something to dat effect..with 2 laps to go still..

n then, e unthinkable happened in e 2nd last lap...Kim Rawlinson stumbled when clearin e hurdle (e cops would have gotten her in Victorian England)...a momentary blip but tired Dorcas slipped past..n e gap widened exponentially...n e Crowd roared...poor 3rd world Uganda received her 1st Gold in Track n Field at the Commonwealth Games in e most gruellin event...there's an old Arabic phrase for such a moment..Kull Wahad...I am profoundli stirred..

e world n human beings will alwaez say, "oh, u're not good enough..u dun hav it in u..u've had such a history of injury u're never comin back..blah, blah, blah.." i'm very fed up of their nonsense..but sometimes i actualli begin to believe them...u're not good enough for Christ or to be loved by anyone...then some1 like Dorcas Itiuri comes up n runs e race n makes a statement..."F* u!"...who r u pple to look down on us? God has not given up on us..who r u on even who am i to give up??

run i say, run like ur life depends on it..run like there's no tomorrow..run for everything dat should have been but was not..run for all dat God had for u but dat e world tries to deny u n mi...Run Free..Thank You Dorcas for dat lesson...