The 5K has a reputation for being a race distance for beginners, and while this is true, it isn’t simply the “fun run” that it’s often made out to be. It’s a distance that requires both strength and speed and happens to draw some of the world’s best long-distance competitors. Case in point: Sir Mo Farah is the current Olympic 5K champion. Mohamad Farrah just under 13 minutes.

For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.

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