I spent Saturday binge-watching the World’s Toughest Race series on Amazon.

It is a 650-kilometer adventure race consisting of sailing, paddleboarding, hiking through jungles, swimming through dangerously cold water and repelling down waterfalls — all done with little or no sleep — over the course of three days for the most elite professional teams and 11 days for the amateur teams.

At the end, I was reminded of the words of Saint Paul:

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith,” 2 Timothy 4:7.

And it occurred to me that the World’s Toughest Race is an excellent allegory for life.