Subscribed to the Run The Race podcast yet? Every week, you'll get to hear fascinating guests like the one this week: Pastor Jeff Struecker, a former Ranger and Army Chaplain who's been on numerous tours to Iraq, Afghanistan and other places like Somalia where he fought in the famous battle at Mogadishu depicted in the movie "Black Hawk Down." He talks a lot about that conflict and how it led to a call to ministry.

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) Struecker also chats with me about the intense fitness he had to do to win the Best Ranger competition (almost a decade after he started his Army career on Fort Benning), motivation to stay in shape, preaching for a new church during the COVID-19 pandemic, mixing military with faith, and dispelling myths about Christians being weak or not being able to have a warrior mentality.

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On your journeys of fitness and faith, we are helping you stay motivated to be stronger physically and spiritually on the new RUN THE RACE podcast. Host Jason Dennis - veteran WTVM news anchor, marathon runner and missionary, will talk to experts and people with inspiring stories as we dig deeper into the mind, body and soul.