Waiting for Endurance
On August 28, Sarah Loogman will be circumnavigating the island of Oahu by swim, run, paddle, ruck and bike as an awareness-driver and fundraiser for this organization. This effort of approximately 150 miles will take roughly 20-24 hours and complete as a single stretch. As the founder of Point One Vision, Sarah is intentional about depicting the message of this organization and to fully embody all that it aims to represent.
From Sarah -
I hadn’t imagined myself operating a ministry organization. I hadn’t imagined myself training for a multi sport endurance event. I certainly hadn’t imagined those two things having anything to do with the other.
Point One Vision was really incepted in May of 2017 at a reckoning point of my identity. I knew in that moment that glory was not what I thought it looked like and that I would not reach it how I thought I would. Like a baby deer I started to stumble into what it means to walk with God. With great discomfort I began to imagine how He would have me breathe, move and carry immeasurably more than I could’ve built the capacity for myself. In a perhaps rare case I can say that choosing Christ did not feel entirely like choosing hope or freedom. Mostly, it felt terrifying because I had absolutely no idea what I was doing.
I started to feel my legs beneath me when this organization was legally cemented in 2019 with its 501(c)3 nonprofit status. Most of the time it just felt like I was waiting. Waiting for the right person or circumstance to show up. Waiting for the right timing. Waiting for an answer or response. Waiting for the appointed moment to speak. Waiting just for the learned patience of waiting. Waiting to feel seen.
For an eager, (then) Type A personality, the waiting was the hardest part. As someone who valued work ethic above almost anything, it made my skin crawl. To slow down or to wait felt like going into reverse against the timeline of the only universe I knew. For a person living on the intense rush of momentum, it was death. Now looking back I can see that the death was precisely the point.
Through the dying I knew that these days would someday be; a state even better than before. Well I couldn’t know, I suppose, but the sovereignty of God held an intimate promise that I hedged every bet of my life upon. I’d later learn to call that leap, faith. And today I feel that. I feel the movement of water through my skin as if I were a part of the very wave itself. I feel the ground rush beneath my feet as if all I had to do was stay still. I feel the things I carry, not as a burden, but as a very part of me. If I must summarize it, I feel momentum. I feel the rushing wind and reverberating motion that comes when the Holy Spirit moves and shapes the atmosphere itself.
Funny, how the body will follow - but of course it does.
What looks like just 5 weeks of physical training is merely the practice of 4 years of learning what the endurance of faith means and I’m only just scratching the surface, I’m sure. It’s been a process of learning how to create space and release tension. It’s been a process of falling forward and expecting the next step to fall below my foot. It’s been a process of withstanding the pressures I’m called for rather than the ones I create. It’s been a process of releasing expectation of every manner. Its been a process of acknowledging disappointment. It’s been a process of accepting that I am already known more than the envied perception of feeling seen.
If I were to fulfill this task, which I certainly hope to, it will only be because I’ve learned principle over power. So far, that calculation has not failed me so I expectantly pray that someday I look back at these experiences as the catalyst to something far greater.
In the meantime and while the lessons are still here, I’d love your support.
The total distances that Sarah will cover to circumnavigate Oahu will include:
2 mile swim
13 mile run
15 mile kayak paddle
10 mile sandbag carry
100 mile bike ride
To see her daily practice, mental strategy and preparation for this ultra endurance effort, follow her personal social account and view the Pentathlon highlight reel.
The Oahu Pentathlon is a fundraising event for Point One Vision. Make a contribution to any of our campaign funds (we want YOU to choose exactly where your money goes) to show support for Sarah and this ultra distance effort!
