Inspired by her father’s passion for the sport, Jen laced up her running shoes as a young girl and never looked back. Old photo and video footage captures the early years: bright-eyed races, high school finish lines, and a growing identity shaped around speed, discipline, and victory.

For decades, running was her measure of self-worth. Until 2016.

That’s when her heart changed toward God, and then the miles she logged began to tell a different story. A subsequent injury slowed her pace but opened her heart. She began to run not for the clock, but for communion – with God, with His creation, and with the voices that filled her ears: Scripture, sermons, and the prayers she whispered with eyes open on the trail.

Eight years later, on a July afternoon in the mountains of Granby, Colorado, Jen crossed a personal threshold which she began tracking on a running app almost a decade earlier: 10,000 miles. Her parents and daughters were there to witness it. But this finish line wasn’t about numbers…it was about redemption.

Through joy and pain, injury and recovery, God had pursued her every step. The run had changed, but the Runner’s love never had.