John smokes Peter in the inaugural Ressurection 5K

I may get some angry emails for making light of the resurrection, but I figure everybody who cares about such things has already had time today for serious reflection on the paschal mysteries. Today's lectionary from John would seem to indicate that running is, indeed, a thing:

So Peter and the other disciple [that's John, who has a strange aversion to first-person narrative] went out and came to the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; he bend down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths rolled up in a separate place. Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived first, and he saw and believed.

Those who study scripture know that the tradition is that when a point is really important, it gets stated three different ways. There's a good reason for that. If you tell something once and it's misheard (remember, we're talking oral tradition here, none of these folks had a bible at home), you've given them bad information. If you tell it twice and they mishear once, you've given them conflicting information. If you tell it three times, you've at least given them a preponderance of statements to sort it out. It's basically the ancient equivalent of a checksum bit.

So, it appears that in writing about the most important event in Christianity, John really wanted us all to know that he dusted Peter running to the tomb. John wrote his gospel sometime between AD 85 and 95, so this is basically a 90-year-old giving a race report from his 20's. As the saying goes, the older I get, the better I was.