Seth DeMoor
Episode 218
3 APR 2023
He has been a professional mountain runner, winning the Pikes Peak Marathon in back-to-back years (2020 and 2021). He also competed for the United States at the World Mountain Running Championships in Argentina in 2019. And he continues to train for road marathons and ultra marathons, with the hopes of qualifying for the 2024 marathon Olympic Trials. Collegiately he had competed for the University of Colorado and helped contribute to National Championships in cross country. After graduating from there he went on to start a Catholic apostolate after graduation called “One Billion Stories,” which he talks about here.
Notable guest quotes:
“I’m a cradle Catholic, baptized in Colorado Springs and received all my sacraments in the Diocese of Colorado Springs.”
“A big part of my journey growing up was attending World Youth Day. I was able to go to three or four World Youth Days, starting with Paris in 1997.”
“For all the youngsters… if you might be a little on the smaller side, it’s okay, God has a sport for you and it just might take you a little while to discover it.”
“Because of those injuries, it allowed me more time to pray, to go to daily Mass, to discover Adoration, and honestly just to figure out and ask the Lord, ‘Why am I getting so many injuries and what’s going on here,’ so it was, as they always say, a blessing in disguise actually, all these running injuries.”
“Pope Benedict XVI said, ‘It falls in particular to young people who have an almost spontaneous affinity for the new means of communication to take on the responsibility for the evangelization of this digital continent’… I read those words and I thought to myself, ‘Ya’ know what… I’m going to get out there in the world and… interview some of the one billion Catholics on earth’.”
“My life was forever changed because of the students and the priests that were willing to share their story with me about the faith and their personal journey.”
“If you watch any major marathon, whether it’s New York City or London, and you watch the elites cross the finish line, most of them – not all of them, but many of them – will make the sign of the cross when they are finishing because it’s so difficult and I think they turn their race into a prayer.”
“The Catholic journey that we’re all on, it’s a marathon, it’s not a sprint, it’s a long-term investment into our spiritual lives whether it’s weekly confession or the rosary or spiritual direction.”
“Through the YouTube channel a lot of people always notice my scapular that’s flying in the wind when I’m out running or I’ll often have rosary beads in my hand as I’m out running.”
“I will actually, before all my big races, I’ll especially write on my wrist with a marker, two or three people I want to basically pray for through the suffering of the race.”
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