@thisisfoster Peer pressure comes into play, here. In a healthy church, it's what "all the other women" are doing.
Even if you're attempting the sub-4:00 mile, it's easier knowing someone else has done it.
@wadethomasjr Numbers 13:30-31 But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, โLet us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.โ Then the men who had gone up with him said, โWe are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.โ