Phase IV Outdoor 11

This is the first day of our 8 week Phase IV outdoor ’11 season. Its just an easy day, we will meet after two miles to do the last two or so together. But it is the beginning of eight weeks of training. I like beginnings, crackling possibilities popping ideas probing the query; what will really happen? What is that quantum theory adage, dwell on the possibilities and collapse on the one. Try telling that to the Patriots after they had their perfect season but lost the Superbowl. “You needed to focus more on the “you winning” possibility.” Upon which you are body speared off the premise. But fundamentally, in most winning versus losing, training talent and interferences equal, the person with better focus gets the win. In competitions with all things being equal, you pretty much find out who has, during that bout, game, match, fight, meet, or run the truest desire. But if winning is the only way to show true desire then the majority of people are out there half assing it for exercise or social reasons. There is something exciting about the work of the next eight weeks coming together, knowing what was desired in some form will come to pass and your achievements are always accessible and forever stored in the past. Pleasure forms itself from knowledge that many days of hard work, like the different ants comprising the greater collective colony, make up this phase, not just a handful of races or time trials. Where as the former statement to the Pats might not be welcome, but none the less true, to say to the Patriots, “You didn’t have enough desire that season” would just be false.