"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"-John Greenleaf Whittier

In two ways is the above quote applied to running. This can be examined in a spectrum of the macrocosm to microcosm. Starting with months or even years of training to weeks, clumps of days and even a single day; did you do the work? The next breakdown is about the moment, and is more like an individual domino that collapses either this way or that triggering more dominos each with a choice on how they fall. The choice is of course yours. This is not about “did you do the work”. This is about, in that blistering moment, are/were you running not thinking, because in actions of sheer soulful passion we are reactive to a predisposition and not consumed with thought; we are the moment.