Continuing the Trend!

            Continuing the Trend....
       Well, 2010 is coming to an end soon. In 1 and a half days for me to be exact. 


       I am actually happy to say that I have ZERO New Years resolutions. Everything that I could possibly want to make a resolution for, is already in motion, and being executed to the fullest of my ability. 


                 Adversity
      I want to talk about adversity for a moment. I thought of something today as my running partner and I were on the last half of our 3 mile run, and were running into a VERY strong headwind, and were pretty much lost in a cloud of dust the whole way back. I thought to myself, "What if the next 16 weeks of training, we have to run the last half of our runs INTO this some 10 Knots of wind?" That will really suck. Then I thought to myself, "Well what if I train for 16 weeks running INTO the wind and dust, and on race day, I don't have to?" I will be significantly ahead of the game is what... And if I DO have to run into the wind? So what, I have been doing it for the past 16 weeks!
       In terms of day to day living, adversity prepares us to deal with all of the stuff that IS going to happen in life, at some point or another. So better to have to deal with some BS every now and then, and be efficient at dealing with it, rather than be a deer in the headlights when something is sprung on you... 
       With that in mind, next time you have to deal with a shitty situation, try to look at it as "practice"... After all, without the shitty situations we all have to deal with, we wouldn't appreciate times of fortune NEARLY as much.