THE ROAD
"Montoya could forgive anything of a bull fighter who had aficion, he could forgive attacks of nerves, panic, bad unexplainable actions, all sorts of lapses. For one who had aficion he could forgive anything. At once he forgave me and all my friends. Without ever saying anything they were simply a little something shameful between us, like the spilling open of the horses in bullfighting." -Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises The road is at once all things; a place to sharpen and tone our instinct, to test our will, and in the end to guide us home along its course however winding or direct. Sometimes what happens on the road makes us better and helps us to understand more fully the macro and not the micro of every day life and the training and the living we do in between. Yesterday I was tested and I fell, I won't say that I failed because I learned something. So on Sunday today when the run was a little harder and I was a little more sore and a little les...