So, I was eating a salad at lunch...
I realize when I embark on adventures I generally choose between 2 paths--the gregarious pack animal or the spartan warrior monk. Naturally, the path chosen depends on the nature of the adventure.
If the adventure is a naturally group oriented adventure, then the natural path is the gregarious pack animal route. "Hey, let's go to Wyoming! YAY!! ADVENTURE!!!" We may adopt alternative personas and back stories and personal side quests and just have a shit ton of fun doing it. "Hey, look! A mountain! Let's climb it!" This is how we take our family trips. This is how we do things.
If the adventure is something more solitary, like a particular project or task or whatever, then I gravitate to the warrior monk route. I go in to a small, dark, solitary place and harden myself against distractions and focus, focus, focus... I also call it "riding the range" or "bringing in the herd". I'll be gone for awhile, but be patient, I'll be back and the trip will be worth it. This is how I ran and rode my bike. This is how I got my MBA. This is how I built my cabin. This is... You get it. I retreat to the cabin and do the thing.
The balancing act comes when it's a particular project that happens in a group setting. A GROUP project is more fun when the entire group is engaged, but my own personal task within that project is a "shut up and let me bear my burden" type of thing.
Now, when you're building a business a balance must be struck. There are people you need to bring in, engage, direct, and collaborate with. Everything can't be a one-man show.
So, too, with joining a training "team". Together we build each other up, hold each other accountable, push and strive toward the common goal. Nobody can lift the weight for me, or run the miles for me, or lose the inches for me, but together, presumably, we can accomplish more than alone.
I'm skeptical. I've never done it that way before. Miles are solitary things that are consumed by one man. Only one pair of feet can fit in those shoes.
Bikes are built with only one seat. Nobody can ride those hours and miles with you.
I don't know how "team fitness" works.
Learning that is today's adventure. Figuring out how that works is today's adventure.
The salad was average.
