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"Water always finds its level."

- Jacob

There used to be a time when Jacob was allowed over to watch Michigan football games with me and my pops. Those games would inevitably feature major impact plays, momentum from one team, and bricks tumbling down for the other. It was most noticeable when it was happening not in Michigan's favor. But you know how college football goes: you live and die with every single play and two bad things in a row seems like we'll never see a first down again.

Yet, there was Jacob and his infinite wisdom, "water always finds its level." And when Shea Patterson throws a 60-yard bomb to Donovan Peoples-Jones, Olag would just smile and say, "told you so!"

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A few weeks back Mrs. Tara was talking to me about how she felt like she hadn't been "feeling" the workouts that were coming up; either it was a for quality/practice workout, or one that exposed a weakness or two (or three, in 22.3's case). My response to her was, "I promise I'm not ignoring you... just let's talk about it in two weeks."

Of course, I was cheating because I knew what was coming. But this is something I've experienced years before I had access to the workouts beforehand. A conspicuous string of max effort days or lower intensity workouts would lull me into a false sense of calm, or a brutal string of workouts would make me wonder why the hell I'm doing this, or a 5k and CF Total gets repeated 4 times in a month. Yet I'd always repeat Jacob's mantra and sure enough things would level out.

We went through two weeks of some slower stuff, immediately followed by just about the roughest two-week workout stretch in recent years. Without even looking behind the scenes I know that, at some point, things will level off into the usual level of difficulty. It always does.