So i thought i had a midterm this tuesday and i had planened to study all night for it, but guess what??? It's not till THURSDAY! so i will pursue to ice and watch Dragonball until 11, walk home and go to bed.

Today we had our primary workout and coach gave me a surprise with a new pr in a pace run. He shockingly said that i had to do 40 minutes, which is a 5 minute increase in anything i have ever done. I was little worried about my injuries, becasue the warmup was not so hot and my strides were really bad. After first couple steps though things seem to work out. I felt my hip in some parts of the run, but nothing of my shin that was hurting in the very beginning. We went out REAL slow. The slowest i have ever gone out in a pace run and i think spilting down by 20 secs in the next one kind of shocked my legs and set the tone for my workout. We went 5:41, 5:22, 5:19, 5:22, 5:25, 5:21. Afterwards i cool down rather long, because i had to collect my shirt that i left on the rec loop.

Total: 14.2 miles

a triple post

okay so i got really behind in my log, but no worries everything will be caught up in a moment.

Okay so Friday was our primary workout.
it was a 30 min fartlek of 3 on 2 off and than 4 ks. On thewarmup i was limping pretty badily, but it all smoothed out by the time of our fartlek. it was very windy today, but the fartlek realy didnt feel all too bad. We went out to redoubt and than through country and road and back on campus it was a perfect 30 min. Than we had 3 min of just jogging around and than we went straight into the ks. Gibby did nt tell us how much we had to do, but i was figuring it was goign to be based on how i looked. I actauly didnt do too bad today. i ran 2:52, 2:53, 2:52 and than a 400, in mighty mighty winds. I only did a 400 because my hip was hurting pretty bad, i wish, retrospectively speaking, that i finished it, but it was probably all for the best. Cool down and what not. Totaling to 14.5 miles

Sat:

had our long run, it was nt a very good paced long run. it had lots of stops and just wasnt very fluid from the begining, becasue my shin and calf were really bothering me. I did a total of 2 hours, but i am counting it as 19. It just wasnt a great run, but it's not a big deal. i really need to get on top of both my injuries, before i go home. ohh.. we ran at newport, i hate newport

19 miles

Sunday:

Again 15 mins of the beginning of the run were terrible and i was limping around. Today was my easy day so i took that to heart and ran for about 58 mins. I am counting it at 9 miles. even though only the beginning was probably that slow. It was a nice pleasant run and i rather enjoyed today.

WEEKLY MILEAGE: 92 miles total

Kakapoo!!

At one time, the kakapo population may have reached hundreds of thousands or even millions, all across New Zealand. By 1995, that number had dropped to just 50. Problems first arose when the first human settlers—Māori from Polynesia—arrived around a thousand years ago. Although the Māori killed some kakapos for their food and their skins, a more serious problem was posed by the kiore, or Polynesian Rat they brought with them: it fed on both the kakapo eggs and their young. In the 1840s, an even bigger problem arose. European settlers posed a triple threat: they destroyed much of the kakapo’s habitat, hunted them for meat (and captured many more for museums and zoos), and brought still more animals that preyed on the birds. Within a few decades, the kakapo population was severely depleted and the first conservation attempts were made—though they did little good.

New Zealand’s Department of Conservation initiated a Kakapo Recovery Plan in 1989. All surviving kakapos have been relocated to two small, predator-free islands, and are monitored closely. Work is underway to encourage breeding, protect the birds’ habitat, ensure adequate food supplies, and safeguard the health of the surviving population. So far, the program has enjoyed significant success: as of 2006, the population had increased to 86. They’re still a long way from being self-sustaining, and some people fear that the gene pool is now too small to keep the species viable. But there is at least reason for optimism. Even without flight, the kakapo may yet rise again.

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this morning i woke up and was limbing all around. i could hardly walk, but i had a training room appt. so i went out and got my stim and stretched out. It had really no affect, as i was still limping all around during the day. Thankfully it loosened up a little bit after walking around a lot. I went to the market and got some aleve to reduce inflammation.

before the run i stretched for a good while and things began feeling a little better. Before the day started i didnt think i would be able to run, but i did anyways. I went 10.5 miles for the day, my hip didnt hurt as bad as yesterday, but i could still feel it a little bit. in the begining i def was limping, gibby even made a comment, but things loosened and made it more smooth.

I didnt do core with the team or my stride, because gibby thought i shouldnt becasue of my hip and i totally agreed. It allowed me to get a in a real good stretch.

Cardinal

The heart does not easily give up.

Late fall, berries gone, bare limbs  corkscrew in daylight. I watch him  from the shell of my wing-back chair,  his insistent charge toward glass.  Day into day, the thump and hover,  his own ticker-tape parade of one. Birds have been flying blind into  these windows for years, but this--  a warning, crimson spirit,…

i saw a beautiful cardinal today it was gorgeous.

Today was my MR+, apparently we rolled, it didnt feel like it, but i guess thats good. I went to the training room this morning. I got some advice on stretching and some STIM. Did nothing, as my si joint was worse than ever today on the run. i felt it during the whole thing and half time it seemed like i was limping. I plan on stretching tonight before i go to bed and setting up a regular 4 times a day cycle.

13 miles total

Terrible Day

So today, as i mention in my earlier blog was a jammed packed day. It started great my comparitive politics exam went rather well. I killed all the free response, the mc was a little shaky, but i think i pulled an 8/10. As the day continued, shit got progressively worse. I had very little time to study for my Mythology exam and i got back my dismal english paper. I have never felt so poorly and lowly about a single academic thing in my life. It was just full of critiques and not useful critiques, just bascially telling me i am a fucker. My prof wants me to meet up with and resubmit, which is gracious of him and i definitely did not write a well written paper, but i just feel so dishevled and worried (for w.e. reason) about this paper. I usually pride myself with the albitlity to write rather well, but today was big eye opener to really having to master every paper and spend the adequate time necessary. Hopefully i can figure things out, but we ll see. Oh mythology went horrendously... :(

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15.2 miles today. SWO workout. I have no leg speed. We had 3x800 and some unspecified amoutn of pace segments of 12 mins. I went through for my 800s 2:11, 2:10, 2:11. I was on the back end for all of them. I dont really understand why i am so slow when it comes to intervals. My miles were terrible and now these 800s were awful. I think it's my mind, but i cant really bank on that. Anywyas, i did my pace segments on teh track. They went alright, i was still getting dusted by a couple of people that i rather be closer to, but i was reeling and gaining on my last couple spilts. I made it to the 3rd one with everyone and coach split us into 8 min and the 3 AA did 12 mins. My hip hurt durign the entire day and i am hoping it s nothing too serious, but i spent till 8:20 in the track working on my entire lower body with stretching. Now i am icing and just hoping to recover a little better.

Splits for the pace segments were:

12min- 2.38, 2.37, 2:38, 2:36,

12min-2:34, 2:36 2:36 2:38

8min- 2:29, 2:29, 2:28

New problem

So tonight i am kind of stressing, i have two midterms, but i am for some odd reason really nervous for my comparative politics exam. It shouldn't be too hard, but i just feel that i do not know any of the information, i am not nearly as disheveled about my mythology exam, as i believe i know many of the things, but probably have the same amount of mastery in both class (little). Hopefully all will go well, i did all the readings for my politics class, and ironically have not done many for my myths class. I am thinking about logging more hours than i normally do for this politics test, to hopefully allow for a smoother test, but we shall see i have my doubts.

Todays run was a normal mr run. JG came up to me asking me to run and i was happy to join him. Thomas and John Muller also accompanied us and we went off to the trails in the storming rain. The run itself was not bad, but i just was not in the mood to run, it was raining and i had not been having the most pleasant of days (due primarily to the weather outside). Jon and i ended up finishing 11.5 miles together. I did two strides afterwards, but my hip and groin area were not feeling to hot, so i just stopped there instead of doing 4. Afterwards we did core, which my shin surprisingly felt really good in (im guessing my sleeve compression really helped that).

During my run, my shin hurt for about the first 10 minutes and than it mainly subsided. Awkwardly my hip would feel out whack for the rest of the run, probably due to an improper compensation for my shin which has irritated that as well.

New Trainer

So this is for Sunday:

Had our long run and what a terrible run it was. Gibby allowed us to sleep in for a bit longer than usual. So i woke up pretty refreshed and ready to go. For some reason i was lagging around the locker room not really getting ready,e ven though i had arrived there 20 minutes early. This proved to be a terrible mistake. We departed for York River State Park, where we normally do our long runs. I rode with Ben, Jon G., Blitzer, and John M. As i got there and starting taking off my warmups, i realized that i had forgotten my running shoes and only had my nike air stabs! I immediately began yelling profane words, because the park was way to far away from campus to legitimately think anybody would drive back. Patterson noticed first and thoguht i shouldnt run, but gibby thought it would be alright, as long as i stayed on soft surfaces, to run in my worn out, beat up stabs.

This happned to be one of the most painful experiences. My shins were dying for the first 20 minutes of the run and i was getting a little woriried, but aht eventually smoothed out. I began constantly tripping and nearly collapsing on the trails, as i was not use to the extra wegiht that was burdoning my legs. After John M. and left the group we were running with, everything began falling apart. My feet were aching and felt that i had a 1,000 blisters making the last 20 minutes of my run a living hell. I began crawling and just praying for it to be over. Eventually i got through it. This possibly was the worst 16 miles i have ever run.

Total miles this week- 80 in 6 days

Third workout :(

Since i was unable to race this weekend, i had to do 3 workouts :(. I thought before i found out what the workout that it was going to have the equal weight of the SWO that we did before, but instead we did a fartlek of 1-2-3-4-5-5-4-3-2-1 with equal rest totalling up to 60 minutes.

In the warmup i felt terrible and my shin was kind of hurting (oh i got my calf sleeve so this was the first tim ei wore during a run. so intailly i thought it was goign to be a terrible workout. Thankfully it wasnt, we started a little slow and just slowly moved and progressing into the workout. I felt really smooth and good. I lost a little focus ont he back end 4-3, due to just being alone, but i still got quality work in those intervals. Afterwards, i felt terrible due to dehydration, but the kind workers of the WISC let me enter and get some water.

My running totaled to be 17 miles for the day, so glad to be done.

... my shin did not feel very good afterward, starting to get seriously worried, but not much to be done now. I think i am going to wear my sleeve fort he whole day today and see how it feels without during the night and go from there.

Gotta Catch Em All

This is for Thursday, had my Mr+ run. I ran 13 miles mainly with Pat, he was flying, but it felt good to press a run for once in a while. So it was actually fairly pleasant and relaxing. The tech racers are off tom., i am not racing due to tech not allowing unattached runners to race :(. Kinda bummer, becasue i ve been feeling pretty good actaully, but everything happens for a reason. So now i have a third workout on Sat. I think i got through mileage that i do not have to run on friday, because Gibby is only having me do 80 this week. Hopefully this will sure up my shin a little bit more.

For Friday, off, but i am going to off and on ice for about 3 hours total and get a really good stretch in. Hopefully i ll hack away on my homework that is piling up enormously around me.

An update on my life-- Thomas and Baker are having a Pokemon battle. I recently won on ebay a gameboy sp, yes it has a charger and a backlight!. It was an intense duel between two other people and i won it on literally the last second (yes i felt very accomplished). Anyways, the deal, is who can beat the game first. We started today (thurs) and i ve been progressign very throughly, i wont give away anythign untill the end, cuz we swore not to talk about it. But let's just say im confident.

<3

SWO

Had a secondary workout today. 10 minute brisk run, at a brisk pace. than we broke it down on the track with 3xks (2:51, 2:49, 2:51) or soemthing like that. The ks were fine, the last one hurt a little bit, and i fell of pence a little bit, but that was more mental, as i am terrible at working together in workouts, but it s somethign i got to work on.

Total mileage: 10.4 miles

miscellaneous

The title says it all, i am going to talk about some things that have happened to me today, all random, none having to do with the other (well i do not know for sure, because i have not begun to think about what i am going to write upon)

1.So today i had to turn in my first english paper. apparently my teacher is a big stickler on grading his papers, so im a little on edge on how well i am going to do. On top of that, i got one of my friends to edit it and printed it and while i was going to hand it in, the first thing i saw was a huge grammatical mistake. So i still turn it in and i am just wondering what i should do. So than i got to thinking, maybe i turned in my rough draft instead of my final paper? So i went to him after class and told him my predicament and he gave me a grace period to get it into his box. (I still have not turned it in, but i do not think i need it into him by tonight, due to him leaving town, but i have it printed out and ready to go if i end up not being lazy).

2. If you are a regular reader to the "The Monotony" you will already know i have been having some shin problems of late. I recently purchased a calf sleeve to help it out. I am hoping that all it is, is shin splints and this calf should be affective in helping me rid this injury. If it is indeed bone, well i ll just look like a douche running around campus with it on :).

3. I have found a new favorite place to study and do work. Although I love my Andrews Hall, it's just too crowded to many people asking to use the room or having meetings in there that it just aint working. So there's this room that is usually deserted in teh library full of computers, because its a special computer room where only "CGA users only." Well being the explorer that i am, i went through the yellow and tape and found a home. Not only do i look really cool, as people see me in the "special room" with transparent glass windows, i also get my work done.
A special feature to this room is that their is two computer screens for one server, allowing me to put different documents on different screens, making typing and gathering information a cinch.

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My run today was nothing special! But it was not bad, which is always delightful. Tomorrow will be bad, as i have a workout! Anyways i ran 10 miles with a good group of guys, hit up the new trails, conversations were at an all time high and spirits seemed lifted. i really thought today would be miserable as there was a ton of wind swirling about Williamsburg, but the trees protected myself and my companions. I owe my pleasant mood to the trees! After my tenner, i did 5 strides, felt viciously slow (oxymoron, Prof. Potkay would be proud). Than did an abbreviated set of drills (very chilly), and than did an abbreviated core routine (skipping supermans, as my back was ailing me).

I did not ice today, i meant to get some from the caf, but John rushed me out and i forgot. I cant say it was felt better today, but oh well. I am trying to keep my mind off of it, but something is telling me it's rather serious. I may take a short (hopefully) visit to the training room tomorrow or the next day.

Oh got my ambien so finally my sleep will be sufficient!
<3

pace run

So i spent the past 3 hours writing a paper for my English class and i completely sapped of energy. So i am going to be to straight to the point.

Today Gibby tripped us all up and angered a ton of people, cough lewis cough. He was not there to adminster the workout, as his wife/athlete got sick in Spokane. So Ryan told us the odd news. We were to do all of our pace run on the track. Most people thought this was a joke, but after we got back from our warmup, sadly he was not joking. It actaully was not that bad, but probably because i only had a 30 minute pace run.

The workout went fairly well, i had much smoother form today and i went 5:19, 16, 12, 08, 08, 08. We had a fairly big pack and we all just used each other and switch the lead on the track. Hopefully this is a good sign that my paitience is paying off.

Than we did a mile easy on the track, followed by: 400 (60), 300 (44), 200 (28), 100 (12.9). Gibby gave us set goal times to hit and i hit them, man i feel slow though

After my cooldown, i stretched a good bit and iced. Max and i went to the house and we grilled yummy to the tummy burgers and hot dogs. I am now craving one right now, ughh, maybe i ll have some trail mix.

My shin hurt but not terrible, but i may try to get calf sleeves to help with my shin splints (hopefully that is all it is), we will see.

Total miles: 14 miles

The Power of Cleaning

Man i cannot tell you how awesome i feel after cleaning and organizing. Now if i was force to or someone told me to it would not have the same affect. I have to be in the mood and once in it, i deliberately take my time, making a conscious effort to think of the appropriate places things you go in my overcrowded room. It's quite relaxing allows you to take your mind off things and just focus on a task. I don't know if this is the same way about other people but it definitely appeals to me. I spent 2 and a half hours just cleaning my room today. Setting up my new Lucky Bamboo, putting a clever way to incorporate my patron bottle with my clever rose, and displaying my new favor tie drink's (Sweeet Leaf iced tea) bottle for some added publicity. Also if you have a lot of work to do, it just makes you feel accomplished and throws you into the mood of knocking out more work. It's a progression from easy to work to hard. This is the medium, going through the monotony (clever i know) and having to write a dumb entry so that i can log my runs. So anyways i am not going to go to deep about the powers of cleaning, but it's real. One should try it, if your feeling out of wack.

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Woke up around 10:20 and ran with Maxwell at 11, as plannned the day before. he ran 10 miles, while i ran 9.7 miles (that one was for you max!):

Max does not see the point of going into decimals, but im all about it. Maybe it's to be different, maybe its to be precise (probably not), but i just feel the necessity to write the decimals. I am going to start making my splits this way, apparently a teammate from the past use to do that, but i ll be making them up.

It was a relaxing easy paced run. We just went to New trails and did some bike trails and back to the track.

Total Week Mileage: 95.5 miles (Most Ever :O)

Long Run

Feeling rather tired, so i am going going to do my entry.

Long run of 19 miles. Ran with a rather large group (had a pretty good meal beforehand), ran at a fair pace for most of it. Felt like i was out there for much longer than just shy of 2 hours, but oh well it's done.

Stretched and iced, poor sleep the night before.

Mother and Father visited me today, we went to La Tolteca, which was delightful as always (to see them). Now i am going to waste away the rest of the day, pretending to do homework and hopefully finishing my paper on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Very, very Doubtful.

Double!

I woke up this morning rather early, because i had to double this morning. I absolutely despise doubling and on top of that i got terrible sleep. Anyways, i woke up around 8:20, because Max and i said that we would meet at 9. I got there and waited for a bit, because Max was arriving late. We went extraordinarily slow, but it still was not a bad run. After my run however my left leg's ankle on the outside was in like a ton of pain. it was a really odd spot to have discomfort. We ran 4.8 miles, afterwards i stretched and iced both, my shins (they hurt pretty badly during the whole run) and my ankle. The weird thing was i felt no discomfort in my shin during the day after my ice, which was definitely a good sign.

My afternoon run went very well. I started rolling, as i ran by myself and had my Ipod with me. Everything felt great, my shin hurt very minimally and my ankle was bothering me, but not enough to keep me off. I decided to go to out to New trails. I have never done all of new trails by myself and as i was running i was confident i could remember the way. I remember thinking today is the day i am going to actually do them and not get lost. So that was my biggest accomplishment of the day/ maybe week. I ran 10.2 miles and really just felt strong, hopefully these are building blocks, for my debut of my season at Tech next weekend, but we ll see things seem to change in drastic proportions of late.

Total: 15 miles

Scams

as many of you know i participate rather vigorously in "School of Wizardry." Well, i was trying to make a significant move in my standing so i was perusing around the site looking for a deals that i would do for an significant boosts. There are a bunch of little bitch ones that are legitimately free with no drawbacks and there are other ones that you have to pay for, as well as ones where you have to sign up give your credit card information but it's free trial until "x" numbers of days are done and than you start paying a monthly rate. So i found two of these "big boost deals" one was Identity Guard for 30 days and Gamefly for 10 days. So i signed up no trouble there, however i first signed up for gamefly and after waiting for about an hour, i still had not gotten my boost. So i looked up the deal and i saw that it could take a day or two, so i decided to sign up for Identity Guard, as well. After giving away my SSN :/ and credit card information i received immediately my boost (Yes i am this "addicted" to reaching the top haha). Well i was telling some teammates about it, basically just joking around how lame i was being with this game and they were of course disgusted with me, but also a little worried that i would get scammed.

Later that night, i went onto my bank's website to see my balance and make sure everything was okay and sure enough, Gamefly stole 40 dollars! and Identity Guard took a dollar. This shocked me and i immediately called up both sites, Gamefly was closed for the night, but i did get in touch with Identity Guard and immediately canceled. they kept asking why i was cancelling and what not. I did not want to say i was using them for a facebook harry potter game, so i blamed it on my parents saying that i acted rashly and without my parent's consent. The lady was like well you have not even gotten your credit report and i was just like sorry they want me to cancel it no matter what. "But you just started today?" "Look i really cant do it, so i would appreciate it if we could get on with this!" (yea i had to use some sass, but the lady was not getting it). So i got my dollar back there, after debating with this woman for 10 minutes.

The next day i saw that i could cancel my gamefly subscription online, but i had not received my boost yet for it so i decided to wait hahahaha. (To my defense i was pretty confident no matter what i would get my money back, since these were well acclaimed businesses and not shady enterprises), but however it was still being reckless. As my day progressed i received my boost in turn immediately cancelled and got my guap back. "Today was a good day." It was definitely worth the debacle and i have not learned my mistake yet, be prepared for me to loose 200 dollars through this game, but i will be in the top 100 by the end of the month if i keep it up!

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Actually woke up this morning and got my breakfast of an omelet and danish. Did you know that there is two ways to spell omelet, omelette? Weird. Well i am not going to go through my day, since i actually talked about something for once.

SWO (Secondary Workout) actually went fairly well. I had a 30 minute pace run and we went to the Rec Loop. So when we started, i started rather conservatively for the first half mile, but than we started to pick it up. I was not feeling great, but felt powerful (not smooth, but i definitely had my legs under me). Grey was out like a bat, as usual, but Pence went somewhat with him which is out of characteristic followed by Sagar and my group, of Adley and Pete. My splits were 5:17, 5:21 (very windy), 5:13, 5:11, 5:04. Everyone but Jon Grey and I stayed on the rec loop, as people went elsewhere since no coach was supervising the workout.

I ended very strongly and felt good, my arms are still a little out of control, but im hoping it's all a work in progress. Afterward i had to use the facilities extended my cool down to 30 minutes, as i was in a awkward spot to get to the bathroom and than again on the farthest point of the rec loop to cool down.

Once i was back at the track, i recovered with a mix of cliff bar and endurox. I stretched a good bit and iced afterward. Everything felt pretty good cept for my shin, which was little shaky. My calf actually felt good and i might have worked that problem out, but my shin is still hurting a tad and i am just hoping it's nothing having to do with the bone and can be fix with the right steps to recovery.

Total mileage: 14 miles

<3

So i tried getting a lot of sleep yesterday so i came back to the room and went to bed rather early. however i was not able to sleep and although i was tired could not fall asleep. This really irratates me, becaue i could be doing my homework that i forgone for sleep, but instead im just laying in bed daydreaming untill 3 o clock in the morning. finally i fell asleep awaking hear and there, but at 9 i wanted to get out of bed and get breakfast (you know speed up that metabolism haha), but i was too tired so i slept until 10:30.

As 10:30 rolled by i got up and got ready for class, apparently there was a huge snowstorm being unleashed on williamsburg so i lingered in my room to see if it would get canceled. I did not actualy think it would, but than i heard the screams and yells of my hallmates as school had jsut been canceled! Best news i had heard all week! This started my relaxed and unproductie day. I chatted with some peeps on ichat. Later i got some grub at the caf i ate mainly chicken pot pie. after that i went to gibby's with Zach and Dan to get my shoes. Of course he was not there and had not seperated the shoe order yet. so when he got there he made us do his dirty work. I got 3 new pairs of shoes, which was great as my shoes were really getting worn down due to all the mileage that was accumulating. this season i am rolling with defyance 3 in width 2E.

After that i just chilled in the room, shooting the breeze, until practice time. Although we had school cancelled the roads were not bad and it seem rather unneccassary but i am not one to complain. So the run actualy was not going to be to bad. I ended up running with Jon Grey (17th in the nation in CC nats, which warrants AA status) for the second day in a row. Today was actually probably the best run i have had in a long time. It was just so pleasant, i am finally feeling comfortable, although my shin hurt at times, i did not really have a bother from injury. We went up fit than connected to 4x4 to new trails and back for a 11.3 mile run. Afterwards i stretched out and made sure to do a lot of work on my right calf.

The caf was nothing special, i had meatloaf and veggies. Not a very good blend, but better than nothing i guess.

Finally a Good Day

I was just poking and perusing around the web and i have always wondered how metabolism slows and what to do to help rev it up and give it a kick. so i came across a pretty helpful article that was 6 pages long, being the busy man that i am, i do not have time for 6 pages, but it had a bolded outline that provided the essentials and if one had any questions on the matter, they can simply read that part. The article is found at http://www.redbookmag.com/health-wellness/losing-weight/speed-metabolism-yl but they give the basic guidelines in 12 step manner but the ones that i am trying to pay attention to are:

1. Eat Breakfast- i never eat breakfast, so i am going to try and wake up a bit earlier and eat.
2. Nibble all day- i used to do this all the time when i was at home. I think i am going to try this more, get some more fruits (take from the caf) and buy some trailmix bags... things will be a lot easier once i get off campus next year.
3. Drink Milk- in the past i hated milk and would never drink it, but one glass wont hurt
4. Relax- really just takes some things easier and not worry so much about running
5. Vitamin B-12- hopefully over the weekend i can get some.
6. Not eating after 6 pm.- I usually do this and most of my dinners are past 6, but stop eating meals after dinner

Hahah i am not worried about getting fat or anything, but i do think that i have slowed my metabolism due to eating little in the summer time due to laziness. So this is i guess a much healthier way to live, so i will try it for the meantime.

Yesterday night Zach and i hung out for a little, something abnormal due to his new sleeping patterns and me always doing homework. So we went to bed at around 12:10 and i feel asleep around 12.30. i finally got a pretty good night sleep and woke up aroudn 10:30. After that i lid around for a while and attempted to get some last minute homework done. I finally got up to go get some food, i was not feeling to hungry so i ate light (spaghetti and panini). the pasta was actually really good today i thought, not it's usual water filled bowl. After that i went to classes, i really wasnt in the mood for applying myself, so i took notes, but just was not as attentive as usual. I got a hundo on my enlgish quiz today, so taht was exciting :).

I got to the track and stretched out my calf, my it band feels almost a hundred percent healed (knock on wood). Jon Grey came up to me asking how much i had to go for today, because the racers at liberty did not have to go as far. So him and i went out together and although my calf was tight and my shin hurt occasionally (it did not completely lock up which was great!). The run was actaully rather enjoyable, the pace was fine nothing surprising we started rolling on the way back a little and i actually felt responsive and not exhausted which was a great sign and a huge plus haha. Once I got back from my run (jon had to go 2 extra miles), we did core and got fit. After core i made sure to take my time and really get in a good stretch and ice.

Afterwards Harry and i headed to the caf and i got again sphagetti and meatballs, a panini sandwich, bowl of cereal, broccoli, and a hamburger.

Total: 14 miles

Updating everyone on my school of wizardy rank i am 4,401! oh baby i know! i really stepped up my game, i figured out how everyone got so far ahead, they did the ads that give you a huge boost. So instead of paying i signed up for nextflix for 2 weeks haha. I ended up catching up on californication and watching gattaca for my freshman seminar. Californication is a great show, when i get time i will tell all about it. The reason i bring it up is today is the day that i canceled my subscription :(. Netflix is a pretty good deal, i may try to actually get it, because it seems to be worth it.

Today i woke up at 9 am to take the recruit to eat breakfast and than i had to take him to gibby's office. Gibby of course was late, as he had some IT problems, so i had to stay a little bit longer and entertain the mother. Our recruit seemed like a nice enough kid, he was no stew shoemaker, but seemed like a decent kid. Than i went to macroeconomics where instead of listening to the lecture (which i should ve of done), i did an extra credit essay about the transformation of players in the nfl. I thought the essay was due today, but as i went to turn it in it was not even due.

Practice today was anything but good, pretty much a disaster. as i warmed up my calf tightened up and felt that my calf was going to explode. i had to stop and stretch for a little bit and ran the last 12 minutes of my warmup by myself. As i got back i foudn out the run was not goign to be a pace run but miles on the track. Meaning it was a primary instead of a secondary. Gibby told us that we would do 6-8. So i started conservative but things just regressed as the workout progressed. I ran 5:00, felt pretty good, than 2nd mile ran 5:03 thought i had another lap, not that that was big deal, than my 3rd was 5:07. I honestly have never done soo badly in a mile workout, since in high school i would average around 4.45. Gibby went to talk to me and was trying to figure out what was wrong w/ me. he told me to run the 800 wiht the group take the 3rd lap offa dn than get back in it for my last lap. I did this it was jut like something had clicked and i ended up running 4:43 (as i did not end up taking the 1200 off). My last mile was a 1200 at 3:48, i could ve kept it, but i just bagged it.

I ended up getting 12.5 miles, as me John and Adley ran together for our cooldown at the end.

I am getting pretty worried about my fitness, but am just trying to be patient. things are just not clicking and i am going backwards. I just realized it as i wrote my times down that like in high school i was running much faster. This kind of sucks, but i ll try not to think of it and really get into my training. Hopefully this week will be good and than next week my primary hopefuly will be solid.

Thursday: Wake up in the morning feeling real shitty. got my glasses-im out the door- Yea so i woke up feeling god awful. I couldnt stop blowing my nose and my head hurt. So i visited gibby for my meeting got my mileage guide. I may redshirt indoors, due to just coming back and really not feeling like my usual self. I am hitting 90 for my highest mileage of the year, i think 4 or 5 times. I will be doing a range of different events from the mile to the 10k. My main focus is to qualify for IC4A in the 5k or the 10k. I believe gibby is wanting me to really get in gear for the 5k, becasue apparently that shows the most potential.

After my meeting, i went to the doctors at the William and Mary Student Health Center. They diagnosed me with a sinus infection and gave me a prescription for a Z pack and some mucinex. So good ole Dirty Lew took me to Walgreens and we both picked up our Z pack (he also had a sinus infection).

I ended up practicing and we had of course a workout. The workout was a 35 min fartlek (3 on 2 off) and 2xmile. My fartlek went rather well, as i was in a pretty big pack. I fell off the front leaders of the pack of Pence and Skeet on the last one, which did not bother me very much due to sickness and i felt that i was still consistent. As we got on the track I offcially blew up my workout. I ran 4:41 and 4:47 for my two miles, i didnt feel too hot and my calves were cramping, but still i was very disappointed and just feel miserable as nothing has been very easy for me this indoor.

total mile:16.9 miles

Friday:

Today was a pretty laxed day, i still felt terrible. i am hoping my meds will begin to work, but it feels like they may have misdiagnosed it (crossing my fingers hoping not). I did not go to class for the second day in a row, whihc kind of bothers me, because i really have been trying to stay on top of my work. But hopefully over the weekend i ll get everything together and not be too far behind.

As we started our run it was raining and i just did not feel like yogging around. I ran 7 miles officially, pretty terrible run, felt exhausted and just mentally i have not been there, but i ll get on top of things once this sickness i get over it.

Sat:

Woke up and i felt much better! Than 30 minutes later felt awful, so i am really worrying whether it is not a sinus infection as my antibiotics are not seeming to work, but hopefully everything works out.

Today gibby wanted the long run to be today and so i went out to the Wisk with colin, harry, and lewis. it was a very comfortable run, probably aroudn 6:30 pace. It was very very snowy so we kind of just enjoyed the moment. I felt pretty bad sickness wise but fitness felt fine but that might be because it was at a leisurely pace. Ending with 18 miles

Sunday :

Off, Super Bowl weekend!

Total mileage for the week: 81.6 miles in 6 days

dimness

So i was talking to some unknown person today and they told me this story about this girl and guy that liked each other and i thought it was worth telling (maybe this girl is one of my friends, maybe not).

Moving onward, so these two have been talking for some time now, but have no official term to their relationship so i will not call them out (but you know who you are). Through texting they were just chatting it up, nothing out of the ordinary, and the dude was telling her that some girl was coming onto him and that he was a little weirded out. discussing this the guy made a joke, saying eh i think i might like her and she seems more fun and easier to deal with so im ditching you and going for her. Being a dimwit she believed him and as he continued to joke with her, the whole got deeper and deeper without him even knowing anything was wrong. He eventually said good night, not thinking anything was wrong at all. The next morning the girl was being very rude and unpleasant, so naturally he called her out on it. And she replied, "Well I am just a little upset with everything that went done yesterday." The dude thought to himself, what the hell happened yesterday, thus asking the same question to her. hahaha she replied, "are you being serious?" "Yes, what happened," said he. "you told me that you liked someone else, but still wanted to be friends," said the girl. my friend instantaneously blew up and started laughing hysterically (where i hear the story). And has to do a good 5 minutes of reassuring her that he was joking and in no way was that big of an ass or had any feelings for this other girl.

the moral of the story is that guys be sure the less subject they talk to know they are kidding and girls to maybe raise their voice and speak up if they think something is abnormal or messed up.

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Morning: Woke up at 7 am to go run with John at 8:30, actually for the first time had a little breakfast (orange and banana). My it band felt rather tight and sort of worried me, as i was trying to stretch it out before my run. I went a total of 9 miles, John only had to do 5 so we did an out and back to the parkway and than i continued my run with an out and back on Richmond. It was not a very pleasant run, in fact it was miserable, but it got done at least. Once i got back i stretched and iced. My it band was still feeling a bit shaky and was tender to the touch of the outside region of my knee.

Afternoon: My leg had loosened up and actually did feel to bad, but as i finished my run and sat around it got really tight and again hurt to the touch, it's beginning to worry me a tad, even though it doenst actually hurt to run. I ran 7.5 (i accidentally ran too much miles for today :/) Kind of upsetting, but whats done is done. I got back got a good stretch did core and iced for 15 mins. I will stretch before i go to bed and hopefully things will loosen up. I am starting to really feel that i am coming down with a cold, as i had felt the symptoms the past couple of days, but not till today had it lasted the whole day, usually just in the morning.

Total mileage today: 16.5 miles

Long day..

I hope to get a good night sleep that i did not get yesterday as i lay awake for hours until finally the Lord granted me tiredness at 3 am. So i am goign to avidly try to finish my homework by 11 o clock tonight (i am keeping my fingers crossed :).

I did not have my meeting with Gibby due to a stomach flu that he was suffering from. Not that big of deal, nothing i really need to know from him that is too pressing at this time. I wish i had known a little earlier, because i would ve been able to get about 10 hours of sleep instead of just a measly 7. But thanks to my brilliant schedule i was still able to get enough to run through the day and finish strong on my workout.

I was reading a book today and i came across a great quote that kind of summarizes the ideas that we have today on scientific enhancing of people. "When science moves faster than moral understanding, as it does today, men and women struggle to articulate their unease." -Sandel... i think this encompasses the uneasyness of science and enhancing and altering humans that people experience today. People automactically say that it is unethical and immoral to predetermine others without giving them a choic and this may be so (personally i agree), but i think a large part of these feelings comes from the aspect that it is nothing we are familair with and completlely understand. So instead of fully thinking why they think it's weird or different, they just conclude that it's not moral. So when thinking that enhancement, cloning, and genetic engineering pose a threat to human digintiy (whihc i believe is correct), but you must say how they diminish humanity, instead of just stating it. People become too simple minded like that it's already a formulated idea based on the norm to just dismiss it, when in reality maybe there is some moments where this could be helpful... i dunno i am kinda rambling i know. Maybe later i ll give a follow up after i finish and acutally have time on my hands. just food for thought

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wow was i dreading this workout today, it was soo chilly as i stepped outside. it made me just really not want to do anything. So i became nervous, but for all weird reasons, primarily because i am a girl when it comes to the cold. As 3:40 rolled by and the coaching staff was of course unpunctual we just sat there and waited. Ryan showed up, barring the news that our head honcho was out for the count today, with the same sickness that ailed him previously cancelling our meeting.

Ryan brought some wierd and at the time seemed like terrible news, he told us that we were warming up to the top of "Retard" which is a hill on our course that we normally go to for intervals during cross season. We ended up doing a pace run. Gibby/ryan upped my pace run length to 35 min (i believe tieing my longest ever). They set up a make shift course around the Mental Asylum. It was about .9 miles, or exactly who knows. with a lil bit of everything, including all roads and no soft surfaces. On the warm up my it band was bothering me a little but progressively got better, but due to the pounding on the roads my shin began to act up, but not enough to make a fuss about.

My spilts were progressively better, due to my watch being burried in teh snow i had to use thomas baker's watch so i dont have my spilts but i was happy that they went down. We pretty much had a big pack of that had its breakaways, but the "peloton" eventually swallowed up the breakaway and we ended in a big group of (pence, asaro, woodward, muller, and tyson) with varying lengths in time.

I ended up getting 13.2 miles out of today, tomorrow we have to do a double and were working out on thursday.

The Mondays

Like always got to much homework to make a real effort on this blog post.

so i ll jsut get to the chase and talk about my run. Today Gibby told me that i am running 80 in 6 days this week, meaning that a good 10 miles should suffice. I ended up rolling with max, skeet, tyson, burke, and BJ. We had to be creative for our run today, due to all the snow and slosh preventing us from our usual trails, so we headed out to the P-Head run (President's heads). I had previously never done this run and it was an out and back of about 9.5 miles. It was all on roads, which kind of scared me due to my calves and it band, but nevertheless i went with them.

It was not a bad run at all, i was soaked by the end of it due to the prick drivers that drove uber close to us and spalshed us with ice cold water or slush. When we reached the president's heads it was everything i had imagined and maybe more. we took a little break to view and reminisce and we were on our way back, with occasional snowballs thrown by BJ.

My shins felt great, my calves did not lock up once, which was definitely a success. I could still feel my it band, but that's a given at this point. We did core after and i stretched and iced.

One positive for the day Gibby said i was not racing at CNU this weekend, which is a dream come true as i have no aspirations in any race there. :).. if i have anytime later, which is unlikely i will update this post and give u something ohter than my running log.

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Week Done

Check out the vampire squid.. its an intense looking specimen. That has a pocket of bacteria on each tentacle provides a glowing "eye" using it as a defense mechanism. It's actually pretty cool looking. I saw it on the discovery channel. I am not really going to provide more than this on this post, due to my hellish state and the amount of homework i have today.

CAVES ARE SCARY.
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Sorry I missed a post, Daniel and I had to entertain a recruit, plus with the massive amounts of snow it was extra difficult to get back to my dorm, as i slept at good ole Daniel's room, as John was MIA.

Saturday: It was snowing cats and dogs, out there. I think we got about 8 inches, so me being a little girl and all, i decided to go to the rec with Zach Gates. I ran 4 miles at a leisurely pace, sinc eit was my easy day. My it band was really not feeling good, probably due to neglecting the powers of ice the night before. So overall it was a terrible ordeal, but I got in a great stretch and head over to the Gates house and ice cupped my it band.

Sunday: Possibly the toughest and gruesome run i have been through. Words cannot describe the amount of discomfort and the miserableness that I was going through in my 18.5 mile run. It started off with my calves just really tight and felt that i had a vice on them, not allowing any tension to reside from my shin/calf area. Finally my muscles tightness reseeded allowing my stride to open up. But by that point my body was already exhausted, my legs were heavy and sore, my hip flexors, burned as each time my foot placed against the unstable slush allowing them to never be completely stable. By the end of the run our group was really feeling it, looking back it was quite humorous we hit a hill and everyone just seem to drop off haha. I have never felt so happy when i ended my run, just sitting in exhaustion in the locker room in a more fetal position than anything. Afterwards it was even a struggle to walk, all of us could read each others mind, about how happy we were that we were finally done haha.

Week Mileage: 85.7 miles

The Third Coming??

Being a musical entrepreneur, i was trying to find a new rapper to listen to. I was having some tough times though, I already pretty much have a un-crackable list, which full of talent. My entourage is Wale, Wiz Khalifa, Charles Hamilton, Phil Ade, Eminem, Jay Z, and Lupe. But i felt like i needed one more. So i was listening and listening, but all i could find was just plain rap, none of it made sense, only about sex, nothing flowed. That's the problem with "hip" rap now a days, it's all just to sound nice with nothing behind it. I was pretty much about to quit, till i stumbled on this kid from Sterling, Virginia. He just started out, but he is proudly repping the DMV. He proudly gives shout out to, I am assuming his homie, named Josh Hardin. I do not know if this kid is in the Game as well, but he surely has influenced maybe the Third Coming of rap talent. He doesnt even have a graduating class, he's in his own class. Wale has called him maybe the freshest rapper he's heard since Biggie himself. I wont be surprised if he runs away with the Best New Artist this year.

All of you are probably wondering who throws down this much heat? Well i ll wait no longer, his name is P-WIL$. If his album which is dropping this April is as nice as his first two singles, he ll be reigning in the $$$ that is foreshadowed in his name.

Not only does he have metaphors that just make you shiver, he talks about real shit, you can hear the pain in his voice, as he spits about his life. Just check him out, i promise he wont disappointed, i heard he's signed with Sony. Also most rappers are "cocky," but this kid constantly says how bad he is, it just aint show. Check out youtube, you'll be hooked or find him on facebook "patrick wilson."

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Today, we had a workout, all day i was dreading it, not because i was nervous for the workout but because how cold it was. Today it reached around 33 degrees while we were running. I am the biggest baby when it comes to the cold. I much rather it be hot than cold :/. So finally the time came to get my workout going, so we ran 20 mins to Redoubt Park and Gibby laid us with a surprisingly long workout of a fartlek of 5 mins on 3 mins off x 3 and 4 mins on and 2 mins off and to reach the track in 45 mins (giving us 3 mins of extra rest). Being Gibby, he did not tell us the next part of the workout. As i was running, I followed Burke for most of it. I actually felt pretty good, I stayed in my own zone and my legs were hurting which was good. Although I did not stick with Burke (if i tried i would ve gone over my zone) the whole way, I stayed within for a while and than branched off. I do not know any spilts due to no mile markers, but it wasnt that bad, definitely working.

After that we got our spikes on and ran 3 1,000s (2:50, 2:51, 2:51). I felt like i could definitely open up a little more, but again i just wanted to be consistent with my paces. After that we cool down with a 23 min run, so my total for today was 17 miles.

My it band held up pretty well, bu ti did not get to ice :(, but i ll run to the track tomorow to make sure i take care of it for a while tomorrow and before i go to bed i ll give everything a good stretch. Something that kind of was cool, was that Gibby said that I may be put in the 10k this year, which would be pretty sweet, since i think i would rather do the the 10k rather than the 5k.

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The Perfect Training Partner

As I have been at william and mary, i have noticed, people tend to liek to run with the same people a lot. As i was feeling everything out the first couple weeks, trying to figure out the nuances and tendencies of my teammates. i developed a pretty special bong with a certain runner. How did we do this?? Well not only where we incoming freshman, we had very similar mileage and happened to be in the same areas in our workouts. So we continuously ran together, including on Saturdays when we dont have official practice and go for runs on our own. We sit up all night texting when we would go for a run, or we would usually be together on Friday Nights, only was his roommate more inseparable than we were ;). We pretty much wouldnt leave the locker room without first figuring out how much we were going to do and who we wanted to run with. We got so comfortable with each other that on our runs by ourselves we didnt have to talk, it was just perfect harmony running together, like we were meant to be haha. Going into the middle of the xc season, one of us got sort of injured and things just went haywire. The normalcy of our runs had vanished. Every time without fail, I looked to my left to find him, but than i remembered he was lower in mileage now. We could look into each others faces and just see the dejection we both had. Now things are beginning to turn to normalcy and if my leg pans out we will soon find each other again gleaming in the woods, as we share the path between each other.

We even take macro economics together, he reads my blog everyday (my most advid reader, and is brutality honest telling me that my posts sucked. Altogether the perfect training partner is one that runs similar to you, runs mainly the same mileage, supportive, and is always there to push you through :). I hope everyone that runs will have that perfect training partner. This one is for you training buddy!

Good luck at Navy Champ you're last two workouts have been impressive.. Mull it over why dont you

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Today we ran 11.5 miles w/ Max, Pat, Skeet, and Tom. We hit up new trails again today and mainly stayed on paths. It progressively got quicker. For some reason, of late, in the middle of my runs I feel shaky, like i have low blood sugar or something. It's been kinda weirding me out. I hope it does not persist. after my run, we were suppose to do strides, but i decided to put it off till saturday. I am really not looking forward to tomorrow's workout, because it s suppose to be under freezing :/. I did my stretches and iced today.

Sorry about the delay with everything, but i have just been so busy with schoolwork, locking myself up in a room and just reading for 5 hours. I am really trying to get on top of my academics, so unfortunately i will be putting my readings over these entries.

Although it has only been a week of classes (seems so much longer), I cannot complain about my classes. I really am intrigued by all of them, except for macroeconomics. I am taking a pretty sweet freshman seminar based on steroids in baseball and the constant obsession of the human race for perfection of the body. My other classes are pretty generic, such as Brit Lit 1 (where we have read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and are starting the Canterbury Tales), Greek and Roman Mythology (which is an huge amount of work, being assigned to 100+ pages every night), and Comparative Politics which is mainly just out of interest in a possible major that i may take a stab at.

With my classes comes a great class schedule (in reference to time). MWF my first class is at 11, allowing me to sleep in and to top that TR i have my first class at 12:30. I wake up whenever I feel its time and never feel very weary or tired. This semester is looking quite up (knock on wood). Tonight I went to Andrews again and brought a friend John Muller (dont worry John, next time I get to really think you will enjoy that post, promise). This time there was no interference by any rude peers, which was nice. As I right this i still have about 70 pages of reading left and may just give up on it and call it a night.

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Tuesday: I had my secondary workout of a 28 minute pace run. I didn't have very much expectations of this workout, as i still feel grossly out of shape and on that day i had not drank any water for pretty much the whole day (as well as getting pounded the day before). So i started off at a conservative pace that proved to be a wise choice. Pete Asaro and I ran mainly the whole thing together splitting 5:24, 5:23, 5:23, 5:28(very windy haha), 5:17. This happens to probably be my worst pace run workout, but i feel like i stayed in the provisions of the workout at 85%, it was weird my breathing was fairly solid, jsut my legs did not have much pop in them. I feel that if i went with the second pack that went, i could of used them and held on for a much "better" performance, but probably would have gone above the suggested effort level. Hopefully this will be a just a stepping stone to a much more successful season in track.

I got about 11.7 miles out of the run, as we ran 20 mins to the Rec Loop and than did the workout, 10 minute run back to campus, 4 hard strides (felt pretty quick there), and another 10 minutes around the campus with John.

My leg after the run felt terrible, I couldnt walk without limping and it was really swollen where the it band connects to the knee. This of course concerned me and Harry gave me some advice on some stretches and what i should probably do that night (which was to ice it). My dilemma however was that my dorm does not have an ice maker. So either i had to spend my whole night in the locker room or just not ice and allow it to remain swollen. I am really tired and frustrated with this injury, so i decided to be smart and i spent the next 4 hours icing 12 mins on and 25 mins off, which reduced the swelling and allowed me to be able to walk fairly well once it had warmed up.

Wed (Today's Run): Today was my MR+ run of 13 miles. It was a pretty pleasant run through tthe trails, whihc probably not the best for my IT band. Which felt decent, i could still feel it a little and it had some moments where it didnt feel to hot, but overall fairly good.

I stretched before the run with the rope and Harry applied some Kinseo tape (the black stuff sported by Hasheem Thabeet and the volleyball chicas). We didnt do it quite right, but we figured it be better than nothing.

After the run we had to do core, which consisted of variations of planks, crunches, push ups, supermans, lunges, etc. I stretched after core and iced, later in the night while reading, I did 2 sessions of icing. Hopefully tomorrow my leg will feel a little better.

Special thanks to Harry Miller for all the help :).

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Sexology

'School of Wizardry on Facebook'

For all those who do not know, i devote about 15 minutes a day all chopped up spread sporadically throughout my day on the Facebook app School of Wizardry. haha i know this sounds like possibly the nerdiest thing in the world and honestly that's why i started it. As i continue my quest to becoming the greatest wizard, every minute i spent "managing myself" i became more absorbed by the app.

When i started i thought it would be some type of RPG game where you could duel others, but honestly it has no action whatsoever and is a huge turnoff for most. Basically you have energy and health and the goal of the game is to use your energy on lessons that you must complete to obtain a new level. You use your health and stamina to "duel" people, which is merely clicking on duel with some person that you think you can beat, by looking at their followers and their attack and defense. That's the basic overview of the game, there are much more aspect that make it harder, like investing your money in real estate that in the end provide you with more money (it's an investment). Basically if you do not invest, you ll become stuck in the game as you cant afford any of the items (that are needed to do lessons, they become pricier as you go on) to expend your energy on lessons. there are much more facets of the game that I will not describe, but i just thought id share my passion.

People ask me how this is at all fun, it really isnt fun, it's just like running. I do it to compete and succeed. So as they post my world rank, I do my very best to keep climbing the ladder to Wizardry greatness :). Plus, I am all about managing, like in NCAA Football (my favorite video game) unless I am online or have some friends play, I do not actually "play" the dynasty. I just simulate and just do all the management stuff, such as recruiting and setting up the best team for the best situation. So my suggestion is people should try the app haha.

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Today was my long run today and finally the end to the longest week i have ever had haha. Gibby was gracious enough to let us sleep in a bit later, im assuming because we have recruits this weekend. We traveled out to York state park and started my 16 mile journey. I ran in a pretty big group for a long run consisting of Pat, Jon, Ben, Sklo, and Adley. Pat and I usually start out together and we have a pretty regular long run route, which i like a lot.

i think we all felt pretty sluggish today, everyone looked kinda slow and flat. My it band wasnt feeling to hot, but not that bad.. as i am writing now, it has gotten worse. i could basically feel it there, but it did not hurt, so much better than yesterday but still not where i want it to be. The only plus was today was a beautiful day from mainly the miserable days of Williamsburg.

Week Mileage: 76.3 miles

The augury dissatisfaction

Tomorrow is the NFL's Conference Championship games. I believe the New York Jets vs. Indy Colts play first most likely on cbs for the AFC Champions. Followed by the more intriguing game of the NFC, where the Minnesota Vikings go to battle with the New Orleans Saints in the Dome.

Has anyone ever noticed how cbs game, mainly AFC games are just extremely boring. Like i rather watch the seahawks play the rams, than watch the steelers play the bengals or some game that is worth note but not to the prestige of Colts vs. Pats, but even when those type of games roll in its still quite difficult for me to stay intrigued with the CBS game. It's like everyone is practically on their death bed and every thing just seems so generic and how's no extras that FOX provides. The commentators see quite dull and just matter of the fact, while the Fox announcers are energetic, joyful, and try to actually entertain and retain listeners. I do not know if this is just me or if it's the same for everyone. I am just glad I decided to be a Redskins fan (no matter how much they break my heart, but tha will be another topic in time) than a Ravens, because CBS might just put me in a coma.

But anyways back to my reason for my post, my picks. I believe the AFC representative will be the Indianapolis Colts, I was going to go with the sleeper pick with the NY Jets, but in one of my classes my teacher asked us who we thought and everyone said the Jets were going all the way? I guess everyone has jumped on their bandwagon/underdog story. so i gave some thought to it and decided i was just willing the Jets to win and logically i cannot see Manning blowing the game like the Chargers did. The jets talent is no where near the colts and they ll need more than a defense guru to stop the Indy attack... im saying the slot receivers have a huge game and Wayne burns Darrelle Revis at least once.

For the NFC, again i really want the Saints to win, Favre has disgraced and tarnished his legacy. I use to be in love with how he played, but the fact that he can't let it go and does the ultimate no no in the Bay, by signing with the Vikes i just have no respect anymore. But i am just not convinced the Saints are the real deal, like they ball out on offense, but their defense has holes and is not very staunch. They played well against the Cards, but the Cards were out of sinc from the 3rd drive till the clock read 00:00. Naturally Favre's fairytale ending will continue for another game, as i pick the Vikes to up end the Saints, in a close battle that actually is not a high flying scoring game but stuck in the 20's maybe one team hits the low low 30s. I really has mixed emotions of this game, because although I do not think the Saints are completely there, i am not totally sold on the vikes, and karma is catching up to number 4, it's only time till he blows another huge game with nonchalant and forced throws.

If the Colts lose, I will not be making a prediction, as i think they will take the crown for themselves. I do not believe if I can just come back and say who is going to win the Super Bowl if my picks for the conference championship games fell through.

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Ugh, so Saturdays are usually my easy days, where i can just enjoy a run and not worry about anything and just run. Of course the running gods would not give me a break and decided to make my it band feel the worse it has it quite sometime. It's rather depressing that it has regressed this far... I ran for 4.5 miles today, just around campus and through some trials. It was enjoyable when my it band was not hurting, after my run I stretch a good amount and iced.

Oh also today was my first day i went off my pain medication so that could be a big reason why it hurt so bad today, but im afraid if it doesn't get much better that I will be repeating the same steps, as i did earlier this season :/.

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Insolence to a whole new degree

Like i said in my '1st post,' i had a ton of homework to do and i was trying something new out by working in an academic building, instead of the library. I had never done this before, but i was beginning to realize from my unsuccessful 1st semester that although the library is suppose to be a place of solitude and focus, it is far from that. A lot of people like to waste time and think of off topic things to do, as if the library makes them feel better about themselves, because at least they are at the place where people are suppose to do work (kinda like when people go to class, just to go, and do not pay one lick of attention). Anyways, so instead of going to the library, I proceeded to Andrew's Hall and went to a far off location inside the building. 20 minutes in i was loving it, i was breezing through my literature and going on to my next homework assignment, when a lady came in and asked me, "Do you have a class or are you just doing work?"I told her, "No, I am just doing some homework." She than asked me a question that I regret answering so kindly. "Would it be alright if i did some work?," she said. Of course being the gentleman that i am i said, "sure." As she got situated she could not have made more of a ruckus, slamming her books around, ruffling papers for what seemed to be over an hour, kicking a chair over, trust me she did it all. She than brought out her computer and began to blair her music for a good 5 minutes, while I was reading, after she was done being insensitive she turned off the music and gave me 5 minutes of peace. When all of the sudden "She wolf" by Shakira began echoing throughout the room. Instead of going outside and talking to her friend, she stayed and talked, leaving me to continously re-read the same line over and over again. But you know it's probably my fault, i should be able to block out noise better, i'll work on that. Don't worry things get worse, after her phone call 2 of her friends barge into the room and without even acknowledging my presense goes stragiht to the projector screen and hits up facebook to talk about boys that they had sex with and which was hotter. I was so baffled with the amount of rudeness i was experiencing that i just sat their with a blank stare watching and listening to their meaningless and frivolous conversations. i began trying to work again, but it was to avail, i really am terrible at reading, while there is noise it would be awesome if i could just block it all out. Terribly this is not so, hence the reason i sought solitude for my reading. So i just started packing up, on my way out, 5 more girls began entering the room.

As i was walking out, I thought to myself is this a joke? Like you got to be kidding, i just couldn't believe this woman and how she didnt even ask me to leave or try to get her friends to be a little more respectful, as i was clearly trying to work and was their first. Obviously she had no respect and could give a shit about me or having any manner of politeness. It really infuriates me that people can just be so stuck up. My trip out was not in vain though, as I was getting pretty hungry and headed over to the library, where instead of work beign done, i started this paltry blog.

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So I had my primary workout today. This is only my second workout back from injury and it definitely felt like just like that. I ran a total of 14.3 miles, off of a 34 minute fartlek (4min on, 2min off x 4-- 3min on, 2 min off fartlek x 2). In case one does not know what the term "fartlek" means. it's when you run hard (on our team that means 90-95% effort pace) for the allotted amount of time and than instead of resting for the other part, like you would with intervals, one runs at a regular pace for the remainder of the time interval (so like 6 minute mile pace).

My group ended up becoming a pack of 5 with John Muller, Maxwell, Pence, Adley, and I. We ran fairly consistent running 5:27, 5:25, 5:22, 5:15, 5:21, 5:25 over the hilly "Country Road." Workouts with the team makes things much more manageable, as you feed off of one another and are able to switch the lead among the pack. it's an invaluable advatange in these types of workouts for runners like me who have a hard time running hard efforts on their own, sadly.

I felt pretty good for most of the run, but in my last set, my back began cramping a tad. I am going to begin stretching out my back that with a few stretches my coach showed me. I hope things will begin to become more manageable as my training progresses.

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1st post

This is the blog that sums up my life and how frivolous and boring it has become due to my obsession of running. the monotony of running has really begun making me soul search a lot about my life and whether i am doing the right thing. As injury has already begun to plague my season, it's been hard to maintain a focused sound state that an aspiring elite runner must have. However, running is almost a drug, where i have become addict to the competition and the lust for personal glory and perfection that i do not see myself ever discontinuing the dream of actualizing my potential in the sport.

I currently attend and run for the College of William and Mary, which is a small state school in Williamsburg, VA. known for their academics and basically that's it.

I have a ton of homework to do and this is primarily a blog to keep track of my running log, that i often misplace or end up not filling out, so this entry will be brief.

-10 mile run with Maxwell and Skeet at a fairly decent pace probably hitting around 6 min. still feeling real weak and sore from the drastic increase in mileage and intensity. My IT Band keeps me, still, in constant paranoia, as i worry about getting re-injured all the time. it didnt feel too shabby, but still could somewhat feel it, without it hurting.. if that makes sense at all. I did some quick strides and core, as it was raining a whole a lot. Another miserable point about my school is that it constantly rains and really puts a damper to one's mood.

Oh and i finally got a watch! it could be the girliest watch i ever done see, but i like, its a timex, purple/pink infusion of colors, it makes me think of my lovable mother. Also i donned my white full tights today, caused a lot of ruckus, as people called me a faggot and what not, but there were many that were really feeling 'em :)

Previously this week, before i forget.

Monday: I ran 7.5 miles at an okay pace somewhere around 6:15-20 with the likes of John, Thomas, and Adley. did 4 strides and did two sets of drills and core.

Tuesday: had a workout that collectively lasted 11 miles... it was a 24 minute pace run where my first mile was 5:07 and my last was 5:12? (i think). not a very impressive workout, my back cramped up mid way and my focus was just completely lost. Props to my roomie Zach had a great workout on his road to return after his injury!

Wed: I had an MR+ (which is a secondary long run) of 13 miles, i meant to only do 12, but the people i ran with were doing 13, so i just went with them for the whole way. The pace was pretty darn fast, especially on the roads. My legs were real tired, from strides, core, and the workout, whihc i have not done in over 3 weeks, due to injury. Nevertheless a great run, to kind of whip myself into shape. and my capri tights were in full force, an runners out there that read this, definitely should invest in some capri tights. Starting a movement.

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