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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