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.