Friday: Didn’t run, felt injured…IT band acting up
Saturday: 70 minutes (25, break/stretch cause I was really tight, 45 more…)
Sunday: Water run 1 hour
Monday: 55 minutes
Tuesday: 5 toploops @ 9:45, 9:25, 9:20, 9:20, 9:30, then backwards with Bobby/Aaron who were hammering at 8:45 toploop pace. Sort of a disappointing run.

12:31 for the frosh course. I hit 12:2x soph year though, so this is a little upsetting. Oh well, I guess its what happens when you’re chronically injured and can’t do anything about it. I definitely will be seeing Dr. Connors when I get a chance.

I cleaned the upstairs today, and it was dusty as hell. I feel like dying cause I can’t breathe.

I am sore. Yeah I have to seriously pray. And take Advil.

Today I didn’t do much of anything. I woke up at 9:30am, ate breakfast, and then went back to sleep until lunchtime. Then I ate lunch, and spent the next 4 hours reading the news before heading off to practice.

Practice consisted of 40 minutes: 2 toploops, college hill, 1 time around the school, 1 lap around the track. Tomorrow is time trials.

Nike Zoom Forevers are the best spikes I’ve ever worn. They seem to support my arch better than my trainers do. I feel fast in them. But I’m still bitter that I wasn’t able to go to camp, because most of the guys who went have improved significantly, and I feel that having run alone (or with Dave Sun) at home hasn’t improved me nearly as much, if at all. We only did one workout after all, and it was bullshit.

I guess it was better that I didn’t go to camp though, because my shins and knees are still bothering me a lot. I think I will see Dr. Connors soon to pick up some Orthotics…

7/11, Taquitos, ’nuff said.

Or rather, I went to 7/11 with Dave Sun after running. We ran about 70 minutes: to village school, to park thru Roberts Road. Then we headed to 7/11 for some Taquitos and slurpees. Unfortunately, Dave’s mom called him and asked him where he was and he said 7/11 and she didn’t believe him. Which strikes me as slightly odd, except for maybe the fact that we asked her for the time today and she told us something about 7/11, which reminded me of 7/11, and Dave had Taquitos for lunch today, which reminded me of 7/11, and I was thirsty after the run, which reminded me of 7/11, and I asked Dave if he wanted to go, and off we headed after our run, to 7/11!

Ah I wonder how that ended for him. I get the notion he wasn’t supposed to go.

Ok so this week I’m pushing toward finishing homework and getting new things I need for school. Spent yesterday cleaning up, buying some supplies from Staples, and went running with Dave at 6pm. We did one FWBW in 8:07(him)/8:15(me)…because we were playing a game in which we had to try and pass at least 10 groups. For every group that passed us back, we had to do 5 hill repeats. We did 5 hill repeats (his version are short 15 second strides up the hill though, rather than mccaff’s long minute ones). Then we did 5 mile trail and went home. This was an annoying run. I was originally planning to do an hour or so. My hips and knees are feeling it though, so I guess it was all for the best?

The whole Church was filled with emotion and indescribable feelings today. Minister Jackson is leaving in October and its hard for any church to lose their leader. It doesn’t help that Wendy ah-yi left too, so now we’re basically running around like a headless chicken. I sure hope our Church gets its bearings together and finds some leaders.

Running was sort of fail today. I water-ran for 50 minutes, which was exhausting. Then I went to run with Dave Sun…but we only managed 30 minutes at a horrific pace because I was so sore from water running just 30 minutes before. Oh and then Aaron went with Dave to do one more hill, but I got bored waiting for them (I was going to give Dave a ride home) and so I drove UP, (I know, what the hell?), to the tennis courts and ran down. That was smart. I lost all motivation to run back up to the top of the park, so Aaron drove me and Dave back up to my car.

The Olympic closing ceremony wasn’t nearly as interesting as the opening. The marathon winners had their medals though and I felt so happy for Kenya. Go Kenya!

Today was my last day of work, marking the end of money making fun and the beginning of sorrowful homework. I am really loathe to begin math homework. The only thing I look forward to doing this weekend is finishing “On Writing Well.” In fact it has even inspired me to read Writing Forward by Melissa Donovan again, because some of the tips in the book match what Melissa writes in her blog. I almost feel like beginning an English major, though I know I want to do tech/business when I grow up. Oh well, we can’t win them all.

Running was very fail today. I went with Dave Sun up the start hill…stretched…and down the start hill. He already did it once with Aaron also. So he ran the most out of the three of us today. I guess it wasn’t a running kind of day, not when I worked an hour more than usual.

My laptop got delayed by 2 weeks because the color is backordered. I think I might actually get a refund and wait to buy my laptop because this one is functional again. I updated some drivers and it started working well all of a sudden.

So yesterday Staniforth and I went biking at 7pm down this cool trail that goes along route 36 (almost to Sandy Hook-ish) and it was the first time I’ve biked this summer without incident: before this a screw popped my rear tire, a gear dérailleur broke, and I later deflated my new rear, wheel which I found requires an adapter to inflate. Retarded, no?

Today I biked to the park at about 6:45pm, ran about 45 minutes (one and a half toploops, part of 5 mile trail, then frontwoods backwoods). The frontwoods backwoods I picked up quite a bit. Then I biked back. Overall an easy but decent run because I’m trying to ease my shins back into things after last week. They were miserable. I’ve been doing my exercises and all though, which is good. I don’t want to fall behind those folks at running camp! Speaking of which it is getting lonely here in Holmdel, with everyone on last minute vacations and all.

Tomorrow is the last day of work for me; I’m gonna miss it because I love making websites, but I really need the last week of summer to catch up on sorely neglected homework. After this job, I will be able to pay for prom, get a keyboard and then have roughly 12 tanks of gas. Or if I neglect the keyboard, I can get 24 tanks of gas.

Oh I forgot to talk about the Olympics. History was made these last few days. Usain Bolt won both 100m and 200m golds, and he broke the 100m world record while patting his chest. Misty May and Kerri Walsh became the first Olympic volleyball back-to-back gold medal winners with over 100 consecutive winning sets — they were undefeated for nearly a year! Both USA 4×100m teams were DQ’ed for dropping the baton. The Jamaican teams won first in both also, for the semifinals. China’s Roulin Wang (sp?) beat out a Canadian diver by 10 points for gold in women’s platform diving, making their total diving gold run almost complete.

Things progress rather quickly.

So this Monday I started the book “On Writing Well.” It is…amazing. I love it! I feel this extremely strong urge to write and rewrite old things I’ve written. I see beautiful writing everywhere, and sloppy writing where I didn’t notice it before. My word choice has improved from just reading this book. Priority #1 as of now: write in active voice.

Unfortunately this makes blogging every day more of a chore, now that I’m reading and re-reading everything I write.

Work has been the same as always. I went in late twice this week already though, because I overslept both Tuesday and today thanks to the Monday long run and the run yesterday. Monday we did 75 minutes in the nature trails. Yesterday was a breezy 45 minute run through the open woods in Thompson and a little bit of the reservoir trail. All in all, sore-fying, if thats a word.

Okay so maybe my word choice hasn’t improved all that much. But I’ll learn, you’ll see.

I do agree with Zinsser that exclamation marks are not to be used cheaply. Freaking typetards.