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…

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 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.

Yeah so today was another uneventful day. I finished a social networking site based on Drupal (I’m getting good with the whole template porting thing) and I actually used WINDOWS today (first serious use since 8th grade). I only used Windoze because the site I was working on had IE7 bugs and I couldnt get “IE7 4 Linux” to work correctly.

I’m still deciding whether to use Windows or Linux on my future laptop….I think I might actually go with windows because I plan to play some games in college (not too many of course!). Also, having used Linux for what, all of high school, I’m actually getting bored and sick of having to do some un-automated things all the time…even if I’ve written 40-50 scripts to automate things…its basically a good learning experience but not much more hahaha. Plus, I don’t need to pay for Vista which was in fact my first reason for switching to linux (I didnt want to buy XP Pro SP2, WGA just came out at that point and I was pirating I think). Got sick of that stuff, ended up moving completely to legal GNU stuff for all of high school, now possibly looking at a move back to the expensive world of corporate workware…

Hey but I actually have MONEY now so its less of a problem.

=]

I end work next Friday. It has been an interesting experience so far. My coworker’s cousin is one of the only Gold medalists for Israel right now though (Power sailing). Its been fun, mostly. The best part though, is how I have cash for gas to drive the car this year Oh and my laptop will be here any day now.

Ugh, train rides are still boring as hell though. I usually talk to someone on NJ Transit and then end up sleeping while I stand on PATH except that one day I met Jean Ren (Esther’s friend). Every day since then I’ve gone to Starbucks and picked up a Frappuchino before work. Its really weird trying to work right after waking up. And standing while you sleep isn’t that comfortable; I hit my head against the center bar of the train once. Ouch.

So as for running, I did a 50 minute run with Kev and Aaron. It felt good yesterday doing 2 courses, a loughran, and back. (About 70 minutes.) My entire group died though.

Sometimes I think I’m always over-pacing group 2, but I’m also way slower than group 1. The gap is too big!