The summer bucket list(5/20/11)

1.Go to the drive in
2.Eat an entire XXX burger
3.Hike at least once a week
4.Run 6 Days a week
5.Get at least 500 miles in
6.Go on a run longer than 13 miles
7.Go on a camping trip with the group
8.Go fishing
9.Drive out to fort warden
10.Picnic somewhere random
11.Fly kites
12.Float the river
13.Go to flaming geyser
14.Beach camping/backpacking
15.Leave the state at least once
16.Bonfires galore
17.End of school year party (this really shoulda been at the top)
18.Burn "the pile" =)
19.Go on a crazy shirtless night run =)
20.Watch the meteor shower
21.Swim in the ocean
22.Go to the pool hall in the valley
23.The insane day =)
more to be added

Living life (4/30/11)

School,running,life
starting from the middle....
Running has kinda been blah for a while now, my body has been practialy telling me that it doenst like me and wants me to stop, every time i fix one problem another crops up.Been a depressing cylce but i dunno ive pretty much come to terms with it it and not let it bother me,there was a time when having all of this stuff happen with running would have torn me appart but now im pretty proud of where i am and how little its effecting my life.
One meet left havnt even come within reach of my 3200 time from last year but who knows, crazier things have happend

School consiting of BioAnthro,USHistory and Math. Anthro is both more and less than i went into it expecting,im really glad im taking it though, makes for a much more interesting alternative to normal biology,history is realy good but the teacher has a tendancy to go in circles and not be specific on any of the points he tries to get across, makes it a pain in the but for paying attention. Math has finaly gotten to the point where i am almost sad that i have a teacher that is impossible to understand,spent 2 and a half quarters being able to slack and half way listen and still get good grades in the class but now i actaly have to listen, like i said borderline depressing XD.

Life is going good,things on a whole are working out with school church running and everything combined.

Been a while

Life has been moving along,one quarter of green river done and another half way through. Its both easier and harder than i expected some things im outright shocked would be considered a challenge others i look at the teacher and go "did you forget you were teaching a 100 level class?" but hey its all life its fun and exciting and different and all kinds of things. I will never on pain of death (or at least frustration) take a philosophy class again in all my college years at least not if i can help it.
Running has been a roller coaster ive been able to convince myself to run more in the winter months than ever before but now as track approaches i have the feelings bombard me that usualy hit me in the cold and dreary months of november and december not january and feburary i just had it hit me that "why run its dumb what really made you even start and like it in the first place?" and that hit me,hard, i never give that question much thought when im feeling like that but for some reason i did and i seriously went to the brink considering quiting competative running for good giving up a pointless thing and for a few days i just quit running heck a week and i have to say it felt good but in the end that is not who i am.
I am a fighter who wont get put back by the winterrunningblues i will not back down and i will fight this to the end and heck i cant stop with so many people being able to say that they beat me thats just not ok.
I want my spot back.
No matter what i felt then i cant let it overpower me because in the end i am a runner who will not give up ever.

Awesome week

Well starting point is thursday the day after the double dual meet with KL and Auburn coach pulled Galen and i aside and he talked to us about how we needed to get our heads on straight for raceing and that we were going to do an alternate workout of going to mattson and running a pyramid workout at our racef pace all the laps the exact same time so that we would get more used to it and comfortable with it.
that night i wasup late writting a paper for school and then the next day i didnt have geography so i had lotsa time to get the stuff together to ask Jenni to homecoming and then with my second open hour i filled all the balloons which i have to admit looked pretty awesome filling my car up with them
Then psych i still need a solution to pay better attention he can be a little bit of a drag sometimes
then for the fun part when i went to the church building and covered Jenni's car with all the balloons i had split a note asking her between them all and it was cool and fun to set up
then practice after school and all that fun
jumping off mac's jeep and hurting myself
going to my first football game
tomahawk twilight invite i am finaly back i can really race again i took my spot and my time back and im pretty sure that i can get back on track for my plan so all is well
after my race logan and i went and ran the open and collected more people as we went ( GO TEAM PLATAPI!!!) it was awesome we had a blast doing the whole linked arms finish thing that you see so often
and to another note (im kinda bouncing off of everything)
we took 3rd at the meet so that was pretty dang cool and ya then general conferance and now
life is good =)

school?

School has started , well kinda, one class a day till the 7th then seminary starts and then no more classes added on till the 20th. Life is good its nice getting to relax for now.
XC started last month and the team is really improving we should be able to do pretty well this year
i didnt really post all summer so now i will take teh time to mention the fact that i got my license, i went on a bunch of hikes with jason and ran and biked alot over the summer and then i went camping this last weekend, o and of course cross country camp back in july was awesome a ton of work but i had a blast and am glad that this year i kept training after it XD
all is well to say the least

Summer is here

It is finaly here =)
school is over and i dont really miss it to terribly much , i mean there was some good stuff but now i can stop stressing about everything, i can finaly relax.
the downside to that is that right as school was ending i was starting to get sick and now that its over and im on break im just stuck here being miserable . well not as much anymore but still those first few days of summer were a bit of a downer cuz really who wants to jump into summer and not be able to do anything. ive just been chilling around the house bumming it out, first day i beat my bros copy of modern warfare, second i vegged out watching movies and third went to the books. more or less thats all ive been up to. went on a run with the morning group yesterday and had fun hurt like none other something wrong with my stomache, probably just being angry at me for making my body work before it felt better. im definately ready for utah, i need a little sun in life right now...even if it has to be scorching XD
The list
-500miles
-some roadraces
-xc camp in utah
-study up on math so i can get into 101
-watch the meteor shower when it comes around
-study for SAT
-read alot! ive had to cut back on all my reading till midnight this year between my newfound dedication to schooling and my dedication to my sports
-go camping at some point
-get a job
-find time to actualy hang out with the friends that i didnt spend much time iwth for a long time
-more running but for fun,just messing around instread of serious traininig
-finaly just relax and chill

we shall see if i catualy get the chance to do any of it, i sure hope so first time ive actualy made a to do list of summer things like this, my friends must be a bad influence

yaaaaay

i can run!!!!!!!!
i went out today before drivers ed for a run to experiment if i could do it without pain and shocker im finaly recovered from my injuries =)
today was cool im such a slacker in math we dont pay very much attention and its hilarious she keeps getting upset for some reason =)
and then there is the reoccuring deathtrap we like to call stage tech, gotta love it
thats been pretty tight and im going to miss it if i cant convince my counsolor to let me in even with green river
18 1/2 days till school is out and im geting a bit stressed i mean the workload isnt too bad but still a little much for my slacker brain, im not makeing the same mistake that i always to by going autopilot tho i need to actualy see this through and get this thing done with a bang as i cross the line