Welcome Home??

Back in my home town, back to my old life,
Glad to see some old faces, sad too leave all the new ones.

Home is weird, doesn't feel like I belong here, only 4 months till I'm back at X, until then onward with the  Summer Of Love. I reunited with half of "Benny and the Jets", BJ and SM, both greeted me with huge hugs. Now we all await for one more to join our party, Durr. He is the other half of NPS and makes his first appearance this friday. Can't wait.

As I try to write this, I realized why I loved being 17 hours away so much, there was no family problems to deal with. But, dont wanna get into that, not worth the rant.

So as stated by DC it looks like we will have three men in the Olympic Marathon, it's even more exciting because we havent had any since '96. Go Canada! Now we wait for a few other Canadians to make there attempts for the standard giving them a ticket to London. Before I forget, I mean, how can I forget, CAM LEVINS. Punched a ticket to London last Saturday night, ran 13:18 for 5km with a last quarter in 55 seconds out kicking the indoor NCAA record holder Lawi Lalang. What a run by the young Canadian.

Back to reality, feeling kinda sluggish the last two days, dont know whats up... lack of sleep I'd say. I can deal. Next problem is wether or not to race on saturday... I'll figure it out later.

Gahh... This whole thing is out of whack, there is no order. I'm going mad! I need to get back to X!

Alright, common theme of every post, I can always share a good story about drinking, seems to be the only thing that I do. Last night at X my Pops decides to buy me 42 beers... I'll tell you again if you missed it, he bought me 42 beers. The only thing I said was, "you know I'm a light weight right?" Anyways, finished my last exam and cracked open the first one. felt sooo good. Went over to a get together with a bunch of XC guys and gals, dropped the brews upon the floor and said "my father came in the form of Santa Claus, enjoy." I think I made about 4 new friends that night. Got into the pub for free and didn't have to wait in line, gosh you have to love the older girls on the team. Danced the night away, said my good byes left the pub almost in tears... Nope, just kidding Imma man, and men don't cry. Had a pit stop on my way back to my room, said good bye to a few more people. Then finally ended up passing out at around 4am. Solid night, until i had to get up at 7am to drive 17 hours back to my home. DEATH!!

Either way I made it. Much catching up to do with all my friends back at home. Looks like I'll be telling the same stories back to back for a couple weeks.

Umm.. I'll end it there cause I feel like I have said to much BS and no real quality. It'll be better next week I promise.

RJ

Better Worry If You're Not Worried

You never have to start worrying until you stop worrying. These are the words of the day my friends, and they apply to all aspects of performance - racing, exam preparation, when there's not enough time to grow a proper race beard - you get the idea. The very idea that I am blogging amidst acceptable academic standard-threatening exams causes me to worry. Which is a good thing... I think.

On the note of studying, I came up with a cool idea. It's like physics, only better. I call it... "The Fundamental Knowledge Osmosis and Physical Factual Absorption Theorem". The proportion of knowledge that seeps out of your books and into your head is directly proportional to the distance the book is away from your pillow when you go to sleep at night. I know all about Freudian psychology but I've never cracked the text. Good thing I don't have an exam on that...

Ok, my break is over, time to get back at 'er. Big shout out to the main man Wykes, crazy finish photo from Rotterdam below. Also, Rob Watson setting a huge pb in a painful finish.

DC

The Sun Always Comes Up And The Birds Will Always Chirp.

Well, Imma go MIA for a couple days, maybe like 13 or 14. Gotta get studying for finals, should be fun... Actually not at all, any little idea that pops into my head turns into at least 30 minutes of wasting time. What I would do for a motivation pill is beyond comprehension. But, I'm not going to bore you with talk about studying.

I wish I could spare every detail of the last 4 days of my life, pretty much the most fun I have ever had. Two big drinking nights back to back, all I talk about is drinking, couple amazing jogs and well... maybe a amazing gal. First night drinking, last class bash, and yes it was on a tuesday, and yes more than half of campus was drinking. It's soo cool when that happens you feel like you belong everywhere cause everyone shares one thing in common with you. That one thing.... RAGE. Day 2 in the pre exam binge was Athlete Banquet, kinda long, but so wicked! All the athletes are such great people, when we all get together its always a blast, starts off as the XC team hanging around our own kind but slowly as we all get more into the brews and spirits or whatever you be drinking we become a huge family! X is truly 13 sports 1 team. I love it here!

Was kinda drunk.

Something our coach has said a couple times this year: "If you can be a man at night, you better be a man in the morning."

Luckily practice was in the afternoon both days.

Jogging though this week has been a blast, this year has been nicknamed the Year of the Trails. Been running for a almost 2 months now and still havent touched pavement. Yesterday, suppose to be an off/easy day, myself and AD went out for what we thought would be an easy 40min, we ended up gone for 100 minutes. Found some wicked trails, huge climbs, fast downhills, and some views that would take your breathe away! I'm serious, I'm going to bring a camera out here at take some pictures one day. Free facebook cover photos for all!

Now finally the part everyone wants to hear about... I dunno where to start. Amazing. OH S***. She just knocked.

Enjoy,
RJ

Oh, best be cheering for Rob Watson tomorrow as he attempts to make the Canadian Olympic team. This guy is a beast! Have watched him race a couple times, Ballsy as f***! Onward to Rotterdam. 

Summer of Love

The nickname I have given the this up coming summer. Other than working it should live up to its name. Lots of fun events planned and such but I'll talk about them when they become relevant. Just going to point this out there but, DC MISSED HIS WEEKEND POST. Oh well, he is now slightly humiliated.

Thought I'd change it up this week and give a little jogging up date. About a month in, feeing absolutely fantastic. Had a rough time this indoor track, couldn't find any speed, and training on a paved road for a lot of it. Now though, with spring in the air, and the snow pretty much all melted I can go back to basics. For the last 3 weeks I have maybe spent 3 hours on paved roads, I have been on the trails like they are going outa style. Building up some mileage too, dont need the 100mile weeks yet, saving those for later. Moving pretty slow, like I said back to basics. Strides and Drills. All Day, Every Day.

Also hitting up a little race action first weekend back from X, hopefully I've been doing something right. A 10km in O-town, the wiener gets some hefty prize money which could get myself and DC to Oly Trails, COUGH Jr Nats COUGH.

I guess the Beer Mile would count as jogging. Haha. Didn't get the result i was hoping for, but did quite respectable, sub 9 minutes. 25 minutes after it hit me. I'll end the story there. Long night. Very long night.

Now back to a world that isn't so boring, what is new in my life... Well, actually this is kinda boring. For the next 3 weeks I'm going to lock myself in a room and study my heart out, my balls off, etc etc.

EXAMS!!

Yepp, I'm home the 22nd or 23rd depends if my father wants to stop in QC and hit up the bars or not. Hopefully my mom doesn't read this. S*** I told her about this blog today... Guess I'll be home the 22nd. Damn the 18hours I'll be sitting in a car.

Anyways, sorry for being boring.
RJ

One exciting thing, trimmed the leg and chest hair. I'm hoping timeless time comes soon.

Side note: Took me like an hour to type this whole thing out, got lost listening to one of the most legendary rock bands of all time, Pink Floyd. Their 1st album, which came out during The Summer of Love. 1967.