A short accident

So I was out running today, you know doing the typical Sunday long run in my newly acquired SOARK shorts, tiger striped, top of the line, ridiculousness over 9000. When I noticed that almost every car that drove by me took their eyes off the road and just stared at me. At first I found it pretty funny, but after a while i started getting concerned i mean what if one of them hits a banana peel when they're not looking and swerves off the road and get's in an accident, I mean if they're not looking at the road that is a definite   possibility! So to solve this problem I decided I wasn't going to look at the drivers as I saw them going by, by not looking at them they're both looking at me and not looking and me at the same time, which is better than all of them looking at me for sure. Even tho that application of schrodinger's cat is totally missused it helps me sleep at night so whatever.

 Anyway the last 2 weeks have been pretty postless on NPS so i'm hoping one of the other boys will live an experience worth posting sometime soon, however even tho they've been pretty postless I've been running some fast times in that time, I ran a 9:09 in the 3000 dropping a whole 20 seconds off my pb in one race(with a head cold at that) and a 4:17 in the 1500 dropping like 4 seconds off that time so the season is looking pretty good. There's east regionals next week and i'm hoping to qual for ofsaa and sub 9 in the 3k but we'll see how it goes

Anyways speaking of experiences worth posting, today i was running through some bush and saw a porcupine in a tree so i decided i'd make a practical use of my shirt and lay it on the ground like a blanket and sit on it for nearly and hour staring at said porcupine in the tree, the porcupine finished by attempting to climb higher but fell out of the tree, so i thought that was pretty funny.

Anyways until next time!

-AP

It's Go Time

Well, the peak of training for this track season has come and gone and it's finally go time. All the training I've done all season is finally coming down to these next four weeks, the weeks that make it or break it, I name them the weeks of trail (You see it would be trial but trail is far to close and far to good of a word to refuse.) Anyway, this season has been going amazing so far, haven't raced one race yet that wasn't a P.B so that must mean something is going right, right? It must have been all those hot miles in the summer with a mixture of the bitter sweet speed through out the winter but even so, as I sit here thinking about the next few weeks I get kind of nervous, I mean there's so much that could go wrong in 4 weeks! For example I could be out for a yog and get rabies from a raykon, or I could pull something, or I could break something, or I can burn out, or I can not get any faster, or, or ,or..... Thinking about does not put me in a good mood so I've resolved just now to not have a negative thought for the rest of the season, maybe I need a chat with D.C, he always knows what to say to keep the bad thoughts at bay. Man that was a good rhyme! Besides the lingering thought of my upcoming races, I'm also pumped for this summer, I mean, this may just be the last summer that the jets are together, so I'm thinking we'll need to make the most of it, and what's a better excuse than to up the mileage.

if 

mileage = t (time)

and

t*number of jets present = fun

than it makes sens that i need to up the mileage this summer, and it also makes sens that Bennabus should come home asap. I mean why waste something so valuable as fun!  I'm thinking of hitting 100km weeks this summer, and with the help of the jets this large feat becomes simple and fun. Anyway that post was kind of boring, it was more of just an update than anything but see ya next time.

-A.P

Keeping the Sabbath Holy.

Our Pre, which art in Oregon,

Hallowed by thy hair and moustache.

Thy Kingdom run, mileage will be done,

Everywhere as it was done in 1972.

Give us this day our goals and aspirations,

And forgive our trespasses, 

As we forgive those who trespass against us. 

And lead us not into overtraining,

But keep us safe from injury.

For the trails is our kingdom,

The mileage and the glory.

For every km ever ran.

Amen.

rj