Chasing Down Olympians.

Sunday morning as everyone is nursing their hangovers from a long night of beers, the St.FX xc team heads out on the road to tackle miles and miles of dirt road. From my understanding, it's the same dirt road that has been run on since the beginning of time. Anyways, some of us were also nursing headaches this early sunny sunday morning and as always the conversation of sundays LSD always goes to the night before, where you hear stories of hook ups, puking on windows, falling, beer pong, pub, etc etc.

But was not expected was crossing paths with an idol of the whole St.FX team. Everyone turned their heads as he gracefully floated by. Our stomachs were filled with butterflies, our hearts pumping, our legs running in the opposite direction?

I look right, I see AD, I look left I see SD. "umm... wanna...?"

Before I could finish that thought we were chasing down none other than Eric Gillis. It was amazing! It was the same feeling you get when you really like a girl and wanna tap her on the shoulder and say hello. So there we were, with no game plan just hamming after the legend that is Eric Gillis, minutes go by but it feels like hours as we try to catch up. Finally after 3 minutes there we are, on his shoulder speaking words to him.

Of course we forget to congratulate him on the Olympics and stuff. But the conversation was everything but dry, he asks us who we were, we chatted about school, running, the Time Trail, life events other than the Olympics. Hands down a once or twice in a life time experience. He had to peel off and head home, so we casually said our good byes and continued our stroll.

next up Wykes...

rj

We Dont Do Mileage For the Sake of Mileage, But We Do Do Mileage.

Alright, I'll start from the begininning. Way too many early mornings and long car drives. But in the end, I ended up where I wanted to be. STFX. Some highlights of the adventure, climbed a mountain with my feet. the whole hotel thought I was crazy when I was asking where the trail was to go up to the top. Power hiked a solid portion that was un-run able. At this point of my running career thou I must say I'm not ready to tackle Leadville yet. Slowly working on it, but might havta spend a couple more years above sea level.

Speaking of sea level thou, I'm here now, I can smell the ocean and everyone can smell me. Both good and bad smells depending what time you catch me. What I'm saying is that training camp is in full swing, the boys are looking good, and the doubles are, well... they suck. I havent sleep much do to the amount of alcohol that has been consumed. The past week, has been a large binge. One of the biggest. I'm not positive but I might have drank my body weight...

Drink up me hardy's yo ho.

rj

p.s.

Running Stuff: basically, running doubles everyday. hoping for the mileage to be over 100km, then when s*** gets serious hopefully can run that amount plus more. But I mean the ideal situation would be to not go to school and train like a boss. lets be real though, stay in school.

One More Time, I Gonna Celebrate.

Last night with my partner in crime. Last night I see him till the end of time. Gonna celebrate, he may be broken and frail, but that ain't stopping tonight. We going out, out on the town, dont know when I'm gunna be back home, most likely past curfew, most likely gonna get in s*** by the folks, oh well, I'll respond will "durr". They will know what that means, they will also see the sad expression on my face, the tears in my eyes, but they wont see the fear, nope no way. You know why? Cause there is a little bitta durr in everyone.

The voyage will commence early sunday morning and we head south east to the White Mountains. I'll pick up a tad of altitude training while i'm there, 4000feet or something. I'm curious to see what affects it has on my body, too bad I'm only there for a day. Either way, should be a fantastic time. 

I'll let you know how it go.
Hey Cam grow the fro.

rj
sorry... needed a rhyme.

I brought a megaphone, To use inside your home.

The street I live on was fantastic growing up, there were always kids older than me that I would look up too, I also wanted to be just like these older kids too. I'd see them playing basket ball or road hockey and that stuff, so naturally me and my friends grow up playing basket ball and road hockey. So i'm bringing this up cause the other day I seen two young guys going out for a jog, these kids were no older than 12. Thinking about it, did these kids see me and decide that they wanted to be like me? I mean do the little kids on the street look up to me? Would be pretty freaking cool. But I truly do not wish these career choice upon anyone, (does that em make sense?) running sucks! Its freaking hard. So many ups and downs. But I love it! I love pushing my body to its limits, finding my breaking point. Little off topic here... What I'm trying to say, if you kids were truly inspired by me, please go after it! Running is very good for the body and the mind. Its a lot of work but its so worth it in the end. But how can I say such things.. I havent yet made it too the end. Speaking of not at the end, I'll talk about the start. The start of XC season is very soon. To make it better, I retired from work! Got a week off then off to the real maine for some relaxation and solid training. Then the next stop after that is X.

LETS GO
LETS GO
LETS GO

rj

First I limp to the side like my leg was broken, Shakin' and twicthin' kinda like I was smokin'

Three things on tap for today, Chest Flow, Evan Jager and One Direction. I dont really know how to make this 3 topics blend well, but I'll try. Here we go. Imma start with swag. I know it's not on the list but its kinda a link between these 3 topics.

Now thats a picture of Evan Jager. And he has swag. So I'm kinda hoping that most of the readers are runners and can understand some of the runner slag, but I'll try to dumb it down for the non-runner readers. He has hair, lots of it to be exact. most of it is on his head. I think he shaves he legs (pretty bada**). This dude might be one of my favorite runners born in 1989. Now the explantation of why I am talking about him.

Number One: Hair
Number Two: White
Number Three: Steeplechase
Number Four: His Swag, the guy has the biggest bounce and shoulder shrug mid run.

Now speaking of his swag it looks like he doesn't have hair on his chest. Maybe he shaves that too. Either way, I have have chest flow. I do admit that it gets shaved or trimmed every once and a while but currently its pretty lengthy. Now heres my problem its summer, it's hot, and the bugs are out. Now I don't think I have ran in a shirt in about 4 months due to the heat, it doesn't help to much its hot out. And with the heat comes the sweat. So...

Heat + Hairy Chest + Bugs = Sweaty Chest Full Of Dead Bugs.

Its actually a fantastic feeling! Actually I'm lying it sucks, its gross.

Now finally the 3rd topic, The Olympics. Canada did extremely well bringing home 18 medals. More importantly we had all 3 marathoners cross the finish line unlike the USA. Congrats guys! Atta be Coolsaet, Gillis, and Wykes. . 

from right to left: rando guy, Wykes, Coolsaet, Gillis, Cam MF Levins.

They look so pumped! It must be cause they just seen ONE DIRECTION at the closing ceremonies or they are just really drunk. The second option seems more true. Either way Olympics are over.

Like MC Hammer On Crack!

rj