Where's Durr?

sO one derr, i was in the curr with Durr, and Durr ser to mer, Let's get some burr and some gurr! Got my bess gurr, took herr to the murr, said we werr going ta tha lurrk to drink da burr. but when me and durr get back in the curr, the dur of the gur rur to the curr and yer at der and i to give back his durr! needless to say, we ran outa burr beferr we left with tha curr.

AP and rj

Everybody's Got A Dream

As for what really matters, it's my dreams. Not the wet ones. (pause for laughter) The ones about my future, the ones that wake me up in the morning, and keep me up at night thinking about them. The issue is, the older generation only cares about what you wanna do for a living, and I can't say work 20 hours at a shoe store and run 100 miles every week. Most people just dont understand, they dont see how that can be rewarding, or how a futon couch can actually be quite comfy. But when its come down to it, I have no idea what I wanna do. I just keep putting one foot in front of the other and watch the mile markers fly by.

lil bit of that "GO GET" as my roommate would say it. He would also say stuff like "I pooped myself." So I'm not sure whether I should look for advice from him.

Big race this weekend, havta show SWPCM that I am still the chief, 21km is sure a long dance.

Go get,

rj

Got A Map?

I was pondering a life event to type about, cause I have been rather absent, I have came up quite empty, but at the same time very full. Full of knowledge, full of mileage, but not recently I have been "drunk and fat" (Rob Waston). Full of life time mileage, my log book finally hit 10'000km, a pretty big milestone in my books. Still working towards when I will start tallying my running in miles though. Back to lifetime mileage. I am sure no Halie Geb running 10km to school every day, but I wish, that would have been quite beneficial looking back on it. I'm talking the little things, like in the winter time go sliding and dragging my sled back up the hill over and over and over again. I'm curious if that has anything to do with me being a good hill runner, and a good bad conditions runner...

It's kind of a weird thought, maybe there is no truth to it, but maybe, just maybe, it helped.

So, enough of the serious stuff, ran a race, called it a season opener and closer. took a week, got drunk, got a map. And found our final destination on foot 3 hours later.

But, le grind begins today.

rj

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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