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this was the only photo i had.... Mt. Princeton 14,197 , August 20, 2005

my running log

i think i've become this obsessive runner that keeps logs of how much i run. (only i'm not keeping a log) i ran 5 miles today. audrey, you're right. once you've done 4, what's 5? next week, i'll try 6. sick, do you hear what i'm saying? who in their right mind just goes and runs 6 miles for fun? i'm insane. but here's my funny story....

after work, i run 5 miles on the treadmill. (it's still too hot outside. i know it's like cold in colorado. if you want to escape that, it's still like 90's here) after i run, i sit in the cold whirlpool to help with my shin splints and knee pain (i feel like i'm 40 after i run). so what happens after that? my co-worker had leftover mcdonald's fries from lunch, i ate them. hahahaha. i run 5 miles and then eat fries. hahahaha.

anyways, for my non-colorado friends, if you want a sense of where i came from, check out lifewithdarcy.blogspot.com. or just click on darcy's link on your right. just a quick background story, darcy is blayne and deborah's dog. she's the sweetest dog ever (after mine, of course). while blayne and deb are in ireland for a year, darcy is staying with jen. well, jen and her boyfriend, eric, are a little sick in the head.... that's all that needs to be said. check out darcy's blog. grab a tissue, it'll make you laugh til you cry. :)

i hate running...

so yeah, my church friends had this grand idea to train for a half marathon and asked me to join. stupid me said yes, so for the past 2 weeks i've been running my little tail off. in fact, i just got off the treadmill at work. so i'm sitting here in a ball of sweat, still breathing hard, writing my blog. i just ran 4 miles. longest distance since i started. go me. i told them that i would give training 1 month, and if i still hate it at the end of a month, i will quit. but for those who know me, i'm a insanely competitive person, and i don't quit. so i have become a masochist (how do you spell that?) and i run about 5 times a week, anywhere from 2 to 4 miles a day.

why am i running a half marathon, you ask? well, i thought since i ran cross country in high school, what's 13.1 miles? well, i also forgot that it was 8 years ago that i was running 6-7 miles a day. and even then, i hated it. i guess it's one of them life feats that i want to accomplish. i figure that i'll never run a full marathon, i'm not that ambitious. so half that would be good in my books.

so even though running a marathon is far from my life goal, i have a fun question for my blog of the day: what one thing would you like to accomplish before you die? for me, it's not run a half marathon. but it's one of little things i would like to check off in my life time. is it hike all the 14'ners? go to disneyland? see the seven wonders of the world (or is there 8?)? i would LOVE to hear your answer....

funny how God works...

well, well, well. i jumped on the bandwagon and thought that this would be funner than writing out e-mails. now anyone can come read all about my life. how freaky is that? anyways. deborah, thanks for introducing me to this awfully addicting thing. i don't have internet access in my apt, but at work and the community center at my apt complex, i do. so i guess it's both good and bad. good, because i would write a blog every day and bore you guys with pointless stories about my boring life. (it's not like i'm in ireland or something.) but bad, because it will take me a few days or weeks to write and update. oh well, i'll get there....

so anyways, here's my CRAZY turn of events for the week. klarissa's family has been going thru a rough time, her parents are finally officially getting a divorce. thru this process, her dad has had some sort of revelation that i'm not that bad after all, in fact, i was always a good influence on klarissa. he has, in the last week, allowed klarissa to talk to me whenever she wants to, and he is allowing her to come out here to visit me. WHOA!!!!! isn't that CRAZY?!?!? makes me want to go into his head and figure out his thought process. though mom is not very happy about it, both of her parents know and so she's booked a ticket in late october to come see me. FREAKIN' CRAZY isn't it??? funny how God works....

so this is my blog for the day/week. this is actually kinda fun!

I'm a blogger virgin...

so all my church friends have one of these, but i thought that i was not cool enough to have one too. but in actuality, i was just refusing to be part of the "in crowd". it wasn't until i read deborah's blog about how she hung out with a chinese guy did i HAVE to create a blog to reply to how COOL it was that there are chinese people in ireland!!!! so now, when i visit, i won't stick out like a sore thumb!! are there more chinese people in ireland than there was in greeley? if so, that's pretty awesome! :)

so anyways, i might try this new thing to keep my friends updated with my new life in phoenix. we'll see how often i update it. (i'm sure as often i as wrote them e-mails...)

so another blogger virgin thought: when i write in these bloggers, who do i address my bloggers to? a specific someone, the computer, or a fly on the wall? maybe this blogging thing might just be a bit too confusing for me....

peace out.