My thoughts, My life

KJ was gone today because of the Elite meet, and so he left us with a workout and put Amber in charge. Amber is a student at the college studying to become a physical educator  She's almost, but not quite, an assistant sprinting coach.  Some pictures from the Elite meet. Courtesy of KJ: The workout was just 4 laps with 100 yrd sprints on the straightaways, 10 100s with 40 second rests between. The weight room was locked and since Amber isn't an official coach she doesn't have a key and we couldn't workout. I don't think anyone was sad. That was the earliest the girls sprint team has ever finished. Usually we're the last ones there, because KJ just talks and talks. I decided that since I haven't really been training for the half-marathon well at all since track started that I should probably go for a run. Start gathering some miles up. WORST IDEA EVER, actually that's a lie. I've had worst ones. Like working out with Nick. I...

So I'm susppose to increase my training hours for skiing. I'm suspose to be taking it pretty easy right now, and therefore haven't been doing much. Well let's see what we're at! Hour Minute Second 1 10 1 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 29 48 2 0 0 0 49 1 0 30 0 1 30 0 1 45 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 45 0 1 2 43 2 0 0 1 30 0 1 3 13 2 30 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 41 0 Total 32 344 106 Simplified              37hrs     45mns      46sec Which means I only have between 361hrs 15mins and 14sec, and 411hrs 15min and 14 sec of training left until the end of February. Well...I ...

Today we were suppose to have a track meet had been rescheduled, but it was cancelled.That was bad and good. Bad, because I had to take the Spanish test and I'm pretty sure I failed. Good, because I wound up being all asthmatic for the day. I seriously could not breath, but get this; I had a perfect oxygen levels and there was no wheeze or anything. No reason for me not to be able to breath and yet I couldn't. Hopefully it doesn't happen again. Since I decided I shouldn't go to track I ran errands instead. Pretty boring. Afterwards I ran over to the Armory, talked for a bit, then came home to work out. I didn't work out then, there wasn't enough time before dinner. The problem was I ate so much, I just had to walk it off. I walked it off right to Nate and Rachel's. I played with Cora, who was very excited to see me, and got her nice and hyped up before bed time. Nate loved that. While he tried to put her to bed I hung out upstairs with Rachel as she fed No...

I've done laundry (clean clothes!),  did research for my history project, made a new friend, packed for the track meet tomorrow, and somewhat worked on Spanish. So YAY! Besides that all I've done today is add three more blogs to the list of skier blogs that I now read and follow (6 blogs total). I've also started collecting different workouts from their blogs to incorprate into my training this summer. My coach wants me to increase my hours, and now I have knowledge of workouts that help professional skiers. I may have to tweak some of them see as to how I'm not quite as strong as them, but I shall do them and improve because of it!  I also became inspired to really chase my dreams because of my friend Patrick. This is what he wrote: People always say to “follow your dreams” but the truth is, I don’t think you can just follow them, you have to chase them down and tackle them to the grown. You’ll be tired, but it will be worth it. :) I also saw this one...

I expected  yesterday to suck, but from the moment I was awoken at 5 am it didn't suck. Why was I woken up so early? My mom wanted to tell me to turn my alarm off SCHOOL WAS CANCELLED on account of Thursday's snow storm or blizzard. I slept in, got to finish my book and eat breakfast! Who! Though I was still hoping to be able to go meet Jessie Diggins, but I knew it wouldn't happen. Aaannnddd it didn't, but at the end of the day I couldn't stop smiling anyways. My mom has this problem of taking pictures of me when I look terrible I spent the morning being lazy and not really doing anything, but the afternoon id a different story. My mom drove me out to Mt. Itasca (since I still can't drive even though I'm nearly 17) and we nearly got stuck. While Mt. Itasca may have been mostly groomed, no one had plowed the driveway. While I skied my mom did homework (she went back to school to get a higher degree for her job), and wow. The snow was hard, yet you cou...

Mother Nature must be in a terrible mood. Just today we've gotten 5-8 inches with more to come tonight. Wait a second *runs to window* fat flakes are still falling from the sky! Maybe I'll just keep this short and go skiing instead... Nothing special really happened today, but there was something that I wanted to share. I just can't remember what it was...I'll remember later! Well I found out that I won't be able to go tomorrow. It;s a real bummer cause I was really looking forwards to it. I mean really looking forward to it. I was so excited I couldn't sit in class! The fact that it's now an impossibility brings a sadness to my life. It'll pass by Saturday and it's not a true sadness. It's more of the fact that I can feel this great chance at something I might never get to do again, at meeting my idol, passing me by.  Oh well. Life's full of opportunity. Maybe one day this chance will come again and I'll be able to take full advantage ...

While I may have gotten to school late, wearing dirty sweatpants, hungry, and tired but the day turned out pretty well. Since there's still MCA testing going on and the most of the band has them first hour, we aren't doing anything. So while everyone else hung out in the big band room Calvin and I went into the smaller band room. He played with the percussion stuff and I took a nap.  Second hour History was nothing new. We were assigned a small group project and then he left for the rest of class. The project is to study Vietnam using our book, and History.com then to make a 25-30 slide power point on it, and afterwards we will be tested upon it.  In English I zoned out a lot, but it's okay we were just finishing up presentations and I still managed to take notes.  It's Wednesday so we had 3.5 hour, I read my book and somewhat paid attention to the video we were suppose to be watching. No ever pays attention in that class, it's a complete wast...

I would prefer to tell you this face-to-face, but seeing as you have no face and live within my own body, I see no chance of that happening anytime soon. Therefore it is with an ache in my chest that I write this to you. I am sorry, but we are different places in life. I will always remember the times we had together. I mean, who could forget the times you've had me doubled over, coughing as my lungs attempt to dispel you from my body causing you to become caught and tangled within my throat so I can no longer take in a breath. There's also the times where you, in anger with my lungs for trying to get rid of you, wrap your arms around my chest and squeeze with all your might. Just as you've done today. I would love to keep you here with me, but we really are in separate places in this life. I know, it sounds cliche and yet it rings true. You've changed since we first met. You now want to take the easy way in life. To sit back and watch all the good times ...

Today was an interesting day.  First off I was late for school again, and was freaking out because I thought MCAs were today. My morning was not fun. Secondly, freshmen and juniors have them today, so during band we did nothing. I opted to crawl behind percussion stuff and nap. Which is what I was doing when I FOUND MY SKI JACKET! Thirdly, when I got to history I realized that I had left my extra credit at home, my English that was all do today at home, and most of my biology at home. Oh, and my cell phone so I couldn't call home or anything, Not that my mom would bring my stuff anyways. This also served to remind me of the fact that I still can't drive. Then my day just went on to involve various forms of torture. Though the highlights of my day were: 1. Running with Bay then hitting the weight room. She's my best friend and when we get together it's bound to be adventurful and some one has to get hurt. In this case it was Bay. Two things...

Not on purpose either.  Around 630am this morning I crawled into bed. Well not really. I have homework all over my bed, so I had to crawl around it and squeeze myself into the corner, but it was bed nonetheless. My plan was to sleep for an hour, then shower, toss on some sweats and head out. Didn't quite go that way. I hadn't turned my alarm back on (I shut it off on the weekends) figuring my parent would either wake me up or I'd wake up to her and my younger brother screaming at each other. Instead I woke up half an hour ago to my radio informing listeners of the explosions at the Boston Marathon. At first I thought it had happened yesterday and it was still morning. Ya, no. I found that out when I went downstairs and my brother was dressed. He's never dressed until right before we leave, so I knew it wasn't morning. Looking at the clock helped too. My mom had the nerve to call me childish and say I'm throwing away my future. Really? I just spent the...

This one will be really long. I apologize  but we didn't get back until late on the third day and on day four left for the big island where our hotel charged for wifi. So instead you get one long post with all the pictures. Well not all the pictures, but most of them. Don't worry. It's mostly pictures and videos! Though I do apologize in advance for the poor video quality. Day the Third On this day we went to Pearl Harbor. I had been dreading this. Why? Well, because like most people I have fears, and one of those fears happens to be drowning. To me it's one of the worst ways someone could die. You know it's happening and it takes it's time. It's strange when you think about it. That I fear drowning yet spend as much time as possible seeing how far down I can go, how long I can hold my breath, how far out I can swim. Going out there I was scared. Not of drowning but of being so close to those who did.  my music While there we went into a subm...