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August 28, 2007
O's livin' the life of a bachelor......yeah right!
Hi all, this is O filling in for Beth while she's in Germany. It's a little before 9pm and she's 3 hours into her trip somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. As for me and the pooch, we're holding down the fort while Beth's gone.
So I'm (not) living it up now that Beth's gone. Here's what I've done so far:
3:00 - end of the school day; off to cross country practice
5:30 - cross country practice; leave to come home
6:30 - feed Roxy the pooch and eat dinner (pizza, of course)
7:30 - mow the grass.
9:00 - eat a bowl of ice cream and write Beth's blog entry
If you think that's exciting, wait until tomorrow when I detail my exciting night of grocery shopping and doing laundry!!!!!
On a more relevant note, my softball season ended last night with my team winning the championship. I play in an adult men's fastpitch softball league with 5 teams. There used to be 20 teams back in the 80's. I guess people are more busy these days. I'm glad the season's over so my body can heal from the pitching and collisions--that way I'll be more fresh for running.For all of you one or two people who read Beth's running blog AND are softball fans, you can check out the details here.
Speaking of running, my alumni XC meet a few saturdays ago didn't go exactly how I expected. Place-wise, I finished in 8th place behind 2 alumni runners (both run in college currently) and 5 varsity guys. That I was satisfied with. However, the time was a different story. There had been a lot of rennovations at my high school as they updated the sports facilities over the last 5 years. With these changes, they had to change the XC course.
The old course (which Beth thought was really dull when she ran there as "the enemy") consisted of two laps on the track, a loop up a hill and around a water tower, another lap on the track, another lap up and around the water tower, then a 200 on the track to the finish. The new course was all on the upper plateau near the water tower--but now in the woods. This new course may as well have been called a trail run. It consisted of two laps around in the woods. It was brutal!!! The winning time was in the low 18's (when the top two guys run in the 16's on a normal cross country course) for 3.0 miles--not even a full 5k!!
After training with my high school guys all summer, I was pumped and expected to be in the high 18's or low 19's. But, based on the winning time, you can see I didn't accomplish this goal. My time--20:33. Ugh! I told you it was a brutal course!
When I hear from Beth, I'll be sure to pass along some info to you. Check out the links from Beth's previous blog a few days ago for race updates and about the "my story" that she'll have published. Beth's story isn't up yet, but story #2 is an amazing story about a woman from Canada who was rear-ended while driving a car (among other tragedies and trials) and now competes in the disability division. This woman sure has persevered a lot.
Good night and have a great Wednesday!
O
Posted by beth at August 28, 2007 8:43 PM
Comments
Hi O! great update. you have enough of your own sports adventures you need a blog too!
Posted by: Audrey at August 28, 2007 10:17 PM
Hi O!
Posted by: Meghan at August 28, 2007 10:43 PM
I'm so excited that we get guest entries from O. Keep them coming! (Can't wait to hear about the groceries and laundry...almost as exciting as MY life.)
Posted by: Alison at August 29, 2007 8:51 AM
How about this - me commenting on my blog!! First of all, I take no responsibility if I spell things wrong - these keyboards here are funky!
Anyway, thanks for the update O! You are going to have to write more often!!
Posted by: Beth at August 29, 2007 10:46 AM
How about this - me commenting on my blog!! First of all, I take no responsibility if I spell things wrong - these keyboards here are funky!
Anyway, thanks for the update O! You are going to have to write more often!!
Posted by: Beth at August 29, 2007 10:46 AM