OH today has been such a beautiful day. Nice sun all day long and in the 70's the entire day. How glorious is that? Its awesome! I went and got my Trek Bike all fixed up today, Thank you Tyler Bursten!!! I love my bike, its like riding on wind, but I feel out of shape riding such a good bike and not averaging above 16 mphs. oh well, I have all summer until the Cross country tri-athalon.
okay for anyone who runs track aka- 3 people this part is for you. On thursday we had our JV conference meet and i told brogs i wanted to run in it so he said he would try to put me in it. Well as luck would have it, Nick ashenden had his name written in earlier in the week but told brogs on monday he couldn't race because of drivers ed so i was going to the meet to run his 800 for him. I was so excited. Then we arrive at that godforsaken track (seriously there were 8 lanes for only 100 meters, then 6 lanes the rest of the way) whats up with that, and there are these patches of unbelievably hard black crap. Running on that hurt like hell. But anyway I get there and check out the sheet for heats of 800's, and alas no nick ashenden running!!! I went insane. I ran over to brogs and told him about it, and he promised me he would take care of it, so he walked up to the press box (where they announce and hold the sheets with people running on it) and told them they had left nick ashenden out but a mr. Jeffrey wagner was actually running in the race now. So they put me in. come my 800 meter run time, i walk over to the ref and wow he does'nt announce me name and im not on his list. I look over at brogs and he comes on over. He talks with the ref and they put me in the fast heat (yea go me) and so i walk on up to the starting blocks and they are in a rush to get the meet over with so we don't even get time to take our sweats off. We get there and almost instantly they say sweats off, line up. WE get in our positions, which were 2 people per lane!!! WE had 12 people in our heat, thats way too many for a 6 lane 800. gun goes off and off we all go. Since I was in lane 6 i got off in the lead, but by the 100 meter mark i was in 4th, never a good sign. The guy in my lane however was so stupid instead of waiting for the ref to come up to cut in he did it almost immediately, i was happy for the idiot when he was dominated. So we go around the track on lap 1, I felt pretty good at this point and my time wasn't that bad for the first 400 considering how long it had been since i ran last, 67 second first lap. 5th place. so the 2nd lap began, and this lap was bad. I could tell it was bad because with a mere 300 meters left to go i was out of gas. Not my lungs i mean, but my legs. I have never had so much pain in my legs before in my life!!! I thought I was running properly, but every step I took my legs utterly ached. both legs too, not just my right one anymore. When we reach the 200 meter mark i can hear guys approaching me from behind. As we come out on the last 100 meters I can see the guys right next to me. They both pass me up and no matter how hard I tried to tell my legs to sprint they couldn't do it, I didn't know if i could even finish. So I cross the line in 8th place overall and get a mere one point with a time of 2:21. I am pissed. I sucked. brogs walks over and says don't run ever again until that limp is gone, you looked terrrible. Then later on that night on the bus ride home kriegel calls me limpy and tells me that i will completely destroy my legs if i try to run on them anymore with that limp, so he "advised" me to take time off and fix it. I came home completely ashamed. My time sucked, it was 1 second slower then my PR this season already and that was at an indoor meet. In some ways I wish i hadn't tried, but then again who knows what would have happened had I not tried at all, maybe right now I would be writing a post wondering just how i would have done.
I can't wait for summer, all that i want to do is go outside and enjoy myself, run and bike like crazy. Thats all. go and hang out with everyone I met this year all my new and old friends. Hopefully we can all hang out this summer, do who knows what but anything so long as its legal and fun. But opal, eileen, kara, and lauren you have to race me in the crop walk next fall... pwease.
As for anyone interested in doing Cross country, we have summer practices at 9 (at night). and they are awesome. Every tuesday, thursday, and sunday we meet as a massive group, and run around Grafton. Its so cool because at night everything is amazing, and running down the Cedarburg bike path at night all you can see are the fire flies going along with you, its the coolest thing on the planet. Talk to me if you want to come and run, you don't even have to be in cross country to come, any person can come and run along with us, heck we had some random old lady run with us last summer, that was pretty weird cause she stuck her dog on us but oh well, it was fun.
Am I the only one who feels like the teachers are completely piling on the homework and projects right now? Like they just realized last week they have only 2 weeks until exams and now are trying to cram down every inch of learning they can, while at the same time yelling and getting pregnant (stupid sumner). Then Mr. Gajewski is losing more hair, and Profe is nice and lets us play random games in class. durst knocks loose his arm (unfortunately his brain was knocked loose a long time ago), becker continues to give CPR to manicans and unfortunate children who faint in his health class (aka- losers like me). Sumner certainly last and most definietly the least, should be fired for being a moron, i had to tell her what 16 times 2 equals. how embarassing is that? the only advantage to having sumner as a teacher is that you know over summer you can't lose any of what you learned because you haven't learned anything.
good luck runners in Regionals and Alumni runners.
Jeffy
