The pics of a lifetime

Best pictures of brogs and kriegs on the planet!!

I think they are in LOVE

This is what life is all about

THANKS A HUGE LOAD LAUREN!!!

Hey you!! Yea im talking to you.

The power to succeed is in the hands of one person and one person only, and thats you, the person in your head, that voice which tells you every morning what clothes to wear, and what socks to put on which foot. Other then the fact that most people talk with that voice (ha admit it you do, then after that go and admit yourself to a hospital for people like yourself) (the people there are very nice), its the thing to follow. Listen...

KEEP YOUR HEART IN THE RACE
Its so hard to keep going
When your lungs hurt and your legs ache
But don't give up
Your almost there
Keep your mind on the goal
Keep your heart in the race
All those long hours
Make them worth while
All those early practices
All those late night workouts
They brought you here today
Now show em what you've got
Show em your not afraid
Show em you're one tough ass runner
KEEP YOUR HEART IN THE RACE!

Some advice everyone can follow...

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but you think you can't, its almost a cinch you won't. If you think you'll lose, you've lost. For out in the world you find success begins with a fellow's will...It's all in the State of Mind. If you think you're outclassed, you are; You've got to think high to rise; You've got to be sure of yourself before you can ever win a prize. Still many a race is lost before ever a step is run; and many a coward fails before ever his work's begun. Think big and your deeds will grow; Think small and you'll fall behind; Think that you can and you will... It's all in the STATE OF MIND. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man (woman too), too soon or late the man (or woman) who wins is the person who Thinks They Can

What on earth is with this picture?

What is up with this picture??? This is supposedly what scientests think out universe looks like from outside the universe... yea thats weird, cause last time i checked there is nothing outside the universe, the universe kinda consumes all space, well unless you consider heaven, but i don't think heaven takes up spacial matter nor has density, hmm thats a tough spot. Well either way this picture is the infra-red image of the galaxy (a computer simulation), so tell me what you think about it. Its pretty nifty, but also looks like the most stupidly pointless picture I may have ever seen.

Title: "There is no spoone" Courtesy: The Matricks

This people is our planet, the planet we have grown up on, the planet which we survive upon and call home. Now im not one to go all lovey dovey, save the earth, don't touch trees and such, but think that this planet has to sustain our children, and our childrens children don't we want them to see the planet that we see, live the life we live. Don't we want that for our own flesh and blood??!!! Do what you can to preserve this planet which has sustained us for thousands of years. in 2000 years we want our future to be able to see that sunrise and set just as we have been able to...

(from the title)That was from a web site on my profile. Its quite an interesting web site, i would suggest looking it up, but the thing is that most people who see this can't handle swearing so i don't recommend it to you, you people being Nick, Lauren, Kara, Eileen, and obviously Aman because he is a sweet innocent child (haha...ha). Okay first a summary of the past couple days, because everyone most obviously cares about the intricate details of my life. Let me see, Monday was spent running at 9 in the morning in the most unbearable heat on a measly bank run (24 minutes baby!! PR) and that was pitiful. Then the afternoon I went and played baseball and established a rage for Coach Kiefer that will never be relinquished. Tuesday kinda was a useless day, I wasted 24 hours of living I do believe. Wednesday ahhh what a glorious day it was... The guys (being me, andy ashenden, lucas pfaffenroth, alex wiz, and ben connard) met at 9 in the morning to go for a run. Well we decided we didn't want to go running in the morning so we went to go and lift weights in the weight room, however jump start kinda owned the weight room and had billions of people in there so we stood no chance of lifting. So seeing as how 3 of the 5 guys lived within 1 block of the high school we decided to go biking (my bike was there, and lucas borrowed nicks bike) and the 5 amigos were off. We took the bike path out to the mequon pool and saw coach brogelman out there!!! he was teaching life guards how to perform CPR on the manicans, that was a worth a good laugh. When he saw us he walked on over, and asked us "what are you hooligans doing out here?" Good times brogs good times. Whats really cool is he told us 5 that anytime we were to show up at the mequon pool with him working there he would let us in for free!!! he is a manager there after all, but that was sweet!!! Now we are planning on holding our own triahalons using the pool, and the bike path. How intense. Then later in the day I went with my mom to do the only shopping i enjoy, running shoe shopping, and i learned that basically i was born with weird shaped legs so when i run all of the stress that my body takes from hitting the ground goes straight to my bones and doesn't go through any of the naturaly collection points the body has... so basically for a year straight my legs withstood that abuse, they were actually amazed my bones lasted that long. so i got some new shoes which should help the problem and i will get physical therapy and the whole 20 yards, sounds like a blast to me :) . Then later on that night i met back up with the guys, and we went for our run on the day... At this point i would like to add that I thought we were doing a 30 minute run on the night, I didn't know that andy planned to run into downtown cedarburg and back to the high school.. so out of the 5 of us, 3 of us were stupid (andy, lucas, and I) and we ran all the way into downtown cedarburg and back. I have never been so sore before in my life. When i got home my stomach was so cramped I couldn't bend, let alone move, about a 7 mile run in 42 minutes and 45 seconds. Not bad time wise just long, omgsh was it long. Aman, wiz, and ben were smart and cut it short, not by much but they stayed in grafton. Nick well lets just say he kept his within the short parts of the village. then tonight I saw a movie with nick that i have already seen but it was good, quality time with a very good friend. So yea thats the update. And now I think I might end with that because I don't want to leave aman waiting to read this very exciting post.

Funny E-mail

This is an e-mail my mom received, I thought it was hilariously funny, more so because I'm a blonde, so read it and have a few laughs. Laughing is good for you after all.

Dear Diary,

Last year I replaced all the windows in my house with those expensive double-pane energy- efficient kind, but this week I got a call from the contractor, complaining his work had been completed a year ago and I had yet to pay him for them.

Boy oh boy, did we go around and around! Just because I'm a blonde does not mean I'm automatically stupid. So I proceeded to tell him just what his fast-talking sales guy had told me last year- that in one year the windows would pay for themselves.

There was silence on the other end of the line, so I just hung up. I have not heard anything back. Guess I won that stupid argument.


:)jeffy

So much to learn from a banana

I ate a banana today, and while i was eating that banana I started to think about how much a banana resembles a real person. think about how closely related the two are. There is the skin or outside of a person which is where all the heart and tissue is. But then there is the inner part, the fruit on the inside. The soul of a banana if you will. The weird thing about a banana is that you have to peel the skin off to get to the good stuff of the banana. All of the nutrients, all of the energy, everything needed to grow and become a better human from that banana comes from the inner fruit. so too is it with humans. We don't become better humans through someone elses skin, we become better people through other peoples relationships with us. Why can't we peel back the outer aspects of others and look at the inside?? why are we so blind to the fruit growing around in other people?? why am i myself so blind to that? I hope that as everyone who reads this grows up and matures they can learn to see the inner core of people and learn to throw away the outer shell.

summer rocks!!

So far in what 5 days of summer I can say its been amazing, awesome. Although today our frosh baseball game completely failed, we lost 10-2. and i pitched the entire thing, hmm i feel like a failure. but on the good side cross country practice started so thats good.
Last night there was a no fire bonfire at laurens house, that was fun. I tried to do cart wheels and idk a roll out or something like that; I can say with confidence I am not a gymnast, nor am I coordinated at anything related to flips/rolls.
I discovered that Laurens dad is actually a nice guy, he tried to scare me at first then helped me coordinate a small practical joke on her :). Then there were the races on the grass. Lauren put on her spikes and still couldn't win, we call that bush league around here. Very bush league. Nick actually outran her, i was pretty shocked by that, he has gotten faster then I thought he was.
Stay in touch everyone, more parties like Laurens and Lucas's would be awesome. If you ever want to come over and play xbox live just let me know and you can. Or if you want to go biking or whatever just tell me and I can guarantee you that we will; almost guarantee you. We have to stay in touch and make this summer fun, because just sitting around is not going to be fun. Anybody interested in doing something like thursday or friday this week? I have no baseball games really, so we should be good. Let me know please.
Have a good un'.

He who runs the fastest, just so happens to beat the rest

I actually made up that quote, i thought it sounded cool, very obvious but then again its harder to remember that when running the actual race. Sometimes when I go around the track I feel like Im not moving at all, for some reason that finish line just doesn't seem to come any closer, the turn seems to become longer, and my legs just feel like solid lead. I will never understand those moments, they just randomly come about; I wonder if anyone else has them....
today I was talking with lauren moroder about running cross country and i kept saying all of these things to her about how hard it is and how difficult the practices were, and i started realizing to myself just how much I miss cross country. Of all the sports in high school that I have done, cross country is by far the one i enjoy the most. Its an individual sport yes, but we are such a small team that you get a close and inter personal bond with each member of the squad. It is actually amazing just how much you can enjoy others while running with them. I have had perhaps the weirdest conversations of my life while running with aman or loco, or possibly smeagal only he never ran with me. But the other thing i realized while talking to lauren is that I never really thought about just how hard cross country really was. Somedays I know i asked myself why do i put myself through all of this? the answer simply is- I love doing it, the feeling of running in the open air with the wind in my face is one i can't replace with anything else. The sound of the gun going off on a fair green golf course with the sun rising in your face is an amazing feeling, honestly no sport can match cross country in its joys and pains. After telling lauren about how the first week of practice is literally the worst week of it all, I remembered just how challenging it at times was, i pushed myself to my absolute limits and I created brand new ones. Ones which I still haven't explored fully. Its just proof that you have no limits in running, the only ones you have are the ones you place in front of yourself. the most important day is today and no one can take that feeling away!!!!

For anyone going to state next year

After I heard about how the Grafton Boys did at state this past weekend (3rd place with 31 points i do believe), I have been itching for cross country to start so I can have a shot at state myself. Seeing Nate, Chris, Tyler, Kris, and Andy all go to state and excel are huge inspirations to me in my running career. I so badly want to be a part of the state travelling team next season and will train my heart out to get there. Also all of these Penn Relays pictures and all of the stories I have heard about Penn make me want to race there so bad I would give up a kidney to go!! Oh its unbearable to think that I have at least 3 months until the next racing opportunity.
Still I want to say congrats to all of the boys who ran at state this year, you guys did amazing, and even though you will never read this; you have inspired me to become a better runner. Someday I hope to be able to match your accomplishments and maybe even challenge them.
For any fellow track or cross country runner who may read this, we have to step up because now that this senior class is leaving, a majority of our phenomenal athletes are leaving as well. Lets create our own tradition of excellence and hopefully we will have our own records on the walls someday soon...
Good luck on the exams everyone, be sure to enjoy your summer, and of course train hard.

effort is critical

In these last days before exams we all need to remember that school isn't over, I know its done homework wise, but exams are huge and to slack now could be a huge mistake. Everyone just keep it up and soon we will be enjoying the summer time soon enough.

"Because to give anything less than your best is to misuse the gift."

good luck everyone on finals and enjoy this last couple days of time together. i shall miss you all, and please don't fall out of contact over summer, it really sucks to have a boring summer. Make it fun for everybody.

Live. Learn. Experience. Fail. Succeed. What do these words mean to you?

Who knew running could be so hard???

Today we ran our mini track meet in gym, it was insane. I love to run and since I haven't run in forever I wanted to give this mini meet everything I had. I even put on my spikes with spikes in them.
When we went outside for our warm up run of a lap and half I went out way way way too hard. I ran that lap and a half in 1:47. Way too fast. My first 400 was a 65, what was i thinking? The only advantage to that was that i had plenty of time to strectch while waiting for the entire class to finish.
So then Kalina starts off the 100 meter dash, not nearly my best race nor my favorite one but a fun one nonetheless. The only people in my class who i feel at all threatened by on the track field are brandon smart and mike kalies, smart sat out the 100's but mike of course ran those. Mike and I ended up being the only two even competing out there because everyone else was slow.
First we did the trials and i was placed right next to mike and he burned me pretty good, maybe half a second or so, not cool. Then we come on back down and line up for the finals, remember 2 minutes of rest between this thats all; now in the finals its dustin studelska, zach zellner, andy collins, miles mayer, mike kalies, and I. Kalina has us go off and almost from the start it wasn't even a race, mike and i left everyone behind us, but mike beat me by maybe a step and a half. That sucked but he is a sprinter and is faster then me so what can i say. Give him credit cause hes fast.
Then right after that the 4 X100 meter relay. Smart took me on his team and I went off and anchored it. Mike sat this event out. We started off with matt king and 3rd place, miles got us up to 2nd and then on the handoff between him and smart it was perfect, we did all of ours blind handoffs instead of turning around to grab the bataan, shaves a full second off of each leg of the race, and smart absolutely destroyed the leaders at that point and gave it to me with a full 30 meter lead. I went pretty hard to the finish but not all out, we won by over 60 meters. That was crazy, all cause of smarts amazing hand off and speed in his leg.
Then with 3 minutes rest I go off to do the 400 with Smart and Julie Koch and i don't know the other girl. All I know is they sucked. We line up and head off, Kalina is timing us and I let smart take an early lead cause i figure I will burn him in the last 100 cause I can outsprint him. However all those 100's with no rest had taken a huge toll on my entire body, I was completely dehydrated, and my legs felt like jelly. so as we came up to the 200 mark, I came around him on the outside but I wasn't able to really kick it in and ended up losing by almost a full second
quite disappointing. smart ran a 58 and i ran a 58.92. I was very mad at myself for not winning but I have to give him credit for running a smart and good race. It was fun I hope we do this every year.
The girls didn't fare so bad in our class really, or maybe more like Miss. Wilsing's class because they at least tried in hers. Eileen did pretty good, and the soccer girls didn't do that bad either. I think though that by far the girls who did the best would be either molly pfaffenroth or lauren moroder just because of their speed and experience on the track team. Who knows maybe they beat some of the guys.

running is the bomb Im glad im back :) :)