I have a weird little obsession. : /

Today I was running behind Andy Ashenden and we were on the bike path out near the Mequon Pool and since it was basically the flatest terrain ever I was getting really bored with looking around. So I went back to doing something I almost always do during a race. I watched the legs of the runner in front of me. It's probably not a very good thing to do since it means you aren't looking ahead very far and hence not really pushing yourself, but I find it to help me get my mind off the actual task of running. But then I noticed how when you watched a runners legs when they were in front of you, the motion was so fluid. All the muscles in their leg on the ground would crumple up into a ball as the foot released and then it would come up and back and hang their until falling back down. It was just amazing to watch. I don't know why but I find it to be such an amazing sight. Like I know it really doesn't make any sense. But the way the whole system works, it really is rather fascinating. It's a whole system working together, the muscles starting at the bottom working all the way up to the top, really its just a big system of contracting muscles. But on the outside it looks so much more then that, its a sleek system of floating. Cause really thats what running technically is. Its temporarily leaving the ground only to land again just to fly again. Really it's amazing. I just hope that tomorrow I don't get so caught up in the whole idea that I lose focus on my race. I really want to earn that stupid varsity letter which eluded me last year by only 18 seconds (ohh the rage). Now I am on varsity already and I am determined to earn my letter tomorrow or die trying.
so in short good luck tomorrow all my fellow runners. Lauren, Abby, Hillary, Ben, Lucas, Alex, Andy, Nick, Steven, Andrew; good luck everyone.
Only think of two things - the gun and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell until you break the other. ~Sam Mussabini
Tough times don't last but tough people do

KJ