Tuesday - 3 mi and Gym
Wednesday - Swim
Thursday - 3 mi and Gym
Ok my entries have been kind of pathetic lately. I was about to write the same thing as I've been writing the last week or so. Foam Roller, will I or won't I get better, blah blah blah. I'll spare you for today.
For the Brown folks (and KT if she ever manages to navigate the world wide web and find my blog), I got to hang out with KT for a bit this past saturday. It was quite fabulous. We went to my fav breakfast joint and chatted it up. I got all the gossip from NY and she got no gossip from me because I am not that exciting. :-P Anyhoo, it always brightens my day to talk to and especially to SEE one of my '05 ladies :) and despite the fact that I had to work that afternoon, I was in quite the good mood.
So a LONG time ago I had a convo with Jilane about how work was getting in the way of my life. And hanging out with KT and mulling over that conversation made me really miss college. I spent so much of it worrying about one thing or another and I realize now how much i had it made. College was absolutely wonderful. I ran, I learned, I hung out with friends, and I got free coffee for working for BUDS. Ok I get free coffee now but I have to work all day to earn it so it doesn't count. I miss having theme parties every weekend. I miss going to the ratty in anticipation of what crap they were going to serve that night. I miss the fact that every weekend something absolutely ridiculous happened and spending sunday morning's run gossiping about it. I miss going to the library right after dinner and then chatting with the team instead of studying, then going to Jo's to eat a whole bunch of crap before going to the dorm to watch a whole bunch of crap on TV. I miss spending hours in the training room rolling and icing, I miss away meets in NY and Boston, I miss per diem, I miss all the inside jokes, I miss bitching for an entire run about being cold and yes, i even kinda miss the bun huggers ;)
Ok, that's all I got for now.
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Oceanside Turkey Trot 5K - Thanksgiving 2010
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
Julie Sawyer
Places I've Been
Canada (Victoria), Mexico, Iceland, France (Paris, Versailles and Nice), Netherlands (Amsterdam), Germany (Berlin and Munich), Switzerland (Interlaken), Italy (Rome, Florence, Venice, Pisa), Spain (Madrid and Barcelona), UK (London), Scotland (Edinburgh, Isle of Sky, Ben Nevis), Denmark (Copenhagen), Sweden (Malmo), Austria (Vienna), Ireland (Galway and Dublin), Thailand (Bangkok, Chang Mai, Phuket, Ko phi phi, Koh Tao), Indonesia (Jakarta and Bali), Malaysia (Kuala Lampur), Japan (Tokyo), Jamaica, Greece (Athens, Mykonos, Santorini, Crete).
Races I've Run
Personal Bests
18:05
Scripps Ranch 10K - July 4, 2010
37:44
Las Vegas Rock and Roll Half Marathon - December 5, 2010
1:24:14
5 comments:
I FEEL THE EXACT SAME WAY.
very nostalgic blog post julie! brought back many memories of my own from the college days. speaking of sunday morning run gossip sessions...we used to play this game called "red rover, red rover." you may have heard of it if you were cool in elementary school. anyway, on our sunday long runs we would split up into 2 groups. one group would run on one side of the road and the other group would run on the other. the way the game works is, if you knew of some exciting gossip involving a member of the team on the other side of the road, you would say, "red rover, red rover, please send the person that (fill in your debaucherous act) right over!" then that person would have to cross the street and come over to the group that called him out. always fun exposing people's debauchery! on a side note, i now call my call red rover. fitting i think.
this brings me to my second point. if you've reviewed my quote section on facebook you will notice the following quote,
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be."
Not saying that college wasn't a blast, but i think it's true that as time passes, we think of our past experiences better than they actually were at the time. maybe we are just becoming more enlightened or maybe we just forget how difficult the past actually was. anyway, the point is, maybe the present isn't so bad after all. maybe in 10 years you'll look back and think, "damn, my mid 20's rocked! wish i could have them back." live in the present! don't regret the past! be grateful you no longer have homework! it's the same way with past presidents. it always seems their approval ratings increase from the point they depart office to the present.
fyi - i decided im going to trump each of your blog post with my comment below your post. people will eventually just come to read my comment. sorry.
I'm pretty sure your comments were actually longer than my original post. Perchance I have become your muse? My Response:
So how often were you called over to the other side in Red Rover? I want to hear those stories instead of ones of you getting hit in the head by a baseball.
While I agree with your comments regarding living in the past, I believe that one can still reflect fondly on the past while still enjoying the present, especially since it is our past experiences who make us who we are today. And while I do indeed miss the days of college, I know there is no way I could go back to that lifestyle now. Let's be honest, I wouldn't last a month of theme parties till 3AM followed by hungover 12 mile runs. I think I'd barely survive a weekend. So no, I can't go back, don't want to go back, and am super happy with where I am in my life now, but I'll always cherish those memories and miss those times.
Get your own blog. :-P
i tried to avoid the red rover call out. my debauchery was more covert. people rarely got the scoop on me. so, i'm not so sure i'm going to just bust out all my stories on your blog site. maybe after a few beers you can get me to start rambling. even then i will deny when confronted after the fact.
can you please enlighten me on how wearing bun huggers in the past made you the person you are today??? just curious.
i think you should add my name to this blogspot so it's more reflective of the contributions actually made.
You know that saying "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger"?
Well you try wearing essentially just underwear and run 6K all out in below 40 degree weather and tell me that didn't make you a little bit more tough at the end of the day.
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