"The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph" -Thomas Paine

Today the national weather service issued a heat wave advisory, meaning the heat index is up to 110...plus it is so damn humid running is nearly impossible. I've run through a hurricane so I'll face almost any type of weather, but heat stroke is not cool, especially when you can get heat stroke from running at 10 at night.

Fun fact of the week, in 4 days I will be leaving florida for colorado springs and the air force academy. not a bad change in weather, though I will be going through basic tr… Continue

So today I went on a 7 mile run on some dirt roads (because panama city doesn't have ANY trails). I was running past some random house and a couple of dogs come running out to the road. I sped up a little because I though, like most dogs, they would just chase me until I was out of their territory. But instead of barking or chasing me they just ran with me. For 6 miles. It was an out and back course so they stopped when I got back to their house but I was pretty happy to have a couple of running… Continue

My high school running career has finally come to an end.

I placed 6th at regions, running a 4:33 mile. I felt pretty good after it and I'm sure I could have gone faster and advanced...but I didn't. First lap was in 67 seconds, I was in about 4th place. Second lap no one really pushed at all so it was a 69. At the start of the third lap the clusterfuck started. Everyone and their mother surged. I tried to speed up with them but got boxed in around the first bend. I went from fourth to 9th place… Continue

So tomorrow is the district track meet, and it's kind of a big deal. Top 4 from each event advance to the regional meet, top 4 at regions advance to the state meet. So this is the first step on the path to success. Unfortunately it is one hell of a big step.

I run the mile and the 2 mile. In the mile we have a kid who runs a 4:15, a kid who runs a 4:20 and a kid who runs a 4:30. I run a 4:35 so that doesn't give me much leeway in case I missed someone who would come and kick my ass. The 2 mile… Continue

I know there was big debate about whether runners listened to music while running. I used to be anti-music, but today for my long run I was rockin' out to some hardcore shit. All that remains, bullet for my valentine, underoath and so on. I ran 12 seconds slower than my half marathon pr on a 13.1 mile course. Thats 6:19 a mile, averaging 5:57 the second half with no rest. Thats pretty damn fast for a training run, i don't care who you are. I think I might start running to music some of the time… Continue