Wellll since anon brought it up I guess I’ll post this now. Basically I’d like to get other people’s opinions on this. Since I suck at making decisions, it’s nice to get some other sides.

As you all know, I’ll be graduating this year and going on to college. And I’m sure you all also know that I’ve been plagued with injuries. I want to run track and cross in college. I actually plan on doing it. But I also am not sure if I should join the team my freshmen year. My senior year of running was nothing like I wanted it to be. Basically my legs are back in their freshmen stage because all of my times I’ve ran this year I ran freshmen year. I sort of believe that some of the reason I keep getting injured is because of the constant pounding of seasons I have. Even now I feel way burnt out. I feel as if my legs are not ready to tackle the brutal training of college. But also if I did run freshmen year, there would be a pretty huge chance that I would just be red-shirted because I’d be a walk on onto a D1 school and my times wouldn’t be fast compared to all the other colleges. Then again, I’m worried that if I don’t run then my intensity of training won’t be high enough and it will just hurt my whole college career. Oh and I guess like 10 seniors quit running this year because they also hated the coach. And that’s not a good sign. I would have a schedule to follow for the summer (my current coach has his from when he ran in college). And then I would just do a lot of open/road races when “cross country” season is around and I will be able to do open indoor track meets during the winter. Right now I would rather just run on my own and get the mileage and base I need for college running. But would that really be best for me? So the big question,

Do I run with the team my freshmen year of college or do I build up a base to get me ready for the other three years of college running?

Prom

Well yesterday we had regionals. All year we knew we were a contender and sort of an underdog going into to. The top 2 teams go to states. And guess what we got? Third. By 2 fricken points. Which sucks big time. I messed up my mile but my 4x800 and 800 went well. It was still really heartbreaking though.

Oh and Prom is today. And idk how I feel about that. I mean I don’t even know what the hell is going on. I’m not even that excited. But oh well. Hopefully it turns out to be as awesome as everyone says.

Hello everyone, I have some good news! I found myself a prom date!! Yesterday I hung out with her until she had to go to work. While she was at work I spelled out “Prom?” on her car with sticky notes so when she got out she would come out to it! I was also hiding in my car a few over with flowers and her favorite ice cream cone (we were going to meet after she worked to get it sooo that’s why!) But it went really well! It took forever to get the ice cream so I was freaking out and had to do the sticky notes in a hurry. So it wasn’t the prettiest but it was still good. Plus I didn’t get to put all my sticky notes on but oh well. She was really surprised and happy and her fellow employees thought it was really cute and they were cheering so that was cool! I had a thing with her a few years ago but didn’t date because I messed up and chose my ex over her, a decision I live to regret a lot. But we are still pretty good friends and it will be a lot of fun with her. So I’m really excited now!

My 1st Tumblrthday!

I’m excited to say that today is the anniversary of my blog! :) I made this April 25th, 2012 and I must say it was one of the best decisions of my life. This website has introduced me to people who have changed my life. And I am really grateful for every single one of my followers! xx I have made amazing friends on here, better than most I met in real life. There is so much I can say about the people on here but I told myself I wouldn’t make this obnoxiously long. So just know I really appreciate every single one of you and everything you have done for me. The motivation, support, and advice has been spot on and I couldn’t have done all that I have without you all. I really wish there was some way I could give back, but right now I can’t think of anything that is possible. But you have helped me change my life in such a positive way and I will never forget the people of Tumblr :) Thank you for all your love and support !

-Chris

Also thanks to Yong for the wonderful name idea of “tumblrthday”!

I got amazing news today :)

Today I was called down to the Athletic Directors office to talk to him about something. Getting called down to see him is always iffy because it usually means something with ineligibility or something of that sort. Anyway when I got down there our school’s best female runner was also sitting in his office. She is like perfect so I knew something good was up and got really excited. He informed me that I was my high school’s Scholar Athlete of the Year!!! Which is crazy awesome news which I’m really surprised about! I didn’t know they did this and him describing it makes it seem really prestigious. :) Basically they have this big formula that they do where like every varsity letter you get 10 points, every JV letter you get 3 points, they take your gpa and times it by 10, and add your ACT score to that. I think my score was like 158.73 and I had the highest score for our school! So now I get my name on this plaque in my school, I get to go to this lunch-in with other scholars athletes in the valley where you get like personal certificate and plaque! What’s even better is that the girl runner also got it for the females, so I get to spend all this awesome time with her and she’s awesome so it’s going to be an awesome time! :D It just feels so cool to get this though. I was kinda annoyed because my school does this whole “Oscars” thing and even though I had the most varsity letters out of anyone at my school and was a captain for every sport I played, I didn’t get nominated for “best male athlete”. All the stupid popular people did even though they play like one sport decently. So this kinda puts this in their face like HA the facts don’t like stupid people of my school. And what’s even better is this finally gave me a feeling of accomplishment for my parents. Like I actually feel like they are proud of me for once. So that was really nice. Either way, I am totally stoked and shocked about this! :) 

Oh I also had my callback interview for this job today and it went really well! I think the manager really liked me so I’m hoping for the best :)

AND I’m 2 followers away from hitting my next 100!

Today has been an awesome day :D

Honestly, I can’t wait until I am done with my competitive running stage and become a recreational runner. The idea of just running miles, without any crazy training plan or seasons sounds amazing. Being able to run just road races with friends and enjoy the company of fellow runners who aren’t worried about who is faster than who seems like such an awesome time. Even now I can’t run a half or full marathon because I am in constant training for either Cross or Track. Of course I’m not done with competitive running now, but when the day comes where I retire the spikes and I get to run what I want when I want, I will be happy.

ANother really ranty exgirlfriend post ahahaha

I am such a hypocrite because I hate so much of the teen population and how they act and I find them quite….dumb. But then again I’m basically that teenager who posts dumb stuff on twitter and usually talks like a teenager (refer to last ask answer as an example).

But at the same time I can act and think like a scholar when need be. A lot of my thoughts are like that, actually. I can write some deep stuff if I get in the zone but only when I get there.

So basically I am stuck in the phase of being a teenager and adult by thinking like an adult but going about everything still as a teenager. Idk it was just something I was thinking about while I cleaned my room please go back about your business this was a silly post by me

I just got back from the musical my school put on and it is just amazing how well they do! I went to my first one last year and they are just so cool! I really love watching them :) I don’t understand how they remember all of their lines so well, I  would have such a hard time doing that I think. I also love how into it they are. You can really tell they love what they are doing and they just have fun with it. I basically see it as an art, just like how I see running. Except this is where they are the expert artists. The whole thing just makes me so happy that I’m pretty sure I smiled the whole time. They make it so funny too! The personalities come out and it’s just awesome! I really wish I could personally tell them all how much I appreciate the whole thing and how awesome it is. They deserve so much praise for it! So I guess this is my message to them kinda. My school does awesome musicals and plays. All the kids in it are just so skilled it’s awesome. Their passion for it is awesome. The whole thing is just…AWESOME!!

Spending my Friday night with my favorite people aka my followers because you all make sense ;) but seriously.

Also track starts Monday so I’m thinking Prefontaine and Without Limits every night this weekend to get me pumped! Woo!!!!!

I made a new “Your World of Text” thing too because the original one was getting crammed! I still have the other one of course, this new one just has a 2 at the end of the url :) So feel free to write me your beautiful words, thoughts, ideas!!!

http://www.yourworldoftext.com/adistancerunner2

Running story of the day

It’s more like a fail. So prepare yourself. I’ll try to make this as short and painless (for me) as possible.

So I decided to go for a run. I got all my gear on. When I went to get Victoria from my computer it turns out she was dead (I don’t know why because she was plugged in all night but whatever she does her own thing she doesn’t need no man). So I was like whatever, I’ll just run the usual path I do for my 6 miles and just use my ipod to time myself to get an overall pace.

So that’s that. Nothing bad right? During my run I decide to use the lap feature on the stopwatch to try and get a general idea how my pace varied throughout the run. So I would just hit lap when about 7 minutes was up and I was at a main intersection so I could remember where I hit it (so I could get the pace from one point to the next). All is going good for my run ok, I’m just cruisin down main street with my kicks. Well I’m just about done, maybe .6 miles away from home ok. I get stopped at the stop light so I stop my stopwatch. I think “oh I’m going to pick up the pace for this last bit so I’ll hit lap again to get my pace for the final push”. I go to his lap….

AND NO ONE TOLD ME THAT THE LAP BUTTON CHANGES TO THE RESET BUTTON WHEN YOU STOP THE CLOCK.

I go and click the button without thinking. Because that button has said lap the whole run. I touch it. And ALL MY DATA IS GONE. No more overall time. No more lap time. Just 0:00.0. Like are you kidding me I didn’t go through all that effort for nothing. Well actually I guess I did. So the only time I got was that last push, which by the way was 3:13.8. So that is that.

Lesson learned; don’t cheat on Victoria.