Skiing tomorrow!

First day of the season... it's about time. I just got my ski/winter stuff out of storage. I wouldn't have bothered if I didn't need to get my skis. Because I had to get them, I pulled all my holiday decorations out. I spent all evening decorating my house. Don't know why, but I just love the way holiday lights shine.

8.13

I finally managed to get out and complete a longer run. My knee has been disagreeing with me lately, so I'm excited that I actually got it done. Of course, it was painfully slow, but such is life. Tomorrow is Incline Thursday. I'll have to do that early in the day so that I can enjoy my turkey.

Getting back into it

And it's about time, too. So I think that I've finally figured out my next two major goals. Both of them will be incredibly time consuming, but good for me. My MCAT is on Jan 31. And I think I'm going to run the Austin Marathon on Feb 15. If I complete the Marathon in under 5:30, I can qualify for the Pikes Peak Marathon.

It's funny. I'm not sure which of these things is going to be harder. Both will certainly take a lot of training and time. I like the combination of physical and mental challenge. Hopefully, my RA agrees with my goals and lets me keep working toward them. I can only play it by ear. I'm planning out my workout & study schedule tomorrow. That will be a challenge in itself.

Biomechanics of Running

I'm working on a presentation about the biomechanics of running and searching for great running photos. If you have any, please post them for me! While digging for good photos to put in my ppt slides, I came across this one. I just like it.


Start of the 2008 Pikes Peak Marathon

Senior Seminar

I'm giving a presentation as part of my degree requirements for this seminar class. I picked this Tuesday as my date to present, because I had no exams scheduled. So what does my prof do? He schedules an additional one for Monday. So now, instead of prepping for this presentation, I get to spend my weekend studying crap-tons of material as well! Woohoo! I guess things are back to normal.

So much, so little.

So much has been happening in my life and yet there is so little that I want to talk about. Hopefully that will change this weekend. I need a good run or go ski or something. Off to P-Chem. Again, not something interesting to talk about.

Ooooh, I did finally sign up for the MCAT again. Jan 31. That's scary, but exciting. Of course, the fact that I spend half my time listening to MCAT audio study cds is quite boring.

It's so strange...

I don't have any papers to grade or any exams to prep for. I feel... lost. I don't know what to do with myself... I KNOW! I'll study physics! YEAH.