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| Seems as though I am at a crossroads in my life. I can choose one way, the way of continuing a belief in God and choosing to follow Christ for the entirety of my life...or I can choose the more worldly perspective. Compelling arguments both ways, believe me. I go back to the knowledge of what choice would lead to the most amount of joy and happiness. The choice is an obvious one, clearly. Why then, is it so damn hard?
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| Why do I wait so long to update? I dunno. Since I last wrote I have ran two races, shot more lasers than I care to remember, and have begun dating a girl. Life seems to be on the up and up. It is how it goes I suppose. Life is made up of many events, which are arbitrarily perceived as "good" or "bad", that are continuously intertwined to form an infinitely complex series of said events, which are recorded in our minds as "memories".
The world can be an evil and cruel place, for sure. I have had an idea for a while, an idea of having two opposing sides fighting (say, liberals vs conservatives), so that they basically ignore the bigger picture so that a greater force can control and conquer. Turns out this idea is known as Hegalian Dialectic. It is an idea of controlling two sides by guiding and managing a conflict (chaos) so that both sides end up in the same destination (order).
But what are we to do? We have to have something to provide hope.
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| Ran the race today. Results:
5k = 17:40
Place = 1st
Haha, not bad for coming off of an injury. Ok, so the time wasn't great, and there wasn't much competition side from one young gun (who wasn't tactically sound), but I am still happy. Actually, I am very happy to be healthy and close to race shape.
Next race I am thinking of is one in Tahoe, which is in a couple of weeks. I really need to see when the registration date is closed, cause now I really want to run it, simply because the scenary should be amazing, the race being a half-marathon.
Ah, good to be back. Redman out.
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| First race in quite a while this Sunday. Race starts 7:00 am at Damonte Ranch High School. My goal time is to break 17:30 for the 5k. My realistic time is 17:45. We shall see what happens.
There is this amazing website that organizes all of your races into one big list. It does a decent, yet not perfect, job. My results are here.
Things are happening in my life. We shall see where they go. For now I hold onto optimism, because why not? I have every reason to have little faith in the world, but screw it, I won't let it get the best of me.
Here is to life. Redman out.
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| I feel like writing again, don't know why.
Today I did what I think is my favorite running workout ever. This is the recipe:
1 mile warm
1 mile time trial (run it all out)
1 mile cool
3 miles "acceleration run"
1 mile cool
Put a dash of stretching and icing afterwords, and you are dressed for success.
My mile I did today, which really let me know where I am right now, was a 5:14, which isn't bad, but I used to be able to run these time trials in 4:40's, but I will get there in due time (if I remain injury free).
The best part about the workout though is the three mile "acceleration run". What I mean by that is this: every lap of the track is run faster than the last, period. Of course, you have to start off slow and build up, which is the doable part. My mile splits where as follows: 6:56, 6:36, 5:58, with a total time of 19:30, which was exactly my goal time. I love it when my runs work out like clock work. Redman out.
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