Finally it works!

Hey everyone. I’m the idiot who works on computers editing videos every day and couldn’t get a blog login to work. Now it’s finally working so here are all the entries I’ve missed. No hard feelings for not being compelled to weather through them all.

November 4
The haircut I got yesterday makes running a lot less annoying. I was also able to get some warmer clothes from my parents’ house over the weekend, which helps. The 35-minute class run wasn’t bad. It’s nice to feel able in class runs now. I remember dying the first few mornings back in August and September. Walk breaks help a ton.

November 7
I ran 19 miles. It was killer, but it was so much better than running however many awful laps that would’ve been around Lunsford. Morgan and I ran from my house ( I live at the intersection of College and Lincoln) through the park (whichever one is off Ambler down past Hillcrest), down Ambler to Treadaway and then back to my house is a huge loop. Stopping by my house gave us a chance to snack on some Snickers Marathon Bars and drink some water. We were planning on doing the rest of our run around Lunsford, but I have come to resent that strip of sidewalk soo much. Haha. We ended up taking Lunsford to a right on Judge Ely and then running down Judge Ely until we hit the road that takes you down past MSJ and to the highway. Then we ran all the way back to my house and got more water and another bite of Marathon Bar. Then we still had to run a few laps around Lunsford to finish up our distance. It was crazy because we were both feeling fantastic until we hit that stupid trail and then we started aching. One thing I learned for sure though: don’t get off your walk break pace. We walked our entire last lap around Lunsford and it was worse than the whole run had been up to that point. I’m never doing that again.

November 9
The weather was fantastic today. The 20-minute run is class today felt great. It’s weird that 20 minutes is almost relaxing now. When compared to the 19 miles this weekend, it was an absolute vacation. Haha. I still wish I enjoyed running, but at least I don’t hate it anymore.

November 14
Ran for an hour today at home. I forgot how far I was supposed to run, but I didn’t feel like killing myself so I just took an hour and ran. It was really cool to run the same path I ran this summer, when two miles was murder. I was able to go so much farther and actually use the running sidewalk along Hall-Johnson (that’s a road right outside of my neighborhood). It was weird to run alone, but a lot of fun to get out and see the place I lived for so many years from a whole new vantage point.

November 19
Did some good cross training today. My bike was stolen off my porch a month or two ago and I finally got a new bike from a pawn shop so I’ve been able to ride back and forth to school and I’ve really felt it in my legs. Tonight though, I’ve did some sit ups and crunches for my core push-ups (because I always seem to pair the two together) while I watched a DVRed episode of Big Bang Theory. No explicit or focused leg workout, but I’m hoping the bike riding back and forth all week is making up for that somewhat.

November 21
The big one. The 20 mile run tonight was incredible. I can barely move, but I feel so accomplished. This time Morgan and I started from her house (on Ambler down past Wal-Mart) and ran away from Abilene, past the city limits and down a beautiful country road. We had to run back sooner than I would’ve liked to because the sun was going down, but watching the sunset was gorgeous. Then we ran down to her house where we had Gatorade and Marathon Bars and got a little refreshment. Then we ran down to my house, which meant running under the highway on the shoulder of all those busy roads, in the dark. It was horrifying. We made it safely, and got some water at my house. Then we ran the same route that we ran for our 19-mile run, except without all of the Lunsford laps. We actually ended up being closer to my house most of the time and isolated from our Gatorade and Marathon Bars. When we finished we were stuck at my house without a car, but got a ride back to Morgan’s. It was an amazing night and a personally gratifying accomplishment. God was incredibly gracious to carry me so far.

November 23
We played bucketball! I love bucketball! Running with purpose and competition and without a time limit or far-off distance to achieve is fantastic. The game was lots of fun and everybody played awesome. It really reemphasized to me how great the group of people in our class is. I kinda wish I knew everybody outside of class a little better, but the glimpses of awesome suffice quite well. ;) You guys rule.

November 28
I ran with my dad and my uncle, JR, today. We ran 4 miles and I don’t think I breathed out of my mouth or even sweated very much the whole time. The weather was great and the company was awesome. Both my uncle and my dad used to run a lot but have kind of gotten out of it. It was cool to be able to keep up with guys whose athletic abilities I looked up to and to even feel able to continue past the point where they chose to stop. I didn’t want to after they stopped, because that would’ve felt like it went against an unspoken “man-code” or something, but I really enjoyed getting out and running with my family after having such a feast only a day or two earlier.

November 30
Today I ran with Morgan around Lunsford Trail in the piercing cold. It was a nice jog until she started having some severe stomach pain. She went to the doctor and everything turned out alright, but it was really scary for a second. The run felt good, but was much colder than I would’ve liked. I like it to be brisk, but biting cold just makes it hard to breath, even on short 25 minute runs. It’s weird how different the runs were between today and last Saturday. I sincerely hope I am not losing my running capacity. This is no time for that. Haha.


So yeah, I don’t think I wrote those how everyone else did, now that I’m reading some of ya’ll’s. Hope anyone who read them wasn’t bored to death. I didn’t realize this thing was so conversational. Anyways, you guys rock! We are so close!

Take care,
-|- Lawson