Daily Update

Yesterday was quite normal when i woke up, but changed drastically by noon, and even
more so by the evening. I think Kristen wanted to put me in my place when it comes
to running. About a week ago I invited her to come with. After she finished
laughing at me, she accepted. So I left work a little early. (One thing about nice
weather, it promotes the bosses leaving early too.) KA and I met up and went to my
usual track the Brentwood Country Club. It was a nice evening up to this point. I
intentionally wore my fast shorts, and a clean shirt, and of course the shoes that
have supported me through every occasion. She made it seem like a race at first.
We started. She then followed me for much of the first mile. That made me nervous
because I thought that she was taking notes on my performance. We traveled at an
average speed, typical of what had been my output lately. I think we arrived a
little to early for me to show her who all of my friends and ememies were. We only
saw Dreamy, the vice-commander of the ninja, and one other person who I recognized
from other runs. As we rounded the corner of the second mile. That is when She
decided to let her Gazelle like instinct take over. She lept ahead of me in a
single bound, and pranced forward with great ease. I don't have a problem following
people when running, especially when I can just watch their pony-tail bounce around
instead of watching my own feet. It sometimes helps me go faster. She stayed in
front for the completion of that second mile (lap 1) then just took off. I felt
good about completing the first lap, but as I started on the second, whoa nelly, the
output wasn't one of my best, thats for sure. I haven't trained myself to do that
yet. At that point Kristen yelled back to me 'see you at the finish line' and then
accelerated like a Champion Gazelle who had just kicked a lion's ass. I just kept
it in low gear for as I could. I had to stop for a minute and fight off the evil
band of ninja who had been lying in wait just around the second corner. I think
they noticed me in my weakened state, and decided to take advantage now, because it
dosen't happen that often. But after that I just continued on. I made some new
friends while running around. They were the Bus-Bench Trolls (instead of hiding
under a bridge). I only saw two, but I'm sure there are more. One of the ladies I
think I passed three times even, but she's definatly a troll, a nice one. As I was
comming up on the third corner of the course, I saw KA coming back toward me. I
guess you could call that her victory lap, since I was so slow compaired to her.
(For a second, I started looking behind me to see if she would be lapping me as she
completed a third lap around the course, but she was nice to my ego and didn't do
that.) She probably got bored hanging out by the cars, so she came back to make
sure I didn't stop and take a rest. I'm glad she came back to meet me for the last
stretch cause thats where most of the ninja warriors hang out, and I think they are
afraid of her cause when we were running together we didn't see very many of them.
And she obviously didn't have any problems while she glided ahead of me. I put out
a full effort to finish strongly, and felt extra good about being finished. The
best part of physical excercise is being done, (oh ya, and minus the dry-heaving.
Josh was right about that). I've been to much like a Zebra lately, hopefully in the
upcoming days I can work up to my once great supurb self, for a second time.

I slowly made it over to Jeff's place. Watched a little of 'the office'. Then
wandered over to someone else's house to discuss other business that I can't discuss
here. I don't think I can park over by his place for a while, due to the manner in
which I pulled away in my car. Lets just say that someone may be looking for me.

By this point in the evening my legs were sore, and it hurt to walk. I texted KA,
explaining this dificulty; when she replied, she said that runs like that were
usually just warm up's for her, and that she was ready to do it again tonight.
Quite impressive. She's either lying, or she's nuts,... or mocking me. But I can't
imagine why anyone would try to do that.

After enduring the late night Check-out lines at Ralphs, I sat at home sipping down
some chocolate milk and sketching away on my paintings listening to the sweet sounds
of the spanish guitar. Just fine tuning stuff, no pigments yet, but any day now.
With all the chocolate milk I drank, I think I undid some of the running I did
earlier. But it was so smooth doing down.

Work is busy.

Lunch was sponsored by Marvins. It was good. Afterwards I ran into Mr. Rider.
What a little school boy.

I listened to Greenday most of the day, but also listened to the new guy talk it up
in the office. He's becoming more and more interesting.