Ripped off in the record books!

I was just browsing the internet and came across an article about the 1994 Mountain View Boys Cross Country team's finish at the Foot Locker Western Regional. I'm not surprised because as everyone knows, the "Coach" (and I use that term very loosely here) hated my guts because I didn't suck up to him like the rest of the leeches on the team. Anyway here is a link to the article:

http://ut.milesplit.us/pages/All-timexcteams . Scroll down and read the bit about Mountain View and Bingham: the Greatest. It says how the 1994 Mountain View's boys team performance at the 1994 Foot Locker Western Regional Cross Country Championships is one of the best of all time. That is fine. But here is my gripe: It says Dula led the team in 15:12, Zak in 15:14, then Wade Allen in 16:09, Ryan Andrus in 16:10, and it has the 5th scoring runner on the team listed as Andy Farrer in 16:16. The problem is that I ran 16:11, thus I was the 5th and final scoring runner on the team. Only by 5 seconds, but still, I should have my name on that list of one of the best teams of all time, not Andy Farrer. I know it is probably because Houle the fool didn't claim me as a member of the team. Another interesting tidbit about this race is that I, along with Dula and Zak, were the only 3 runners from Mt. View in the Seeded boys race. The others were in Senior and Junior unseeded races. It makes a big difference. It ticks me off, but I'm not surprised. That guy screwed me out of a lot during my High School running career.

In better news, I ran a 5:30 mile last night and almost killed over running 7 miles with Trevor this morning. The mile time is slow, but it is encouraging because I am starting to get more fit.

Slippery Tennis Court

I drove up to Bellevue to play tennis with Greg this morning. The weather was overcast, but very little rain. After our warm up, we started the first set. Greg jumped out to a 2-0 lead on me after breaking my serve in the first game. On my side of the court there was a wet spot in the back of the court. I ended up back there somehow during a rally and ate it when my feet went out from under me. Thankfully the only injury I got was a skinned knuckle. I ended up losing the first set 4-6. It had started raining very lightly during the last couple of games of the first set. I served first to start the 2nd set and my serve was working pretty good (I always seem to serve better in the 2nd set) so I held serve easily to go up 1-0. Greg also had his serve working pretty good and tied it up 1-1. After he won the game I called the score 1-1, and he said no it's 0-2. So I corrected him and then won my service game to go up 2-1. It was starting to get pretty slippery at this point and I broke his serve to go up 3-1. During the 5th game of the set I was serving again and doing well. Greg ended up slipping and going down during one of the rallies. I won the game and was up 4-1 and we both decided it best to call it quits because the court was becoming quite treacherous, which was strange because I have played many times in the rain and never had issues with slipping, but I've always played in running shoes before and I think they have superior grip to my tennis shoes. Greg's knee was actually pretty busted up from his fall too. It was a bit frustrating to quit the match when I was starting to do so well, but that's how it goes sometimes. I guess I can look at it as total games won 8-7 in my favor. It's fun playing with Greg because we are both closely matched as far as our tennis game goes.

Running is coming along good. I'm going to go on a 10 mile run later this afternoon. I got in 11 miles yesterday and on my afternoon 6 mile run I took the whole crew. I pushed Elijah and Brandon in the stroller while Dallas and Cody rode their bikes behind me. It was a beautiful day for a run and I covered the 6 miles in 44:00. 7:20 pace while pushing a stroller is pretty good. I ran the last mile in 6:44. Dallas and Cody did great and never complained the entire time. I had to stop several times to help get little black bugs off Elijah. He did NOT like bugs on him and he let me and all the other trail goers know. That kid can wail. He might have a future as a sanger.

The picture is just for fun.