Hope everyone has a good Christmas. I don’t celebrate it myself, I’m a Festivus man. You know the Festivus pole, the airing of grievances, the feats of strength and all that. Other than that I’m not even really aware that it’s the holidays at all. I’m certainly not doing anything different than any other week. I’m at work since I don’t get holidays off and it’s pretty normal here other than all the mechanics being gone. I’ve been just as busy as any other night being outside fueling ground equipment and helicopters and stuff. I could have gone on a little flight around town tonight in the Skyhawk with Powder but I told Ed to go instead. I can’t really fly in those little planes because I have ear problems anyway. Plus Ed hasn’t really gone up in one and I already did with Ben so I got my fill of it. I have no desire at all to be a pilot. Lots of people around here are just mesmerized by flight. To me it’s just another stupid airplane.

My marathon training is going fine. By then end of the month I will have run the second most amount of miles in a month that I have run in my limited running life so far and I still feel pretty good. My left calf was hurting pretty bad in the beginning but that has gone away pretty much, and I’m back to the point where I am not limited by my heart rate and breathing being too high but rather my stupid legs not wanting to work and go faster. I’m getting tired of running on the treadmill though, that’s for sure.

Had the Korgie Christmas yesterday in Columbus at El Tapito. It was ok I guess. It’s definitely not like it used to be which kind of sucks but times change I guess. I didn’t bring anything for the gift exchange and just let everyone else do their thing. I really had no need for more stuff to take home. No need for an iced tea maker or clock or whatever.

I had a race a week ago that I never wrote anything about at all. I guess there was not really any rush since no one really cares about it but I gotta write about it since it’s one of the few things that I “do”. Joe came up from Gretna to run the race with me since I had gone to the Omaha area a few times for races that he wanted to run. The race was on the cross country course at Pioneer’s Park which I had never tried running before. It was sooo freakin’ cold outside. I made the mistake of wearing too much clothing so once the race started my body quickly overheated except for the superchilled air hitting my lungs. It ended up being my worst 5k yet time wise since I petered out really quick. Oh well. Joe ended up beating me by a minute and a half. I guess my friend Ronnie ran the race as well in his typical running gear which is 70′s style with the short shorts, head and wristbands and tight shirt. It’s a funny look, and he does it to get laughs. He had a great time and finished 39th overall. Way better than me, I came in 126th place. I just don’t seem to have any fast twitch muscle fibers at all, hence no speed. I’ll just plod along with some marathons I guess. Training for that is going well, one week down 15 to go, still gotta go into work tonight and run my 6 miles for today. Yay! Here is a link to the results, and here is a link to all the data that came out of the fancy watch.

I just finished my second Peru St. class tonight (a week early). It sucked and I’m glad it’s over. I should end up with a 96% or 97% or so depending on how she grades the last stuff. No matter what it’s an A so I’m right on track for that Summa Cum Laude graduation in only 3 years. The 7 year bachelors degree track sucks. Bring on Earth Science and Statistics next semester!

I’m taking tomorrow afternoon off. I’ve got like 5 or 6 days that I need to burn or I lose it in March so instead of just taking a week off I took a bunch of random days here and there over the Winter. If I took the whole week at one time without somewhere to go I would get bored and spend my time wishing I was back at work. I learned that last year. That’s all I’ve got for today, happy holidays and stuff!

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Well rather than farting around and ambiguously saying “I’m going to try and run a marathon sometime next spring” I thought it would be good to pick one and start training for it already. I picked the Olathe Marathon down in the Kansas City area since it’s relatively close, it’s on March 28th exactly 16 weeks away and gives me a nice timeframe for a training schedule, it gives me enough time to recover and run the Lincoln Marathon in the beginning of May and I have an aunt and uncle that will let me stay at their place the night before that live there. Maybe my parents will come down there for a visit and we can make an event out of it or something. Two for the price of one for them, visit the relatives, and root me on. Maybe I can talk my Uncle Joe into running it too, I’ll ask him tomorrow when he comes down to run a 5k with me tomorrow. Maybe the half for him or something…

I finally got my school reimbursement from work a few days ago, it turns out that they issued it weeks ago but ended up in a pile someplace instead of being given to me. It took me and another guy who was missing his too complaining and making waves before someone looked around and found them. Whooops! Sorry!

Sorry my butt…

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