Injuries

Plantar facitis
achilies tendonitis
tight calves
it band tightness
psoas tight
lower back tight
shoulder tight
rightness bruised
left knee strained
both hamstrings scar tissue

im sure i am forgetting something

Tired of Loosing

Im tired of loosing. I am tired of feeling like a looser. I am tired of people talking to me like a looser. Tired.

Where am I?: London

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London

On My Way to London

Im in the Brussels airport (no really!) headed to London to run for the first time ever.  I have always wanted to run at Crystal Palace.  The name sounds so spectacular and glamorus.  I cant wait to see what fate awaits me there.  It will also be my first meet on an 8 lane track in a while.  The stadium seat 16k+ people, and the meet is sold out as the U.K. gets to send its final fairwell to its Olympic Hopefuls.  I am going to ruin someones party when I get there. 

Samurai Champloo!

My new favorite Anime.  I am only on episode 14, but episode 13 and 14 are the best so far.  It has a clever mix of hip-hop music and fast paced fight scenes that make it enjoyable to watch.  

http://www.realitylapse.com/videos/samuraichamploo.php

Yourself?

What do you think of yourself?  Is it different than what people think of you?

Im Going To Surf

I am going to learn how to surf this year.  

Im Actually in Antwerp

10km from Brasschaat.  There is a movie theater here.  Might get to see Batman before I get home and everyone ruins it for me.

Alone

I dont have any friends.

Im Gonna Move

I think I am going to move from Santa Monica this year. I may move from the beach to the mountains so i can enjoy the outdoors. i can take my son camping, and go driving whenever i want. I should get a job that lets me be outside too. maybe a firefighter or construction worker. I dont know. i want to move though. I also want to take a photography class and learn 2 new languages. I think next Summer i will go to travel in Central and South America. What I will do there, I dont know, but I want to go into the wilderness.

Where am I?: Brasschaat, BEL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasschaat

6 Lanes?

I haven't run on a 8 lane track since i have been here in Europe.  It is quite disheartening. Every race feels like practice when i am in the blocks.  I can't wait for London to get here.  I hope the weather co-operates with us.  I am probably going to skip my next meet in Belgium on the 23rd to train for London on the 26th.  Right now i am just trying to get some new spikes.  Mine are all old and tatered.  I can't wait for this year to be over with one way or another.  either i will be a champion or bow out.  I can't live like this anymore.  To know that you are faster than others, only not to perform at your best because of the lack of money or support is not a way to live.  I would not recomend to anyone to pursue Track and Field as a means of supporting yourself and your family.  

Viva Bayano

I have no reason to complain.  If I was to die today, i would leave this earth a happy man who loved, lived, created, and cultivated at least one life.  I have seen places that I didnt know exsited, and earned the respect of strangers.  I am an adventurer, and I dont think i will ever stop being one.  it complicates the lives of others around me, but I am a complete bore when I am not actively doing what makes me feel alive.  

If you know me, you know that Bayano can be very polar.  I am not bi-polar, I just enjoy what I enjoy and if I am not intrested I am really not intrested.  Ask my mum, she will vouch for this.  Some people can seem intrested in any subject.  It is hard for me to fake it.  I try for the sake of conversation, but i fail most of the time.  However, if I converse with someone about something I am passionate about I wont shut up.  My eyes light up with exctiment.  It feels good, and I  feel alive.   We should all have a passion.

Where am I?: Avila, ESP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ávila

Slippery Slope!!

Whoops! lol :-)  I walked back on the "not cool" part. 

EuroSmoke

All of you in the U.S. I hope you realize how good we non smokers have it.  If you dont , take a trip to Spain.  The entire city smells like cigarette smoke.  It is impossible to eat inside, it is impossible to eat outside, it is impossible to avoid smoke period.  

I am a bit of a s anti-smoking snob.  Why?  Because it is gross and a major violation of my personal space.  How would you like it if a was to wipe my sweaty eyebrow and fling the sweat in your proximity?  Nasty right. 

If you are going to smoke you should wear a scuba mask that recirculates all the waste so that you can get all of that "good ole tabaco flavor".  Then you would be forced to share it with the rest of us.  

I wont mind...

Alcala, ESP Post Race

I ran my second race here in Europa this year in Alcala, ESP.  It was a disaster.  First, i felt crappy.  My allergies and asthma always bother me in central Spain due to the dry dusty climate.  Second, there was lots of confusion at the call room.  This is the first meet I have ever been to that that required a passport to check in!  needless to say, I didn't have mine, and the disgruntled lady behind the desk did not want to help.  So I just go to the start line and there is another problem.  I dont have a bib number on my back.  So, I had 3 Spainiards shouting at me that i could not run. 

On to the race.  I stumbled out of the blocks, then went to fast for the first 4 hurdles.  I slowed coming home then smashed the final hurdle and almost fell.  It took me 8 seconds to get from hurdle 10 to the finish.  It normally takes me 5.4.  Soooo, on to the next rinky-dink meet to work out the kinks.  Would be fun to run in a big race soo.  I have my fingers crossed for London.  

B

Where am I: Alcala, ESP

Alcala, ESP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcal%C3%A1_de_Henares

Kortrijk

Pre race video

I Phone Friday!!

It is madness. All the way here in little Kortrijk Belgium Steve Jobs ( aka Willy Wonka ) has all the kids lined up at for a candy apple. I was just going on a morning run when i stumbled upon the line circling around the store. Of course the biggest geek was at the front. Props to him for standing in the rain for who knows how long. Hope it i worth it buddy. I am not an early adapter. Not that I dont appreciate them. Trust me; I do. If a great product and no one bought it then it would just fade away into vapor. It has happened before. Sega Dreamcast, cheap RWD cars, and minidisc are a few that I can think of that had great potential, but never grabed the attention of the masses.
Funny thing is Apple doesnt even sell to the masses. I guess it is similar to authentic Prada, Gucci, or Fendi bags meaning every woman that has a purse knows of them, but less than 1% actually own one (bootlegs exluded of course).
So I tip my hat to Steve for binging sexyback to tech. Your still an asshole though. :)

Where am I?

Kortrijk, BEL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kortrijk

Dont Die Fucked Up

Dont leave this earth doing what someone else thinks you should do.


“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

Happy?

What does it take to really be happy? Is it possible to be happy everyday? How can you tell if you are genuinely happy, or just naieve?

I have had good and bad days. I have had alot of good days sequentialy, followed by a tandem of bad days. Why do I feel unhappy during the bad days. If you were to ask me ¨What makes you happy?¨ I could give a entire list of material things and abstact experiences. But on a bad day those things still exist. I have not lost ability to DO any of those things on the list. No, usually I am unhappy because of control. Loss of control freqks ,e out. I am not a control freak, but when the few things in my life start to squirm arwry I get antsy.

So if you find yourself unhappy because of how your day is going, sit down and think about what makes you happy that YOU can control.