Track season is underway and going strong

Hello!

This is Logan, and I thought I would update this bloggy to tell you about how my track season is going thus far.
I tried the two mile for the first time, it sucked hairy man balls and I went at basically my 5k pace, and got a time of 11:02.
I ran the mile, got 4:55 which is a pr so that's good :D
I've run the 800 and gotten 2:13 which is also a pr, and okay.
I plan on shattering most of these scores, with a hesitant maybe on the two miler lol.

I did not know that you could earn medals in track, but apparently you can O_o
If I had known that I probably would've run harder through the shin splints than I did.
(I was still running though, just being cautious of hurting myself.)

We have a ton of great runners on our team, like Ed and Ethan and Pum.
(Me too if I begin to pick up the slack :D)
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On to things that interest me a bit more, I have been reading books lately on a variety of subjects. One on visual thinking, and it's applications in the business world, one of dreams, which is very very interesting to read, one on the history of video games, which is also interesting, one on the power of thought, one on strategic thinking, one on computer programming, a ton of ebooks, one on habits, and one on winning by quitting. (<-- the last one I am a bit adverse to reading, but I can deal with it okay. It's concept it interesting, as long as you don't misinterpret it and drop out of the important things in life)

I guess I could post a list of the books and their authors later :D

The book on visual thinking talks about using the six w's to see and to show, when drawing and observing. It talks about using the ways our minds naturally perceive things to make images that the audience will just get kinda intuitively. (with some explaining of course)
It has a couple tools for figuring out the right image to use and methods for figuring out what is best to show based on your audience.

The book on dreams talked about lucid dreaming, which occurs during REM sleep, and various methods of dream interpretation and the usefulness of dreams. The dreams can inform you and give you insights into your life and your personality. It went over methods ranging from Freud's to Jung's to newer different methods as well.

The book on video game history was talking about pinball machines as the very first beginnings of the industry, then moving on to arcade machines, then to home-tv games and with companies such as Atari, Namco, and a few others (Nintendo).
Very interesting stuff, even mentions Steve Jobs working for atari when he was a youth O-O

Well, that's all for now :D
I'll talk to you next time,

Love,

~Logan Drew Haser
4-4-2011

Emotions and love often mix…

Dear readers, sometimes I think I love some people and other times I wonder if I truly do love anything at all. I fear that if I indulge in any activity, if I do fully commit myself to that activity, that if I give my heart body mind and soul to that activity, I fear I will lose myself in the process.

I have the potential for greatness in many areas, but any greatness I will achieve will be short lived if I end up resenting my work or if I do not love it and have a fiery passion for it.

Once the driving force behind my actions, my motivation and “drive”, is gone I will be dissuaded from furthering that career. I will become a joker of many, but a master of none.

Or whatever that old saying is anyway!! :p

I think that perhaps I am afraid, or rather insecure, to the point that I don’t take risks. That isn’t safe nor is it what is taught.

I have been programmed to follow the rules and the psychological responses I have to certain things have been trained into me since childhood. I react as I have been taught to.

However, surprisingly, lately it would seem that I don’t participate in certain emotional squanderings because I don’t invest or value them in any way. It appears that I have evaluated any outcome from the occurrence as a misdemeanor that will not  change any significant thing in my life except make it more stressful than it needs to be. It appears I weigh my supposed theoretical pros and cons and decide that the cons consume the pros and are not worth the time of my life.

What if I am wrong though?

What if I do need to spend more time socializing, more time indulging my emotions, more time creatively and actively expressing them so that I don’t explode or implode in various dysfunctional ways. I allow fear to prevent me from doing what I need to and that is not what I should do, that is the wrong way to deal with fear.

I should do what I need to and deal with the consequences as they arise calmly and in the present anti-tense.

I do not think I articulated my thoughts well enough and may revise or try again later. As you do realize, this blog is for me not really for you. But… you can still enjoy it if that is what affect it has on you. affect=affection=emotion

effect=effected=result

Cause(<->) effect

Caused the effect that affected who? Maybe not affected? idk.
But anyway,

Thanks for reading,

~Sage

Hmm… I never update do I?

Dear Readers,

I am sorry I have not updated this blog lately, and I guess I will make up for it by updating it from now on. :D (Well… hopefully xD)

I will now briefly outline the successes of my cross country season this year, 2010, as the season just recently ended.

The whole season I was fighting off shin splints that I got from running high fast mileage.

I started out the season with a blazing 17:39 and by the end of the season I had it down to, my personal best, 16:46!

I have received a lot of medals this year, although I still feel I didn’t do my best at Clovis and could’ve gotten a medal there, and got my last medal at League Finals.

I got first place. For sophomores ;D

That day was craazy, and I am sure if it hadn’t occurred the way it did I would not have won.

The day was really really hot, way over 100 degrees F, and they postponed the races till later and decided to have two big races for boys and for girls, jv with v, and soph with fresh.

Well later came and it was too hot so they said they’d postpone it for a half hour whilst the coaches talked it out. Our coach said part of the problem was that the football game was going to be on the track later, our starting point for the race, and he was trying to get them to postpone and move the race to a new location.

Well I jokingly said to one guy, I believe it was JV Chris Moore, or V Ethan DeSon or someone(who had originally told me about the combined 2 races), something like “Wouldn’t it be crazy if they just had all of us race at once? ;D” And they said something about yeah but they probably wouldn't, that would be a lot of people.

Guess what? Our Coach, Coach Dollar, runs to us and says we are running in 30 mins. In one big heat!!

The poor girls raced basically right then with two laps on the track for a warm up, and it was hotter when they were racing.

Luckily for me I drank four gallons of water or so and some gatorade too so I was better prepared than some of the guys who thought they’d cancel the race for sure.

I knew I didn’t stand a chance if I got excited and chased the varsity around so I went out decently fast, ok I went out slow, and slowly passed a lot of my competition in the race!

Now back to the only reason why I won, Josh Reise has had an off season this year, and yet still got fifth at mount sac recently, and his talent is still amazing although not as much as it should be.

He should be running low sixteens to high fifteens but no, he took too much time off, got lazy, and yet he still poses a major threat to me because even though he didn’t improve much he has improved still. And I have injuries too.(I believe he does)

So anyway, because we were running with EVRYONE, varsity y(&) JV y freshmen, Josh naturally tried to fit in where he should be. He ran behind some of our slower varsity runners, low sixteens, and burned out at the end a bit. He still got third in our race believe it or not, and only got passed by myself and someone else on our team.

I really hope that my injuries will stop occuring and that we will do lower mileage during track season, I want to be amazing and do amazing things. I want to letter, break 2:00 on the 800, and get some amazing time on the mile and perhaps the two-mile as well.

Well that’s all I have time for right now, so I guess I’ll post more some time soon! (Hopefully :D)

Thanks for reading,

Sincerely,

~James

¡:D!

1/14/2010
Hello everyone!!
I just thought I'd post a quick update. Last Thursday, I think the 8th, I tried out for track!!
Remember the time needed to get in?? 5:30 right? Well I got 5:30 flat!!! Woot woot!! Afterwords coach Dollar told us who was definately on the team for each grade level and Josh Reese and I were the only freshman who made the cut-off!!
(Josh is the fastest freshman we have, also I think he's the 8th fastest in the state for x-country)
That was pretty awesome!! :D
But... That shin I mentioned earlier is actually getting worse. For a while I tried to deny it, tried to keep on keeping on, but I can't dent it any longer. Both my medial shins are hurting now, and despite this fact I still raced Josh in the 400. He was doing a injured run today just as I was and I beat him on the track. Because I assumed he was faster I ran in the innermost lane and kept equal to his speed. We were racing to see who could get back to Chris first and after going one hundred he started to sprint, moving his legs really fast, and knowing I couldn't last much longer, I lengthened my stride predicting he would be tired before me. And lo and behold he said he couldn't go that fast and he, I think, stopped. However too much was at stake. I had to keep going till I reached Chris and right after he stopped man was I feeling the downsides of speed. I was seriously slowing down and actually thought I could hear him behind me.(Although I think he was not)
So I reached Chris. I beat him.
In all fareness to him he was injured. Perhaps more than myself. Perhaps not. Either way, what this means is that he has some competition and I have some competition. But it's all good because were freinds. It's good when your freinds push you to do better. This post is to commemorate the making and breaking of my PR for track!! (PersonalRecord)
As always
Keep it real,
~James
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2010 :D

Hello fellow surfers!! Been surfing any good any good webs lately? I'm not sure what to talk about so I'll make something up. Wait.. No I just thought of something... I recently began to read some books I had started to read a while back and they are awesome!! One is known as "The road less traveled 25th anniversery edition," and is an amazing book!! It is about a lot of extraordinarily helpful subjects ranging from discipline to love to religon to grace. I'm still in the beginning, discipline, and it is very interesting!!

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I read a short story recently called "Who moved my cheese?!?," and it was a humorous interesting read. It presented many interesting thoughts on the process of change. One I would like to share with you is,
What would you do is you weren't afraid?
It has another, kind of complementary, thought that goes with that one but I guess you'd have to read the book to find out!! :D Muhaha!!!
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I run cross country and boy is it fun!! It's tough work, pain, sweat, and shin splinty but it's fun and worth it. It keeps you thin, fast, and rewards you with euphoric endorphins. I guess I will try out for track and feild soon. However, I need to run a 5:30 mile and my record stands 5:45ish. 5:41, around there. I beleive I can do it but my right leg has some kinda shin splint and I may need to push it to acheive such a goal...
I will do great!! I WILL be awesome and I WILL get under 5:30!! Even if only by a second!!
:D
Possitive thinking will actually improve performance. :D



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Tis sit is now

I recently downloaded an application called animation which allows me to make little drawing animations and upload them to YouTube. Here's one I uploaded. Hope you enjoy! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdIDwelRvp4


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Exotic abnormalities

Hello everyone!! I'm only going to be able to make a quick posting, and if it's weird well... That's just the mood Im in right now.. Enjoy...

I, being much moved by the works of various men of great valor, decided to have works of my own. This magick is unlikely to come upon the world by any lack of virtue or supposed karma thereof and thusly I will meander outwards and grasp a silhoutte of a conception so vastly confrontational that all life will be swerved. It is by and around this logical construct ,that which is the fruit of my bossom and the works of my deeds, that I will make known the adequate inadequency that occupies the consciousness of most (of the) masses. It is in this respect thusly proclaimed that I will shape the future of mine own.
Homosapeins seperated are easily conbodulated and misguided into accepting inaccurate conjecture spewed by "official" politicians and lawyers. Thusly all endeavour are tiresomely slow with a ridiculously miniscule support system. No one group cares for another and likewise disregards any potency that the opposed posseses. We are lead by law in to keep order by which chaos can be avoided. If everyone were to stop following these laws they would become virtually nonexistant, just like if noone speaks a language it can become extinct. We are told to stay in our lanes, boxed up in cars that have no communication, told that we cannot communicate cellularly while mobile, and put on a path full of amazing opportunities completely masked by closed doors and windows hiding the resources ad beauty within. Granted some find solice in being a mindless droid following orders given without question but what about those of us who wernt around to contemplate these ideas originally? We are told to jump on the bandwagon or get run over. This is not ideal nor does it show any form of the peoples choice. However, even I must aknowledge the need for order and thus the need for law, but not the need for seperation, segregation, and propiganda distributed by public sources trusted all too much. All it takes is one corrupt person to gain enough power and everything is under his/her;hir influence. Thus it is unwise to readily absorb all data presented on or in anything. Everything you know, everything you learn was either a result of self discovery or of someone elses ideas, morals, discovery, and theories that everyone readily agreed with. Now, just because I say this it doesn't mean that everyone you learn about is a fraud, but merely that one could be a fraud and once that false core is sorrounded and rooted within fact and other generally accepted practice and knowledge it becomes almost impossible to question it or to even figure right from wrong.
As you may know if I say that change is constant becuase everything is constantly changing and if we built enough upon this idea we would tye in time, wear and tear, and forces and it would become accepted and hard to even consider wrong or inadequate. But if someone comes along and says that change is not constant becuase everythig is always just one form or another of the same things(atoms and energy) then perhaps with enough support from the general "favored" experts it could be considered to be true and then dubbed as the thruth. But even then it may not be really true but may be the result of observing changes on the surface without noting what's happening within or around. Every idea, concept, thought, and theory already exists waiting for one to theorize and stumble upon it's existence and proclaim it to the world. In this respect nothing really belongs copyrighted to a specific individual but such measures are nice to have. I am tired and thus end this post for now. If you will powered through this whole thing thanks!! :D and have a fantastic rest of your day!!

Sincerely,
James Dodon

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