Run, faster, stronger and higher. That has been pretty much my life after Miami; track practices and one Meet (=yleisurheilukisat). So, I chose long distance. I'm just slower than other guys in sprinting for sure. Others have run over the finish while I start to set my starting blocks.
This week, we had SPRING BREAK, from Wednesday to Friday. It was again time to just be, doing nothing. Things I did are not even worth of telling. Boring Xbox, movies and guitar stuff you know. Fell asleep already there..? Hopefully not.
Track practices have been nice, just as nice as running circles can be.. We (me and one other guy) distance guys run 1600 meters, rest, 3200 meters, rest, 1600 meters. Then we have usually time to do some weight lifting. This is usuallu schedule for every week from Monday to Wednesday. On Thursdays we do all the events which we will have in a Meet, which is usually on Friday. In practices I started to feel pretty good about my stamina and running. Running is so relaxing, I think. Even though relaxing on couch is not bad either, with some beer.. But I have to stop dreaming! I'm athletic.. My feelings about that everything's fine kinda crushed. Let me tell about that.
It was a beautiful Friday afternoon. Our team left to the Track Meet by our school bus. Thank God it was indoor meet.. It's not that cold here than in Finland. Not snow haha. :)) But still too cold in Sami's opinion to run outside. We did our warm-up with our team and were ready to start. Our coach, who is a really nice guy and talented coach (he's a cop..), decided that I'll run 1 mile and 800 meters after that. I was SO nervous before a man did the starting shot. I've been running for fun in my free time for a long time (not during the winter when I was sitting on a bench in basketball). But I realized that running and competing with others and running one circle is a WAY different thing. At start I made the most stupid mistake.. I started way too fast, and tried to keep up with fastest guys. By doing that I wasted all, my lungs and heart... and started jogging. I tried to catch other guys but that was just a dream. I ended up by being the last one in my heat (=juoksuerä) and didn't feel my lungs or heart at all. Don't laugh guys.. that was a TERRIBLE feeling. I had few hours to recover from that before my next race: 800 meters. Breathing still hurt when I started to run.. I run the whole race with one guy called Kyle (same name as my bro has), and it was kinda funny when they said: "Go Kyle, catch him!" In the end he didn't catch me 'cause I did a HUGE sprint with Finnish sisu the last 150 meters. So, I wasn't last one in that race. You guys should be proud of me. :--)) I still think I would've done better in 800 meters without running that 1 mile first.
To be honest.. I don't wanna go on like this. I have decided that I ask my coach that "Could I change my distances from 1 mile and 800 meters to 800 and 400 meters. I really hope that would be possible. I don't wanna suffer anymore in meets in future.. And we have like 16 of them coming.. Meets are not so nice because you have to compete with blood in ur mouth.. just not my thing, and they usually take 5 hours.. because there's so many events and both men's and women's. After tomorrow I'll know am I able to switch my distances to more comfy ones. Let's hope the best.
Sorry.. this was kinda "complaining whole the time"-blog. I'll promise I will dry u tears and make ur sad faces (because of my sad blog) to smiles in my next blog. I totally promise I'll write more often in future that I've been doing before. Maybe just that promise makes u smile (or "I wouldn't care less").
'til next time
Sami, the runner
sunnuntai 27. maaliskuuta 2011
torstai 17. maaliskuuta 2011
MIAMI, FL
It's kinda funny that my blog seems to have turned to a traveling blog. Hawaii last time and now Miami. I'm so sorry guys there hasn't been anything between those two blogs. There hasn't happened anything special to write... except.. TRACK (yleisurheilu in Finnish). We have had practices now two weeks, and I have enjoyed so far. I'm doing the long distances 1 mile (1600 meters) and 2 miles (3000 meters). I'm not so fast in sprint and I ran the whole las summer, so I got a pretty good stamina. Our practices are always different. At the start everybody did 2 mile-run, sit-ups etc, and then technic practice. Right now everybody are doing their own thing depending on what you are doing for track. So, I'm running, running and running in practices and I like it.
Oh man, I know you don't give a s*it about track. Everybody started to read this because you saw the word "Miami". So here you go guys!
So we stayed one week in Miami with Leo's (the French exchange-student in my host family two years ago) family. They have lived almost one year now in Miami. Lucky.. Their house was really cool with a swimming pool and I felt I was like in a hotel or something. The only thing which took that imagination away was that I didn't have to use my credit card to sleep. In their family, there's Leo, his mom, bro and dad. One of his friends from France, Max, was also visiting him. I got along great with everybody, expect Kyle (just kidding).
We arrived to Miami in Sunday evening. Leo and his mom took us.. with a hummer btw.. to their house. We chilled and talked a while and then we ate supper. We were all so tired because of traveling and went straight to bed. So, nothing excited happened yet. But something "little" is coming so don't stop reading for God's sake.
On Monday we slept long. I went to a run and then chilled on the pool with my mom and Kyle. We took so much sun that we looked like Spanish people after few hours, or almost.. After that we went to a smaller town, just next to Miami and walked around. Here's the photo of that.
At the same night, Monday night. We went to MIAMI HEAT NBA BASKETBALL GAME. It was so awesome experience, even though Miami lost (if I had been on their bench they have won. We saw Lebron James, the best player right now in NBA. I don't have any words to describe the game. So here are photos fellows.
Tuesday. That's what I called a holiday! We went to a beach and just enjoyed our time there (5 hours) and we were ready to look like North African people. Swimming on the ocean was great! Even though my brother (like in that photo) came swimming too and started to fight with me. I love it even with bruises. It's so lovely to have a brother to fight with because I don't have any real one in Finland. After the beach it was time for beaches.. or not. We went to Miami beach and streets next to it, and had supper there with all the people (Leo's family and us). Miami beach and Miami was dark (because it was night) but the night life with gay bars and stuff.. oh my gosh! Super.
After Tuesday comes Wednesday. We spent the whole day in a ZOO in Miami. It was really interesting in my opinion. :)) I think I should have left my brother there with other monkeys. It was the only crappy-weather day, so it was good to spend with camels and my other friends. Here are some photographs from the Zoo.
On Thursday was finally time to bitches, I mean to Miami Beach! Here's the photo from there. We checked out the beach and went shopping. I really enjoyed to see Miami in a daylight. If you don't believe it's one of the coolest photos, check these photos out!
Alligators + Friday = Alligator Friday. We went to a Alligator place. The tiny river and a boat trip among it and we saw few wild alligators. And as you can see they didn't eat me even though Finnish meat is delicious.
On Saturday, we went to a trip by our rental car to Miami Keys and Key West. Those are all famoues places and I don't anymore wonder why! It was really beautiful. While we stopped (stayed 49898 hours) my mom and brother took new tattoos. It was cool to watch when they made those. I, myself, didn't take any. Even though, I seriously though about taking one: Finnish lion and American eagle together with initials of all my family members here and in Finland. But I p*ssy and didn't want to do that in the end. It's so life time lasting thing that you don't make those kind of decisions in one week or so.
Sunday. We left back to cold Iowa and our vacation was over. That was my "own vacation" from school and missed one week at school, oh yeah! Right now I'm feeling greater than after a long time. I love track and everything's just so nice. I have, for change, great plans for this weekend. :) Night Storm-dance party and hanging out with friends.
'til next time
SaMi(ami)
Oh man, I know you don't give a s*it about track. Everybody started to read this because you saw the word "Miami". So here you go guys!
So we stayed one week in Miami with Leo's (the French exchange-student in my host family two years ago) family. They have lived almost one year now in Miami. Lucky.. Their house was really cool with a swimming pool and I felt I was like in a hotel or something. The only thing which took that imagination away was that I didn't have to use my credit card to sleep. In their family, there's Leo, his mom, bro and dad. One of his friends from France, Max, was also visiting him. I got along great with everybody, expect Kyle (just kidding).
We arrived to Miami in Sunday evening. Leo and his mom took us.. with a hummer btw.. to their house. We chilled and talked a while and then we ate supper. We were all so tired because of traveling and went straight to bed. So, nothing excited happened yet. But something "little" is coming so don't stop reading for God's sake.
On Monday we slept long. I went to a run and then chilled on the pool with my mom and Kyle. We took so much sun that we looked like Spanish people after few hours, or almost.. After that we went to a smaller town, just next to Miami and walked around. Here's the photo of that.
At the same night, Monday night. We went to MIAMI HEAT NBA BASKETBALL GAME. It was so awesome experience, even though Miami lost (if I had been on their bench they have won. We saw Lebron James, the best player right now in NBA. I don't have any words to describe the game. So here are photos fellows.
Tuesday. That's what I called a holiday! We went to a beach and just enjoyed our time there (5 hours) and we were ready to look like North African people. Swimming on the ocean was great! Even though my brother (like in that photo) came swimming too and started to fight with me. I love it even with bruises. It's so lovely to have a brother to fight with because I don't have any real one in Finland. After the beach it was time for beaches.. or not. We went to Miami beach and streets next to it, and had supper there with all the people (Leo's family and us). Miami beach and Miami was dark (because it was night) but the night life with gay bars and stuff.. oh my gosh! Super.
After Tuesday comes Wednesday. We spent the whole day in a ZOO in Miami. It was really interesting in my opinion. :)) I think I should have left my brother there with other monkeys. It was the only crappy-weather day, so it was good to spend with camels and my other friends. Here are some photographs from the Zoo.
On Thursday was finally time to bitches, I mean to Miami Beach! Here's the photo from there. We checked out the beach and went shopping. I really enjoyed to see Miami in a daylight. If you don't believe it's one of the coolest photos, check these photos out!
Alligators + Friday = Alligator Friday. We went to a Alligator place. The tiny river and a boat trip among it and we saw few wild alligators. And as you can see they didn't eat me even though Finnish meat is delicious.
On Saturday, we went to a trip by our rental car to Miami Keys and Key West. Those are all famoues places and I don't anymore wonder why! It was really beautiful. While we stopped (stayed 49898 hours) my mom and brother took new tattoos. It was cool to watch when they made those. I, myself, didn't take any. Even though, I seriously though about taking one: Finnish lion and American eagle together with initials of all my family members here and in Finland. But I p*ssy and didn't want to do that in the end. It's so life time lasting thing that you don't make those kind of decisions in one week or so.
Sunday. We left back to cold Iowa and our vacation was over. That was my "own vacation" from school and missed one week at school, oh yeah! Right now I'm feeling greater than after a long time. I love track and everything's just so nice. I have, for change, great plans for this weekend. :) Night Storm-dance party and hanging out with friends.
'til next time
SaMi(ami)
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