Wednesday, November 26, 2003
4:16 pm
hmm maybe i don't regret going for mental skills today after all. derek let us watch
without limits. damn that was a good show. you know, that show is so realistic, yet so unrealistic. who the hell is actually so passionate about running? oh yeah. steve prefontaine. oh man that guy is one hell of a runner. he doesn't believe in running tactics. he just believes in himself. i think there was sth his coach (bill bowerman) said abt how 'prefontaine can't accept that a mediocre effort can win the race and an all-out one cannot.' or sth like that. prefontaine ran his races as fast as he could the whole way and he was only happy with his gold medal when he won that way. to him running was to endure more pain than anyone else could. ouch man. why torture yourself buddy.
these are all real people by the way. ever wondered how nike came about? it wasn't a guy who was named nike and named his company nike after him. :P bill bowerman, prefontaine's coach, specialised in making shoes for all his runners. he put the tick on all his shoes as a trademark and told prefontaine nike was the name of some greek goddess. weird huh.
just do it. maybe that's how the trademark came about. prefontaine! at the olympics when he was asked how he thought the race might unfold he was like 'i hope it just comes down to a pure guts race. cos if it does i'm the man who will win it'.
okay weird i nvr thought i could talk so much about running and stuff. actually you know what? i feel like running now. but my leg hurts. oh crap that sounds so lame after watching that prefontaine guy run with an injury. when he finished his shoe was half-soaked with blood. -.- extreme siah.
oh yeah i just realised i have a pretty big dilemma. i have 3 camps to go to: YU retreat, sec4 farewell and wesley YM camp, which i promised katho i'd go for. but YU retreat is this friday to sunday, and if i go, i can't hand in my YM camp form (supposed to hand it in latest this sunday), i'll miss training at turf city on friday and i'll miss dance class and look like an idiot the next lesson. and i won't even be able to make it for the next lesson, actually, cos the YM camp is from wednesday to saturday. so it means i'll be missing two lessons! (which means i'll be abandoning ruth to go by herself. and i won't see her for another 2 weeks!!)
so now my two choices are:
1. don't go for YU retreat. -hand in the form -go for training -go for dance class this week
2. don't go for YM camp. -go for dance class next week -go for whole sec4 farewell camp
oh no help help help. today's already wed!!! >_<