Is it the motivation? or is it the change in feelings… November 25, 2005
Posted by clayton in : workout , add a commentAnother "today" starts, I wake up at 7am, I have this awful headache which most likely came from sleeplessness. I only slept for what? 4hours? My cat kept on moving around making noises and I couldn't get him to go back to bed. I was expecting another day of awful weather with some "forcing myself to study" just because it's test week. I need to get used to this so-called "study" thing. I know I won't use most of the "crap" once I get a job or something but I need it just to get in college. Anyway, it was planned to be another day in the dark and guess what? Plans were changed 180degrees (I wanna add another 180 but then I'll go back to the beginning so…) The sun was out!!! How long has it been since I last saw the sun? 2weeks?(exaggerating) awwww, how nice 
Had a GREAT 26km mtb ride and a GREAT 16km run to end the day.
The best part of heading to the theater was that my friends and I decided to go with our bikes. There were only about 10 people who went with their bikes out of the 1320 students and they thought we were stupid or something. Ofcourse we think they're stupid…hehe. Most of them took either a taxi or a bus to the theater that's about 13km away from school. And yes, the school gave each student about $5 to get there which my friends and I were able to keep in our pockets…have a nice bike ride and earn money!!!! I wish I could have this as my lifetime job or something. The other students don't know the fun of cycling, that's just an opinion ofcourse…I don't wanna get the whole school against me 
But I think that they worry too much about time. Why do they wanna get there so early? I don't have the answer and am pretty sure that even if someone tells me it, I wouldn't understand.
The fun of cycling: Communication!!! I mean it, my friends and I were talking and laughing the whole way to the theater, taking our time. We got there in an hour or so and had plenty of time to eat lunch while the other students got there in 20minutes and most of them were in front of the entrance, waiting for the doors to open. Hey, why so early? Well, to tell the truth, my friends were thinking about taking a bus or a taxi too but I kinda "dragged" them on the bike but guess what? They said it was a good thing that we went with our bike. While most of the students asked, "how were the hills?" Yes, it is hilly but see, we're talking and riding, hills aren't a tough thing to get over if you take it easy, forgetting about time. That's why cycling is fun, right?
The run: This was also cool!!! I ran 15km in 59min!!!! I ran the first lap at a high pace as usual and the reason that I do this is because there's a bit of a challenge waiting at the end. I like to test myself to see how much I could resist. And my challenge is to beat my first lap time on the last lap. Am I weird? It's not like I thought hard about training to get to this test but it came naturally to my mind. I did run 16km, 15km run + 1km cool down. I think this was the best run I've had in my life. Everything just went so smooth, didn't run out of breath even when I attacked my imaginary self whom always runs in front of me. My lap times were 1st 9:39, 2nd 10:18, 3rd 10:10, 4th 10:05, 5th 9:57, 6th 9:39, total time 59:52.08+1km cool down (6min?). To be exact, my 1st lap was 9:39.73 and my 6th lap was 9:39.93, darn it!!! I was sooo close!!!! But all in all, it was a GREAT run Looking back at yesterday's run, I just wonder what in the world brought me to this great run in a day, especially with the sleeplessness.
Tomorrow: I'll have a 10km run, should I try for a PR? I'll see how it goes. After that, I'll study a whole bunch and then go for a swim which reminds me…I have 7days and a few hours till I get into the swimming pool with the "big" guys. I'm more excited than nervous because I know it'll do a lot of good to me.