Blogs : Eric Simmons

A pretty poor week

All I can really say about last week is that I'm pretty glad it's over and done with. Last week was midterm week. I only had two midterms last week as one was the week before and the other class is a continuous group project where only the final grade matters. The midterms I did have though were of both extremes. I made a 100 on the Romantic Literature class midterm, and the Shakespeare midterm I did not even finish, neither did 85% of the rest of the class. Unless the grade is curved, which it should be, I don't expect anything over a 65 on it. Other than that, I was bogged down with reading and writing for my nonprofit's organization class. This week promises to be similar to the last, with the exception of midterms. I'm not thrilled.

As far as practice for last week, it was pretty roller coaster. Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday were mostly mileage and weights, so I'm not gonna sit here and bore you about that because it is what it sounds like. We kicked off last week with 10 200s under 32 seconds with 3 mins rest in between. If one member didn't make the time, an extra one was added for the entire group. On top of that, we did it on the perimeter of the soccer field during practice which gave the feel of us sprinting around a sh*tty indoor track. The first group of Lawrence, Nate, Chris, and myself hit all the times. For myself, I ran 28, 29, 28, 28, 29, 28, 30, 30, 27, 26, which is not bad at all, buty my legs felt pretty effing horrible afterwards and I hopped in the whirlpool. After that, I went to class smelling like grass and a whirlpool and stared blankly at the professor while being annoyed by someone that sits beside me.

Wednesday was 4 600s with 3 mins rest. Clive really didn't give us a time to run, but when we ran the first 2 he wasn't too thrilled with consecutive 1:50s. The second two I ran 1:46 and 1:43, and Chris was up there with 1:46 and 1:46. With my ankle jacked up the way it is, it's hard for me to do the long workouts because it starts to get progressively sore as the workout goes on. So, to sum up this workout, it was good, it was beneficial, but I'll be damned if it didn't suck.

Saturday practice (yeah, I know, we actually have that nonsense) was a good workout, but bad in the sense that it was 6x100 at 85% with a walkback rest, which is the first day that we have remotely sprinted. I brought the spikes out from the depths of the region known as under my bed just to see how my ankle felt in them. The first 100 was untimed, but the second was 11.06 and the 3rd was 10.80. After the first three, I put back on my flats and ran 11.2, 11.3, and 11.3 again. It was good to see that I had a decent amount of speed, and that my hamstring didn't fold up and die after the workout. I was sore as hell later that day and am right now, but it'll go away.

After practice Saturday, I went home to Carrollton, which is only an hour away from my school. I hardly ever go home, which is pretty effing poor considering I only live an hour away. I got there, had some good ole home cooking (baked tilapia and rice) and chilled out with my parents and my cousin. After that, I went to watch West Georgia play West Alabama, which was actually a good game that came down to a last second field goal to give West Georgia the win. I took my "godkids" with me, two seven year old twins, because they don't really get to go anywhere other than outside in the neighborhood to play, and that they complained about how I seem to "leave and not come back for a long time sometimes". After the game, I saw someone who may have been the person I was the closest with my senior year in high school, so I hung out with her for a while. It had been so long since I had really had a conversation with her that it really dawned on me during that I suck at going home sometimes and keeping in touch with certain people. I guess I'm going to try and improve on that.

Well, that's about it for this journal. I apologize for not having anything interesting like a party where there were 21 girls for every guy or a high speed car chase. It's most likely because I was broke and still recovering from the psychological effects that the Shakespeare midterm had on me. I shall return next week, and as always, I hope something interesting happens that I can share with you all.

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