Blogs : Jason Richardson

Another Day, Another Entry

Here I go…

I had plantar fasciitis in my left foot, which accounted for the pain and discomfort.  It actually went away the following week, but for that week of pain coupled with my determination to train hard, your boy was ready to bite his damn tongue off.  Right now my body actually feels great.  My strength levels have improved, mainly cause I’ve actually been going to the weight room consistently.  I’ll never have normal muscularity (God did it on purpose cause I woulda been a stripper, haha, lol) so I’ve accepted I wont be getting any singles stuffed in my half tights and I better stick to just making small gains.  I still have the upper body strength of a 12 year old, so I won’t hold my breath on becoming a bodybuilder either.

Workouts have been better for me, and I’m rounding back into shape.  For a minute, I thought about switching to table tennis, or badminton or some other sport that doesn’t require Fall training, but alas…I’m starting to run like the old me and yall know what that means…

School sucks and I’ve come to the realization that college would be a hell of a lot better if you didn’t have to go to class.  I found out I only needed 2 classes to complete my major so I wanted to take mad easy classes to get my 12 hours but no… I HAD... to listen to my honors college advisor…who told me he’d find me some easy and fun classes (I took a harmonic class sophomore year, and it was stupid funny).

He LIED people… the man LIED!  Last time I checked a pros seminar on Contemporary Art is not fun, nor is a class on Postmodern Blackness in Contemporary African American Literature!  I don’t read unless I’m bored, or my butt is on some china with some air freshener at my feet.  In the case of my Afro lit class, when she said she graduate from Hampton, I was thinking, ‘yes…she’s been in a black academic setting and she’s gonna help a bruh out’… then she went on to say she earned her Ph.D from Yale, I said, “well…there went THAT idea!’  I barely keep up with these classes and they’re 10 xs harder than the 2 required courses I have to take.  My Contemporary Arts teacher freaks me the hell out.  He’s allergic to brushing his hair and seems a lil’ off in the head (which I’m definitely sure means he’s a GENIUS).  Now maybe I’m just not trying hard enough, but I be damned if I’m supposed to look at a picture with a red triangle in the middle and talk about how its masculinity is representative of abstract expressionist principles of Dada influence avant gard!  And I wonder why I fell asleep and hit my head on the wall last class.   Life’s not fair and neither was my advisor, lol

Socially, I’m out of control but I’ll slow down after thanksgiving.  I doubt there’s been a party that I’ve missed this semester and if it weren’t for the fact that my teammates are with me, I would have stopped earlier.  Now… don’t go around talking about USC is a party school…that would be stupid… lets just say we subscribe to the idea that ‘All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy!’  While other athletes are training hard, hitting the books, and soaking their muscle in goat milk over the weekends… we have fun on the weekends cause team moral and building team chemistry is more valuable than most athletes will ever realize until it’s too late.  The team is honestly an extension of my family, and when we shock some critics this season; we won’t be surprised because we’ve always believed in each other.

With that said, our men’s team is going to be crazy.  I’ve already penciled down 20 points for myself in the hurdles, and with our freshman phenom Dutch and our Finnish import Jussi in the intermediates, we’re trying to take over the hurdle game and score 324,504 points in the hurdles alone.  Am I being presumptuous for saying I‘ve already won both hurdles- ABSOLUTELY!  But the power of life and death is in the tongue, so I’m gonna speak my double victory, graduation in May, my 6 figure contract, and my commercial for Pro-Active (cause you know I got that coco butter smooth skin, haha).

I really want some reader’s ideas of content to address in my blogs.  I usually talk out the side of my neck most times, but I really do want to address topics or questions cause as I keep writing these blogs off the top of my head… I realize I’m starting to sound crazier and crazier by the post (I’ve already admitted to liking the smell of gasoline, wtf?).  Meets haven’t started yet, so its good time to just talk about general stuff before I do meet recaps.  So hit me up on myspace.com/jairich and let me know.

Imma leave with two quotes of the week that I was feelin.

“The Visionary Lies To Himself, the Liar Only to Others." --Friedrich Nietzsche

"Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, if you are not willing to move your feet." – Unknown

Till we meet again…

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8:10 PM, October 26, 2007 .. Posted by TR400

Your blog entries continue to be very enriching, humorus and inspirational. This is your year to get what yours, and i look forward to have some cool conversations with you on the way to China.

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3:13 AM, October 27, 2007 .. Posted by Anonymous

your post was great as usual. a topic you could discuss could be your opinion on the whole doping thing going down in the track world and how it effects you as a future olympic athlete (God willing, I know you will go far).

I also like the smell of gasoline.....

10:27 PM, October 27, 2007 .. Posted by Johnny

......along with Playdough, Pez, and chlorine. Any blogs on your thoughts about track and field as an entity and what it might take for our sport to be seen as a sport of interest for just the average joe. And also, what are your thoughts on TV announcers who say football players have "Olympic speed" when they run for a 40 yd. touchdown, does that piss you off at all? Cause it drives me nuts.

Luv Ur Blog!

6:34 PM, October 31, 2007 .. Posted by Anonymous

Hey Jace! I absolutely love the blog. I can DEFINITELY relate to the "whack" advising some of those professors call themselves doing. Well keep writing these things, I think they're hilarious.
And more importantly ... KEEP DOING YOU! It's all that matters. :)

Sorry about that ...

6:41 PM, October 31, 2007 .. Posted by Anonymous

I'm crazy. I just posted that comment "Luv Ur Blog" thinking you would know who wrote it ... it's me, Nikki from the "crib", St. John etc. LOL! Hope all is well hunn!