Blogs : Jason Richardson

Disney To Chapel Hill

We went to Disney in Orlando for our training trip this year. For a week we had two-a-days and weight room RIGHT after Christmas break so you know half the team was passing out left and right. I definitely needed the trip to get me back in shape because I saw more pigs fly than days I practiced over break. We ran a small meet at the end and ladies and gentlemen I got DRILLED!

Who in the hell told David Oliver and Joel Brown to line up on MY starting line at MY training trip meet in Orlando? I don't care if they train on the Disney track regularly! haha... So my teammates and I felt like we had been hit by a bus during the morning practice sessions, then the bus hit us again in reverse for the afternoon practice sessions because our legs were sore, heavy, and flat. We line up for the meet and the "Pro" club lines up with us. I'm in a wifebeater and some half tights, and they're dressed in their Nike gear and Malaysian hand crafted spikes with air cushions from Mt Everest or something! We looked like reject walk-ons! The gun goes off and all I see are azz and elbows! Apparently I thought it would be cute to give the competition a head start like we're racing in the gravel streets of the neighborhood. I was so tired from training that it felt like I was running in place. I smash hurdles left and right, endangered small children and my hamstring in the process, before I just laughed and stopped. By that time I cleared the second hurdle, it seem like David and Joel were leaning at the tape...WTF! We ran an electronic race, (well let me rephrase that...THEY ran an electronic race) and I found out later that they ran 7.4ish for 60H! So needless to say this blog is more of a WATCH OUT FOR DAVID AND JOEL post than a heads up about my future performance, lol!  One benefit is I now know what the Collegiate 60H Record race pattern looks like! 

BUT...

This weekend we head to a meet in NC and I intend to destroy the competition as I was destroyed, it only seems fair!, lol. I'm going to try and put down something nasty like the ladies in the 60Hs did this weekend. It's always an amazing feeling to punch your ticket for NC's the first meet, so that's my realistic goal. I've waited a long time to get back on the track and I will not waste a moments time in re-establishing myself on the hurdle scene. I will be fresh, and rested so my competition better get used to the contours of my bony BACK! ... (fyi i'm trying this new cocky thing; we'll see if it works!)

I have faith this season and the knowledge that all things will work out for my good. I can't see the finish line in some cases but I know that one day I will cross it victoriously. The absence of track has made my athletic heart grow more founder and I'm sure I'll be in a seemingly drug induced euphoria when I step on the NC track. I'll leave you with the quote that best describes my approach to this upcoming season...

"I Will Prepare and Some Day My Chance Will Come. " -Abraham Lincoln

Too funny..

3:59 PM, January 17, 2008 .. Posted by UnrTrack

The way you write this is too funny! It definitely entertaining to read. Good luck this weekend... and let me know how the cocky approach works for ya!

wow

9:07 PM, January 17, 2008 .. Posted by Anonymous

funny stuff man! keep it up....and good luck this weekend

LOL!

9:59 PM, January 17, 2008 .. Posted by missbri

I love it. I read about the same meet on David's personal blog and here I get to see a totally new take on it! Hilarious.