Monday: 100's on the minute. I felt pretty flat today so I only ran 16. Lifted weights.

Tuesday: Had to practice inside because it rained like cats anddogs. I biked indoors and pumped some iron.

Wednesday: Quality workout day. Ran 6 fast 150's on a hill.

Thursday: It rained like cats and dogs again. I did a rowingworkout indoors and then pumped iron. Friday: I was in a car accident. Took the day off.

Saturday: Took the day off again. I think being in that car accident made me put more of my life into perspective.

Sunday: My original workout schedule had me taking this day off, and despite only taking 2 days off with my accident I felt like it would be a good time to get back to my regular workout schedule. So, I took today off.

ROUND HERE

Yeah, so on Friday my twin brother Cassidy and I were in car accident. (As a side note, Cassidy is also a sprinter on Saint Thomas' track team.) So back to the story...Cassidy and I were driving up to Fargo, North Dakota for my old roommate's wedding. About 20 minutes into a 4-hour drive a car sped by us at about 100 mph, then preceded to merge into the lane of traffic we were in, and deliberately slammed on his brakes right in front of us. This caused us to take evasive action. We slammed on our brakes causing our car to spin. After doing 2 complete 360's we ended up blocking 3 lanes of traffic on the interstate. To say the least, it was quite an experience. Thankfully, no one was seriously hurt. And I would like to report Luke and Anna are now married. Congratulations guys!!

So to change the subject, why in the world has the NCAA decided to cut the length of the season for several sports? As an example, take a look at Division III track. Our season has been cut 2 weeks! Now the start of the D-III season doesn't officially begin until mid-November. This is absolutely ridiculous! Now there will be guys such as myself who have started fall training already who can't benefit from any technique work from a coach until Thanksgiving!!! My gosh!!! This was a brilliant idea by the NCAA!!! (Note the use of sarcasm in the last statement.) I thought fall training was supposed to be used as a means to get in shape, receive some technique work from the coach that you wouldn't otherwise receive during the regular season, get to meet the new freshman on the team and better bond with your teammates, and more importantly have some fun. Apparently, the NCAA doesn't hold these values about fall practice as strongly as myself or some of you other student-athletes.

LEADER OF THE PACK

The second installment of my Leader of the Pack Award goes to none other than Matt Schroeder This kid is tough as nails. Matt is a pole vaulter on the team who instead of doing the pole vault workouts has been doing the long sprinter workouts. Talk about being taken out of your element! Keep up the great work Matt!

WORDS OF WISDOM

This week's words of wisdom come courteously from Mr. Jack Handey:

"Instead of studying for finals, what about just going to the Bahamas and catching some rays? Maybe you'll flunk, but you might have flunked anyway; that's my point."