Running,School, and You

Hell is Over

dlasker20 — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:32:04 +0000

Finals finally came to an end yesterday, and man did they suck. My finals we not that bad, but its not fun having to re-learn everything just for one test. The thing thats so weird this year is that our last day was a day before Christmas Eve, when usually we get off the week of. For this reason it doesn’t even fell like Christmas is tomorrow. Speaking of Christmas and finals leave me a comment letting me know how your finals went and what your looking forward to on
Christmas day.

Final Passout

dlasker20 — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:13:18 +0000

I was reading a book my language teacher suggested since I exempted her final, when something very interesting happened. While reading a kid in front of me who I would consider a friend began to drift off it seemed, but it was far worse than that. He slid out of his chair and nailed his head on the ground. he was out cold for probably about three seconds. At this point my language teacher, who had never seen something like this in her 31 years of teaching, was freaking out. She ran into the hall franticly but realizing no one could help her in the hall ran back grabbed the phone and called for help. The kid slowly got up and the kids around him steadied him. He ended up fine he probably just passed out from all the stress. Trust me my language arts teacher’s final could do it to anyone.

My Running Shoes

dlasker20 — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:18:35 +0000

Most people say the shoes don’t make the runner, but in my case they have surely helped. The shoes i wear are the Nike Frees 3.0 I have raggedy, worn in, white pair which i use to run in, and a cool black and neon pair which i wear to school. This shoes claim to fame is that it has a completely flexible bottom, which allows your foot to bend freely giving you a more barefoot like running sensation. Since the bottom of the frees are flexible and your foot bends with them you work new muscles when running, there by strengthening your legs. Ever since I started wearing I feel like my legs are stronger plus my shin splints went away. This shoe is more for forefoot runners and they take some getting used to. If your not a forefoot runner I recommend the Newtons, which my uncle owns, The Newtons help you become a forefoot runner. I defiantly recommend checking the Frees out, because they have surely helped me become a better runner.

Passing Time While Running

dlasker20 — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:49:33 +0000

As the winter weather moves in and your running begins to shift indoors ellipticaling and treadmilling can become very boring. Yes, listening to music helps pass the time but listening to songs eventually becomes boring. What I have found is that watching videos significantly eats up that boring time. The easiest way to watch videos is simply on you tube on an itouch. Since i have a silicon case on my iPod I put it up on the elliptical dashboard and i doesn’t slide down. There you have it you have your own little t.v. which makes working out indoors so much more enjoyable.

How much you can screw up

dlasker20 — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:18:59 +0000

As finals aproach you as many are probally wondering how do I check what I can get on my final to still keep what grade I want in that class. Well I am here to help it is actually pretty simple all you do is you take the grade you want to get times five then subtract it by the grade you have for the semester times four. Bam! you are left with how much you can screw up on your final and still keep the grade you want.(if you don’t know your semester grade it is easy to calculate it is just the grade you have for both quarters added together divided by two)

Awesome Teen Reads

dlasker20 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:16:41 +0000

In language arts class we had to choose 2 gateway novels to read, so that we can do a book report on them next quarter. I ended up reading three because they were so good, but then again the should be since librarians recommended them. The novels revolve mainly around teens who face obstacles and have to learn how to deal with them and deal with the pressures of adolescence. Below are the three books I read and the rating they received.

~Peak (4 stars)

Peak was a very quick read, yet it was a very interesting one. In the story peak a teenage get arrested for climbing a skyscraper, and has no choice but to go live with his dad who wants him to take on Mt. Everest. It was a very well written story with good themes, however it did make climbing Everest really easy. I recommended this book because it is a quick fun read, which is well written.

~Unwind (3 ½ stars)

Unwind was a very interesting story about how instead of abortion a parent could sentence a kids to be unwound if they did not like how they turned out. I will let you find out what unwinding is all for your self, lets just says it is not pretty. Unwind was a good book a little lengthy and a little to extreme, however I was a entertaining book for the most part which I recommend you pick up.

~Thirteen Reasons Why (4 ½ stars)

Thirteen Reasons Why was defiantly the best read out of these three. This is the best mainly because it tells straight up how the lives of teens are and how overwhelming they can be. I enjoyed this book because it has an interesting back and forth dialogue which really makes you feel the emotion of Hannah while she tells Clay the reasons she committed suicide. If your going to pick up a read I would recommend you pick up this one.