Not-So-Fun Run Bites My Face Off 5:05 PM

In preparation to become a warrior, I decided to do a little trail running a couple days a week...

...and today was the first. This is the exact round-trip route I took from my house:

It's exactly 5.9 miles(C is the starting point). I plotted the course on Google Maps, strapped on my running gear, picked up my MP3 player, and headed out. It seemed easy enough. Back in my cross-country days, we would do something similar for practice nearly five times a week.

Hah yeah. Those days are over.

I hate hate hate HATE-FREAKING-DIE this route. If you know anything about Palos Verdes, there are a lot of hills. And SOMEHOW(I don't even know how this is possible), this route mostly takes me uphill. I was panting, I was sweating, I was swearing(good-word swearing), and I was thirsty. It took me an hour and a half when it should have taken me fifty minutes.

AND if you've ever driven to my house you might know about the street Via Valmonte... which is a 0.9 mile 25 degree-ish uphill climb. I virtually crawled up that.

Anyway, I'm gonna keep at it, but I'm gonna shorten my route next time until I can do better.

5.9 mile run biting my face off FTW!

Warrior Dash 2:06 AM

If you are like me, you will do this.

Because this is awesome. It's a 3.08 mile obstacle-course race through tires, forests, trucks, mud, and more. Free beer served all day, and.... and what? I don't know. That's all I needed to hear.

Sign up now.

Yes! You Can Has! 3:30 PM

This entry is a response to Andy's recent post.

(Didn't post this in his comments sections because I wanted to open with that hilarious cat picture haha... The article can be found here)

This subject is simple to me. To me, a mature person is one and the same as a spiritual person. We were created by Jehovah, and to reach the full extent of our "growth" we need to align ourselves with what he purposed us to be: His servants, made in his image. This is in accord with what we know about spirituality in that a spiritual person is one who looks at things from Jehovah's point of view; is a God-orientated thinker.

Experience is often a fickle factor in one's pressing on to maturity; more integral to doing so is training. Just as you pointed out, people can come to completely different conclusions from one experience. But continual training, namely spiritual training, will in itself help us to reach maturity and also help us to glean the right lessons from experience. We all know what such training entails, so I won't get into that.

I'm already getting lazy so I'm going to stop now. How in the world did you write all that, Andy?

Life Update #1 8:34 PM

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......

I have nothing in particular to write about, but I believe a new entry is due. This happens every once in a while, and I figure the life of blogs is in regularity. Therefore, I plan to do "Life Updates" as filler entries, so my readers at least have something to see during those long stretches of blog inactivity. So here is Life Update #1:

I accidentally erased everything on my iPhone. Suck!

It's okay, because I had everything backed up.

I almost died today while driving on PCH; a car diagonal to me hits a large puddle and sprays an inexplicably large amount of water on my windshield, effectively rendering me blind for about three whole seconds. My car slightly hydroplanes as a result of an instinctive depression of the brakes. I hold in my pee. Barely.

I read the wikiHow article "How to Overcome Laziness."

Didn't remember much from it.

I went ice-skating for the second time in like... ten years.

I went over my required Pioneering hours last month, a first in years.

I'm running low on shampoo.

I learned how to properly hold an infant baby. I'm like pro at it now that baby loves me.

I discovered redbox. I'm seriously contemplating canceling my Netflix account now, as I realize that I'll be saving money as I only rent about six DVD's a month. It has something to do with my outrageous laziness.

I'm also running low on hairspray.

New Year's Resolution Haiku Set 12:09 AM

A Haiku set, by Eugene Choi

"I'm Going to Gain Fifteen Pounds of Handsome"

I weigh one-twenty

If I gain fifteen more pounds

I'm one-thirty-five

"Let Me Tell You How I'm Going to Do That"

Lift three times weekly

Eat three more small meals a day

Drink protein shakes yay

"What? You Think I'll Fail?"

I think your mom failed

When she gave birth to you hah!

Sorry man, bad joke

"Gosh, You're So Sensitive"

Geez man, I'm joking

I bet you're counting fingers

As you read my lines