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Well, it's Friday night around 9:30 or so and I'm getting ready to go to bed...so the life of a college track athlete. I think the latest I've been up on a Friday night since the season started was maybe 10:30 or so. This will possibly be my last indoor track meet. If I run under 16:05 in the 5K at St. Olaf tomorrow, I will most likely get to run at the conference meet in Stevens Point next weekend, but I will have to improve my time by 41 seconds in order to do that. It's gonna be tough, but I gotta go for it. The positive is that I have Bobby and Eric also going for the same goal with me so we can work together to try and get that time.
It's been an up and down week for me I guess. It was busy with classes and tests up until today when I only had one class which was nice. Practice has been pretty good, we've running shorter, easier workouts this week to prepare for tomorrow's meet. However, I've been feeling weird about my relationship with my roommate Kyle lately. We get along extremely well about 90% of the time, I mean we're runners, we obviously share a lot in common and can relate to each other that way. But he's been dealing with a lot of issues with his significant other for a few weeks now. He comes to me to vent and get his feelings out and I'm glad he does because that lets me know he trusts me, but now he's coming to me and talking to me every single night about every intimate conversation he's been having with her. He lets all his frustrations out and decides what he is going to say to her next and basically let her have it (quite frankly, she kinda treats him like dirt), but then he never pulls the trigger on her. I keep telling him that he's gotta tell her or he'll never get past this, regardless of how it turns out.
Kyle's home for the weekend and is going to see her tonight, so it'll be interesting to see how that goes. I'm kinda glad that he is gone this weekend, I need some time to really have to myself and to spend some time with a few friends here that I haven't had an opportunity to hang out with. Don't get me wrong, Kyle is a great guy, but he and I don't always see eye to eye on things. There are times I wish he weren't my roommate but then I realize that he is one of my best friends and even though we have our moments, I think it's good for me to see how another person views situations and how it can differ so greatly from my viewpoint. I'm going to encounter many people like this as a teacher and coach someday, and I guess it's good I get my real first taste of this with someone I consider a good friend.
Well, I guess my ranting and raving is over for the night. Gotta get some rest. I'll be home again finally in two weeks, hopefully I get a chance to see a few of you.
God Bless,
- Brandon
It's been an up and down week for me I guess. It was busy with classes and tests up until today when I only had one class which was nice. Practice has been pretty good, we've running shorter, easier workouts this week to prepare for tomorrow's meet. However, I've been feeling weird about my relationship with my roommate Kyle lately. We get along extremely well about 90% of the time, I mean we're runners, we obviously share a lot in common and can relate to each other that way. But he's been dealing with a lot of issues with his significant other for a few weeks now. He comes to me to vent and get his feelings out and I'm glad he does because that lets me know he trusts me, but now he's coming to me and talking to me every single night about every intimate conversation he's been having with her. He lets all his frustrations out and decides what he is going to say to her next and basically let her have it (quite frankly, she kinda treats him like dirt), but then he never pulls the trigger on her. I keep telling him that he's gotta tell her or he'll never get past this, regardless of how it turns out.
Kyle's home for the weekend and is going to see her tonight, so it'll be interesting to see how that goes. I'm kinda glad that he is gone this weekend, I need some time to really have to myself and to spend some time with a few friends here that I haven't had an opportunity to hang out with. Don't get me wrong, Kyle is a great guy, but he and I don't always see eye to eye on things. There are times I wish he weren't my roommate but then I realize that he is one of my best friends and even though we have our moments, I think it's good for me to see how another person views situations and how it can differ so greatly from my viewpoint. I'm going to encounter many people like this as a teacher and coach someday, and I guess it's good I get my real first taste of this with someone I consider a good friend.
Well, I guess my ranting and raving is over for the night. Gotta get some rest. I'll be home again finally in two weeks, hopefully I get a chance to see a few of you.
God Bless,
- Brandon