Saturday Nov. 12th

Today started at 8 am. I didn't have to go to work due to the a race. A bunch of us got excited after cross country for the Junior Olympics. Maybe we were still stinging for our disappointment at State. The race was held down the street from the Jeffco Stadium. I usually only go near the place for track meets. We ran to a JV meet on this same course during the season but I've never ran that course. A lot of the top guys from the county were there. The top runner from Wheat Ridge, Nick, is a pretty decent fellow (unlike that jerk from Green Mountain). Any who, I managed an 8th place finish but to be honest, it wasn’t nearly as big as districts even.  Picked up a medal and qualified for the National Meet in Maryland. No chance of going but at least I can put state behind me.  Melody Fairchild, a national caliber runner and state champ from Boulder was there. As my freshman friend Matt W.would say "she ain't bad". Then again, she is about as big as he is. Afterward, we went to breakfast with Tom B. and Wade at Village Inn. I rested at home when I returned then went to SW Plaza. Didn't spend too much. Mike and I didn't go out, we rented a movie instead. It wasn't too bad but I wasn't in the mood to watch it. I wrote a letter to a former camp flame..Lara Adams.  I met her at Sky Ranch (same as Patty) but she was much cuter. We wrote a few time and she even sent the words to "The Rose" one time. Never figured what that meant. Hey might as well take a shot.  I have to get a stamp tomorrow. I hope she still lives at the same place and writes back. I'll go to sleep tonight thinking of Shelley, Andrea, and Kristen; all currently have a place in my heart.

"Character is what you know you are. Not what others think you have"- Marva Collins