Posts Tagged: Spring break

I don’t think I could of started Spring Break off any better. I got up around 7, talked with my dad for a little bit and then hit the road for a run. I chugged along for 8.65 miles, in 1:26, which is a slower pace for me. I started in downtown Woodburn and ran to the back roads, up and over I-5, along the rows of orchards and vinyards. The sun was still fairly low in the sky barely obscured by the light clouds, my initial feelings of being cold had worn off by the first mile. I don’t think I came across five cars as I stomped the soft shoulder. All the songs that played were good ones, usually of a faster tempo so I at least feel like I’m running faster. I rounded back into Woodburn and got my usual feeling of I could of or should have gone futher. When I walked back into the house, everyone was up and talking. Really, it was just a perfect and peaceful beginning to the day and the break.

Halfway through Spring Break and I am already exhausted, not from lack of sleep, but because I’ve been active. Went to Port Townsend on Friday, it was a great old town, with many of its original buildings intact. Plus, it was two seconds from the beach and thirty minutes from the top of a mountain. [...]

It has been a long while since I’ve written here, in my defense, winter term was the hardest/ most intense/ most stressful term I have ever had. Through a battery of tests (PRAXIS I, GRE, PRAXIS II, MAT), a full schedule of classes, sixty hours of working at Edison, and working at Carson–I was everywhere [...]