Day Numéro Deux

So here we are again after another longg school day. Day 4's are absolutely ridiculous for me.. the middle of my day has a stretch with math, english, half of lunch, physics lab, and spanish. No study hall, no psychology. Not fun at all.
On another note, I found a very inspiring story today which truly puts the important things in life into perspective. It goes like this:

January 3, 2007
Man Is Rescued by Stranger on Subway Tracks
By CARA BUCKLEY
It was every subway rider’s nightmare, times two.
Who has ridden along New York’s 656 miles of subway lines and not wondered: “What if I fell to the tracks as a train came in? What would I do?”
And who has not thought: “What if someone else fell? Would I jump to the rescue?”
Wesley Autrey, a 50-year-old construction worker and Navy veteran, faced both those questions in a flashing instant yesterday, and got his answers almost as quickly.
Mr. Autrey was waiting for the downtown local at 137th Street and Broadway in Manhattan around 12:45 p.m. He was taking his two daughters, Syshe, 4, and Shuqui, 6, home before work.
Nearby, a man collapsed, his body convulsing. Mr. Autrey and two women rushed to help, he said. The man, Cameron Hollopeter, 20, managed to get up, but then stumbled to the platform edge and fell to the tracks, between the two rails.
The headlights of the No. 1 train appeared. “I had to make a split decision,” Mr. Autrey said.
So he made one, and leapt.
Mr. Autrey lay on Mr. Hollopeter, his heart pounding, pressing him down in a space roughly a foot deep. The train’s brakes screeched, but it could not stop in time.
Five cars rolled overhead before the train stopped, the cars passing inches from his head, smudging his blue knit cap with grease. Mr. Autrey heard onlookers’ screams. “We’re O.K. down here,” he yelled, “but I’ve got two daughters up there. Let them know their father’s O.K.” He heard cries of wonder, and applause.
Power was cut, and workers got them out. Mr. Hollopeter, a student at the New York Film Academy, was taken to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center. He had only bumps and bruises, said his grandfather, Jeff Friedman. The police said it appeared that Mr. Hollopeter had suffered a seizure.
Mr. Autrey refused medical help, because, he said, nothing was wrong. He did visit Mr. Hollopeter in the hospital before heading to his night shift. “I don’t feel like I did something spectacular; I just saw someone who needed help,” Mr. Autrey said. “I did what I felt was right.”
(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/nyregion/03life.html?_r=3&ex=157680000&en=07bb34bc4fee56ae&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin)

As running goes today was not really that special. I ran a mile warmup, stretched, and jogged a couple more miles, then finished with 5 strides. The race tomorrow will really be a test though, as I feel I am not in top shape right now. Then after the race tomorrow we have the weekend, thank God, this week seemed to go on forever.

Day Numero Uno

Here we go with this... I guess I'm gonna give it a try. Just got back from todays basketball game, we pwnd those Newark Central noobs winning by like 20 or something. Earlier today I had a killer track workout. Getting my wisdom teeth out last Thursday caused me to have to take off 4 days (ran for first time yesterday) which murdered my stamina, and I really felt it today. The workout was 30 min of fartlek running, which is like on and off speed work. I did 2 minutes easy, 1 minute hard, 1 minute easy, 2 minutes hard for five times. In the beginning I felt great, but at about the 4th set i started to get real tired.. We'll see how I do at the Iron Hills Conference race on Friday. I am set to run the 1600 meters (mile) and the 1000 meters (little over half mile). I think I am kind of out of shape but who knows. Goals: 4:40 in the mile and whatever I have left in the 1000. Outside of running I am still busy with college applications. Deadlines for my favorite schools, Denison and Stonehill, are on the 15th, so I am still scraping that stuff together. But, I'm not terribly stressed about it; getting back 2 acceptence letters so far definitely makes my life easier. I'm out for now..
-Mike