raw.

7 miles last night in the raw rain and wind. i loved every minute of it. this is by far my favorite weather to run in. weather i dreaded when i was training to race on two wheels. i also dreaded wind. and darkness. pretty much any weather we had bred a little dissappointment...

my outlook on life has greatly changed over the past 6 months. last summer i felt like i had become bitter little man, someone that nobody really wanted to be around. i knew something had to change. so i took up a different hobby. i started to read more. i've reduced my tv hours. i got into graduate school. i'm working towards a promotion at work.

i think the problem was that i became really complacent and non-pro-active (beware the elusive double hyphen).

and now i feel smarter. i feel more 'with it.' i feel...good.

so, i mentioned i have reduced my television time? well, that may go out the window now that baseball is starting. although we may be getting rid of cable so that would help...

the other night fox sports was televising game 4 of the 1982 world series. man that team was good...yount, molitor, cooper, thomas, ganter, simmons, money...the list goes on. and to see the manager go out to the mound to make a pitching change with a prosthetic limb-limp had to put a little fear in opposing players. maybe ned yost should start limping a little? here is to the current pitching rotation staying healthy...

happy thursday.