Why rolling your ankle multiple times isn’t always a bad thing October 24, 2005
Posted by Aaron in : Life, Play , trackback… or How I spent my weekend
So this was homecoming weekend at greenville college. As per house tradition, a group of us decended upon the town (well ok I was already here, but still). I made the mistake of giving away more beds than I have. My mom was passing somewhat close to greenville (within a state) and decided to come watch the race, she ended up getting to sleep on the couch since she was the only one short enough to be able to do that. Tim got the small bed and I shared the big bed with Brad. After some joking around eventually all fell asleep.
Saturday was race day. As hoped Luke turned up for the race too. Luke and I basicly ran the race together (until he decided to start kicking at 800 meters to go, for you non-metric/non-track types, thats a half a mile from the finish line). I did speed up with Luke but let him go when I realized how much faster he intended to run that last half in. I caught a student with a long block to go, I could tell he didn’t want to let me beat him. On a whim I decided to start my final kick a touch early (by about a quarter of a block) hoping to break him. Much to my surprise it didn’t work, which tells me a great deal about the condition of my final kick these days. More surprising was that this unexpected event didn’t end in him beating me as my burst ran out a quarter block early, stubbornly we both glued to each other side by side. Neither of us broke and if there was a winner of this sprint then it was only by inches. Luke of course beat me by a minute or two, I hope to have a picture up from his finish. While I was unsuccessfull at breaking my competitor in the final dash, Luke was not and there is a beautiful picture of him passing his former professor.
Lots more happened and since I’m finishing up this post a week after I started it I won’t go into all the details. Sufficient to say the rest of the day we watched some tennis, a lot of football and some soccer. My feet and ankles were incredibly sore by the end of it as I spent most of the day on my feet after running 3.1 miles. Oh and we ate at Changs, which only those familiar with Greenville will appreciate.
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