Ha! How cool is that!?
Then, the next day, I got another message from Lance telling me contratulations for running my farthest distance yet.
Thanks Lance!
I just finished my seventh run with the nike+ iPod deal. And it works out that i've been running every other day. Not to shabby. And I just found out I can share my last 5 runs with everybody. Below is my pace chart for my last five runs. It's shows my time and distance. So when the line drops, I slowed down, when the line goes up, I ran a little faster. Just click on the little black arrows to see the different runs.
My high school coach used to give us these charts after each race. They were a great tool to see how well we kept our pace during a run. A good runners line went straight across, or went up. (Stayed the same speed, or sped up) Mine pretty much went straight down. The charts were on these half sheets of paper with a grid of time intervals on them. He'd use a highlighter to draw a line from the half-mile, mile, mile and half... etc points. It wasn't until my senior year that I had a three-mile time that existed on that chart. Yea, I was pretty slow.
Anyway, I'm feel like a million bucks and misty said I was dissapearing. So that's good.
Right now, I'm 2/3 the way through a football weekend trifecta. After Monday night, I'll have shot three levels of football. Friday night I shot Vandebilt beat Holy Cross. Saturday I shot LSU beat South Carolina and Monday, I'm shooting the Saints versus Titans game in the Dome.
I had a couple of these trifectas last year, and one when I worked in Topeka. Makes for a long, but fun weekend. And if the Saint win, All three home teams will have won.
The High School game this week was pretty uneventful. Pretty average game. Vandebilt won big in a game that was supposed to be close. One funny thing happened during this game though... During the thrid quarter at Vandebilt games, the announcer dude will say something along the lines of... "It happend today, but read about it tomorrow in the Houma Courier. Vandebilt welcomes (insert sports writers name) to the stadium." No love for the photographer. None. This week however, one of the parent photogs on the sideline noticed that they didn't say my name and said "That's an outrage, I'll take care of that... Hey Bill! Come over here!" (not sure of the guys name, so I just used Bill)
Oh Geeze... really, it's not that big of a deal I told him. But he introduced me to Bill who's an administrator a the school. The photog told Bill what was up and Bill said "Well, that's crazy, I'll take care of that for you."
I just laughed and said "it's really not that big of a deal."
So we'll see what happens next Vandebilt game.
Saturday morning, I woke up and started to get ready for the LSU game. Misty was coming over at 9:30 and were were going to head to Baton Rouge. That sub-tropical whatever storm thing was supposed to dump some rain on us during the day so I packed a little bag with my rain gear (for both me and my cameras)
Misty was right on time, we loaded everything into her new car (A silver Dodge Magnum) and took off. We finally found a parking space after sitting in non-moving traffic forever. I was already frustrated because of the traffic and having to park a mile away, but we had plenty of time. I grabbed everything then noticed that I had forgot my little bag with all my rain gear.
Just Awesome... Fricken Awesome.
I won't say what I did or said for the next few minutes, If you really want to know, misty might tell you. But I wont.
But Misty had some trashbags and I had tape and rubber bands, so at least I could protect my camera gear. I could handle getting wet, but I have to protect my cameras.
During the walk to the stadium, Misty lost her Debit card and Drivers liscense. So I felt like a total bafoon for getting so upset for leaving something at home.
So I got a little wet... ok, a lot wet... but my cameras were dry, I made some nice pictures and Misty and I even got a little face time on CBS.
Here's Misty and I mid 1st quarter when a play went out of bounds a few feet from Misty. She's in the bottom center in black. I'm in white on the left.
And here's me and the South Carolina punter late in the second quarter.
I haven't looked at the second half yet. I was on the other side of the field for the second half and Misty stayed on that side. SO I'm sure there are a couple more Misty sightings.
Here are a few other shots from the game. A pass break up in the second half. A celebration after a fake field goal for a touchdown by #6. And a diving touchdown.
