Clay6618

  My name's Clay Holton, and here's the very basic, need to know stuff. In case you don't feel like reading my whole profile. I'm 19. I go to ASU. I'm a Christian. I love running. Most importantly I have an amazing girlfriend named Sarah Brittney Nicole Browning. Me and Sarah have been through a lot together. We've had our ups, and we've definitely had our downs. But I know now that she is the right girl for me and I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I can honestly say that without one ounce of doubt. I love her with all my heart, and nothing's going to change that. I went to Hephzibah High School from 2003 to 2007. Class of 07 graduate. High School had its ups and downs but overall I liked it. I met some of the best friends I have there, even though I don't get to keep up with as many of them as I'd like. I also got to know a lot of great teachers, coaches and instructors while I went there. These are just a few that had the biggest impact on me: Coach Klofenstine (K), Colonel Long, Sergeant Major Horton, Sergeant Faison, Mrs. M Robinson, Mrs. Figueroa-Young, Mrs. Hoover, Dr. Seigler, and many more, most not worth mentioning. Now I go to Paine College though. I got a full ride with academic scholarships, a track/cross country scholarship and some financial aid, so it's pretty cool that I get to go to a school that costs $10,000+ to go to a year for free other than living and travel expenses. I don't live that far from there anyway though. It's pretty cool there too. Everyone seems nice, and the rules are WAY more lenient than high school. Now I actually get to wear gym shorts and sleeveless shirts everyday to school, which is awesome. The people there all seem pretty nice too. Pretty much I just can't wait to get situated into my classes and running track and cross country there. I run Track and Cross Country for my school and I'm the only white boy on the team. Running is a major part of my life and I run everyday. It's not the only thing my life is about just about 90% percent of it. Running to me is like brushing your teeth, it's something you HAVE to do everyday. A majority of my running, especially during high school, was done at the Hephzibah Community Center Track. When i lived over there that was my home away from home. Sure it may have been made of asphalt and it wasn't exactly measured perfectly (3 laps is a little over a mile) but I owe almost all of my success in high school to that track. A lot of people ask me "Why do you run?", and there's really no simple answer to that. There's a lot really. 1.I never have to worry about what I eat or gaining weight 2.You get medals and trophies and stuff. 3rd and most importantly it shows you just how far you can push yourself. In most sports you have limits to what you can and cannot do, but in running you get out of it what you put into it. Like for example in middle school I could barely run a mile, but then I started running. I've been getting progressively better each year, and now I'm one of the best runners in Richmond County. I run a lot of 5K road races and I run the 1600m, and 3200m for track. I've even run the 4x4 and 800m once or twice. The farthest I've ever ran at one time is 18 miles, and the highest miles per week (mpw) I've ever had was 92. My personal records (PRs) are as follows: 10k: 34:48, 5k: 16:46, 3200m: 10:19, 1600m: 4:56, 800m: 2:17, and 400m: 59. I joined a running club recently called the Augusta Striders, on June 9, 2007 at the Bare Bones 5k. It's pretty cool. I've done a couple group runs with them. I want to start becoming a more active member of the group in the future. To check out their site just click here: AugustaStriders. If you're into running you should join. My old high school is pretty good at track and cross country(XC). We finished 4th in the 2005 Georgia State AAA Cross Country Meet, which is the best a Richmond County school has ever done. This year I'll be attending Paine College. I'll be running track and cross country there too, and I'm the only white guy there too. There I'll be running the 5k and 8k for cross country and the 5000 and 10000 for track. I going to continue running after high school and college. I want to be that 80 year old man running marathons when it looks like he should drop dead any second. I was a fat little kid back in the day despite how much I run today. Ok I started off skinny but in about 3rd grade or so I started getting fat. I kept getting bigger until it got to be about 5th grade. I did something wrong in P.E. and the coach told me to do 10 pushups. An easy task for most kids, but at that point I couldn't even manage to do one. Even on the little P.E. runs we'd do every now and then I'd come in close to last. The only person I beat was this fat kid with asthma. I decided something needed to happen. I pretty much starved myself and worked out hard for about a year. I came back in 6th grade a lot skinnier, but still way out of shape. By 8th grade I started actually seeing results, and that I was actually in better shape than the average person. This led me to doing Raider Team, track and cross country in high school. But more importantly to a better lifestyle. Note: I never recommend starving yourself to lose weight unless you are very VERY fat. I guess I'm a pretty good person. I don't talk much and I'm not really shy I just don't talk much. I am a Christian. I believe in God, I read The Bible and I try my best to be a good person. I go to Hephzibah Baptist church, and here's a link to their website: HephzibahBaptist, but I sometimes go to Miracle Baptist since its close to my house and I have family that goes there. Don't worry though I won't try to push my religion on you or anything. I care more about being a good person in general than being a Christian, even though I am one. I try to be friends with everyone, and I don't discriminate against people. I don't cuss and I haven't for a while now. If you ever hear me cuss you have permission to slap me in the face as hard as you can.(Crap, freaking and hell aren't cuss words). But flicking people off is ok, but I usually only do it when I'm playing around. I don't like accepting stuff from other people and don't like people going out of their way for me. I really don't care what people think about me. I know people say that all the time and usually the people that say that are the people that care the most, but I honestly don't. I work at the Tilt Arcade in the Augusta Mall. It's the most awesome job ever. I pretty much run the place when the manager and assistant manager aren't there so that's pretty cool. I also like the fact that my first job isn't something stupid like working in a grocery store or a fast food place. I want to stress something to everybody though, I CAN"T GIVE OUT FREE GAMES. Well can't may not be the right word, more along the lines of "won't". The last two guys before me got fired because they gave their friends free games. I don't care what the last guy did, or the fact that I may not get in trouble. I'm still not risking my job to give someone free games. Here's a little more information about the arcade it self. It has several different types of games including first person shooters, fighting, driving, crane and more hands on type games. These games include Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Marvel vs. Capcom, Marvel Superheroes vs. Street Fighter, Tekken 5, Tekken 4, Capcom vs. SNK 2, SNK vs. Capcom Chaos, DDR Extreme, Pump it Up: Perfect Collection, Time Crisis 3, Time Crisis 2, Nascar Pinball, two Ski Ball Machines, Rage-in-the-Cage, two Carn Evil games, Solar Spin, Ninja Assault, Silent Scope, War: Final Assault, Magical Drop 2, Police Trainer, Gauntlet Dark Legacy, Sega Super GT Racing, Sega Rally Championship 1995, Lighthouse, Watch Crane, and Big Choice. We also have two change machines, and a redemption counter so you can turn your tickets in for prizes. Music has a very big impact on my life. I listen to it every single day, on my mp3 player, while I run. It helps to keep the level of boredom down since it is almost impossible to find someone to run with in this lazy town. I listen to every kind of music you can think of. Rock, rap, R&B, pop, country, techno, Christian, contemporary or pretty much anything else you can think of. Rock is easily my favorite genre though. My top 10 favorite bands/artists are: 1.Linkin Park, 2.Disturbed, 3.System of a Down, 4.Three Days Grace, 5.Bowling for Soup, 6. FM Static, 7.Skillet, 8. P.O.D., 9.. Like I said, though, I like all kinds of music, and I can get into pretty much anything. Except Prince, he sucks. I have created a system for measuring how good or evil someone is. The system itself has no definite name but it does have one unit. That unit is called the Hell Point. The more Hell Points you get the closer you are to becoming entirely evil. A this point when you die you will burn in Hell. Only two people can give out Hell Points. Those two people are myself, because I am a saint, and Andrew Wilsey, because he is the actual Devil. But anyone can receive Hell Points. There are certain degrees to Hell Points which I will now discuss. 5th Degree: Someone says something very mean that doesn't really cause anything to happen, such as saying "I wish Mrs. Strickland would just die". Cussing and small lies also fall under this degree. 4th degree: Saying something that causes something to happen or influences another person's thoughts or actions. An example of this would be telling these two girls in a lunch line that some other guy hates Jesus, when in fact he doesn't. 3rd Degree: Doing something that is pretty minor, but still evil, for example placing a used Sonic's cup in a trashcan at Wal-Mart that is meant for display, not for use. 2nd degree: Doing something very bad that causes some sort of real damage. An example of this would be getting your friend a zero on a major report because you copied it nearly word for word, and in turn causes your friend to get the only grade lower than a B on his report card for that entire year. Some more examples of this include hurting others (to some severity), stealing, and other such immoral acts. 1st degree: There are not many people that will reach this level of evil. At this degree you have to perform some of the most wicked, diabolical acts known to man. An example of this would be killing someone, paralyzing someone, raping someone, burning someone's house to the ground, or in fact committing suicide. Let's hope the 1st Degree Hell point will never be used. If there is any speculation to which level of Hell point a person should receive, you must reach either myself or Andrew Wilsey. If however the argument is between myself and Andrew Wilsey, a third party must then be involved. I hope that after reading this you now have the knowledge to distinguish between Hell Points. I also hope that knowing this will help you control your urge to commit Hell points, and that it will also influence others to do the same. Also Andrew Wilsey will burn in Hell. I love basketball. I watch it every chance I get and it's probably my favorite sport to play, next to running of course. I'm not real good or anything it's just something I like to do but when you're a 5'10" white guy that has an alright shot but no dribbles it's kind of hard to get too good anyway. I try to play like Rip Hamilton in that I move without the ball a lot because 99% of the time I have more endurance that the person guarding me. I can't dribble that well but if I have a team mate that understands how I play I can do pretty good. They're are plenty of people out there that can beat me, but I guarantee half of them can't beat me at horse. In fact I'd put money on the line that no one reading this can. And I mean a real game of horse with real shots, not some of that behind the back, through the legs kind of junk. I try to root for my home state team, the Hawks, but it's kind of hard to when you look at their record for the past few years. I would also say that I'm a very competitive person. I don't care if it's the state track meet, a PE basketball game or a game of freaking tic-tac-toe, I want to win and I'm going to try my hardest to do that. I don't believe in the sayings, "It's just a game", or "Play for fun." because winning is the most important thing to me. I try not to get mad when I lose at anything though. I used to have a problem with that. I've broken my share of Nintendo and Playstation controllers when I was younger. I'm going to be in a movie entitled "The Million Dollar Runner", which was written by Craig Burton and Kelcey Williams. It's about this poor kid that is trying to run his way into college by getting a scholarship. That's pretty much my life so the acting isn't that hard. This movie is on a hold right now, but we hope to someday get things going again. I'm not very laid back at all and I'm always thinking about something. I'm a health freak and I pay a lot of attention to what I eat and do. I even write down everything I eat, how much I run, weight lifting and other stuff on a daily basis. I've been keeping a log of that since 2004. I'm one of those people you see looking on labels for nutrition facts and measuring stuff in cups to see how many calories I get out of it. I've been doing 100 push-ups every day for over 2 years now and plan on continuing that. I also lift weights like 5 days a week. To go a bit more in depth about the whole lifting weight thing. Yeah I lift weights. Many people won't notice it since I don't have all that much muscle because you start burning muscle after about 30 minutes of cardio, and I do anywhere from an hour to two hours worth of cardio (running) on a daily basis so it's hard to put on muscle. But getting stronger is a different story. I love the feeling of pushing my limits to see how much I can lift just as I do in running. I usually end up lifting about 4-5 days a weeks, and I usually only do upper body stuff. This may seem strange to most people seeing as how I'm a runner and most people would assume I'd need to lift with my legs more so I'd run fast, but that's not really the case. Long distance running doesn't have "that" much to do with extreme leg power or explosiveness, so I usually leave most of that stuff to the jumpers and sprinters on the track team. I might do the occasional leg lifting but only for endurance with high reps and relatively low weight. I'm too scared I'll pull a muscle or rip my knee out of place to be doing anything below ten reps. But anyway yeah I know I'll never be the strongest guy on earth but I'd at least like to be the strongest distance runner at the starting line. From high school when I asked runners around my size 130-150 lb. how much they benched it's usually in the 135-155 area which kind of sucks. I was a 140 lb. guy benching 215 pounds in high school so I was usually stronger than other distance runners at the starting line. But before someone jumps all over me about how bench pressing doesn't show accurately how strong or weak a person is, I know that ok! It's just most inexperienced people always talk about how much someone benches (which is often a lie), so it's the easiest thing for the average guy to relate to. I plan on lifting after high school and hopefully hitting the big numbers later on in life. I'm a very organized person but I'm not like some kind of clean freak or anything because I can get messy. I don't like procrastinating and when I say I'm going to do something that means I'm going to do it. I don't like liars and I don't like being lied to, especially when its about something that I know a lot about, like running. A very tragic event happened on September 29, 2006. On that day one of my best friends, Daniel Nguyen, was killed a car accident. Daniel was the nicest guy you'd ever meet, and was easily the most generous person I've ever known. He would always help pay for people when we went out to eat or to the movies, if they didn't have money. He'd always invite us over to his place to play video games and watch movies. He was always going out of his way to help his friends, when they needed it. I hate the fact that him, out of all people, had to die. There will always be a special place in my heart, in all of our hearts for the nicest guy you'll ever meet, Daniel: The Amazing Asian. I'm an environmentalist, or I guess you could call me a tree hugger. I don't like seeing people hurt animals or hurting the environment in any shape, form or fashion. Like littering for example. All that is doing is hurting our planet, and people are making this matter worse everyday. You'll never see me litter, and if I can reasonably prevent it I'll stop others from littering as well. Animal fighting is also another side of this. Not hurting our planet the way littering is, but it is still inhumane. Mike Vick is the biggest idiot alive. He gets millions to play football, but decides to make a thousand or so dollars in a dog fight, and then gets caught. He deserves to stay in prison or at least some kind of psyche ward. I know all of this may sound stupid or I may a sound like Smokey the bear a bit. Just remember this: Don't litter, and don't hurt animals. Oh and don't do drugs, they're bad for you..... When I get older I want to be a doctor of some sort. To be honest at this point I don't know "exactly" what kind of doctor I want to be. I'm sort of leaning to something along the lines of a sports doctor or a physical therapist. That way I can not only help people when they get injured or need advice about their health, but I can also use it to help myself. I've been getting injured more and more lately from running, and I just want to be able to help people just the way my doctor (who is also a runner), helped me. $100,000 plus a year also isn't a bad motivation. To pursue this I hope to go to college for four years, and after that have high enough grades to get into the Medical College of Georgia (MCG). I most likely have the worst sense of direction out of anyone you know. I've lived in the same general area for my entire life, and I still don't know "all" of the roads good enough to get around fully. I've even got lost before on what would of been a 14 mile run. Not easy but also not insane for my current level of fitness. I took a wrong turn somewhere and ended up not even being able to finish my run, which was supposed to basically be a big loop back to my house. I ended up barely making it to my friend, Stephen and John's, house. I pretty much passed out on their couch after that exhausting "14" mile run that actually transformed into an 18 miler due to my very poor sense of direction. I also want to take note that that wrong turn is the dumbest thing I have ever done, in my entire life. I would never in a million years ever consider smoking. In my eyes smoking is one of the stupidest things you could ever do. Me being a runner, smoking would greatly interfere with what I do. I can guarantee I wouldn't be as good of a runner as I am now if I ever started smoking. My parents also smoked, so I know first hand what it can do. I hated it when my clothes smelled like smoke, so i never want to deal with that kind of stuff again. Based on the same ideas I would also never drink alcohol or do drugs of any type. I never want to know what it feels like to be drunk. People act ridiculous when they're drunk, and they often end up hurting themselves in the process. That's not me. It might sound kind of childish or whatever but drug free is the way to be. Scruff McGruff is a great great man. Growing up my parents never made me or my brother clean all that much. The always did most of the work around the house so I never really had to clean. Now that I'm older though, I find that I have a lot more cleaning to do than I used to. Whether it be at work or at my house one thing is for sure, I hate cleaning with everything I am. I guess you could call me lazy, I don't care, but I do clean when needed. It's kind of strange that at the same time I hate things being messy. It's kind of a lose, lose situation for me. In the future, though, when i get tons and tons of money I will hire my brother, Logan, as my personal slave. I mean butler..., no wait slave works fine for me. I will name him either Pierre or Chives and he will do all the work around the house. He'll get paid with a small shed outside, small pieces of daily bread and cold running water. I think very differently than the average person. I guess I'm a pretty philosophical guy, meaning I think too much about pretty much everything. I can get stressed out kind of easy because almost everything I go through hits me twice as hard as someone else because I'll think about it until it drives me crazy. This sounds like a bad thing which it often is but it helps in many situations. Like for example in school if I actually apply myself I can do great, but on the other hand I was very lazy during high school. I often look at things from different angles too. There are so many different view points nowadays on a subject that I find it very difficult to trust what anyone says or what I read or hear. I try to use my life's experiences and my own basic understanding of the world to interpret what I believe to be right. That's not saying that I won't listen to an expert however. I know I'm far, very very far from being the smartest or most knowledgeable person on earth, and you need those experts to point you in the right direction a majority of the time. Sometimes its just hard to actually trust the "knowledge", if you wish to call it that, of mankind since one person will say one thing then someone else will say something completely different. A lot of people think money can't buy happiness. That may be true, but it can buy stuff and I love stuff. Money isn't the most important thing in life. i enjoy the simpler things in life like friends, family and being able to go on a long run on a cool quiet morning. Wouldn't all of that be better though if you had a huge mansion, private jet and enough iPods to give to all of your friends? I think so. So in my book I may not need money to be happy, but I sure as heck want it. I don't trust medicine. I will never take medicine unless it's in a life or death situation for surgery or something along those lines. For the common cold, headaches, sinuses or pretty much anything I will choose to not use medicine. I believe medicine was created by the devil to make our bodies weaker, and more susceptible to disease and infection. Ok maybe saying the devil is going a bit to far, but mankind and one company in particular has made medicine an almost essential item for the average person. Medicine in my eyes treats the symptoms of a disorder and in turn makes it so our own body can't fight it on it's own. This causes the disease to stay while the symptoms will be temporarily hidden by the medicine. The purpose of this is to make it so we have to buy more medicine making the corporations distributing the medicine rich. It's all about the money in the end. Anyway people tell me I'm crazy all the time when they learn my viewpoint on medicine, but somewhere down the line my theory about medicine will be proven fact. Then everyone will be saying "Man I wish I would have listened to Clay." You always have people ask you, what's your favorite animal. I don't really have one though. If I'd have to say something I'd pick an animal that is linked closely to what I like doing, running for example. I'd pick the cheetah because it's one of the fastest animals on earth, but in a way it's also a sprinter because it gives out kind of easily. I'm not a sprinter so that couldn't really be me. One of the best endurance animals out there is the antelope. I don't want to go around saying my favorite animal is an antelope though, because that just seems really lame. So I don't really have a favorite animal, but I guess I'd say a cheetah even though it's kind of my opposite but not as lame as an antelope. This might sound kind of strange but I love hot weather, and despise cold weather. At the same time though I love artificial cold. I love setting the air conditioner on almost freezing. I love taking cold showers. I use freezer packs almost every day now. I don't like actual, cold weather though because that means it's always cold, and you can't really enjoy the things I mentioned earlier like air conditioner. My first two or three years of running I never suffered from even one major injury. My freshman through junior years of high school were nearly injury free. But towards the end on my junior year I suffered two major injuries back to back. the first was a sever ankle sprain because of me wrestling this big guy names Holmes and getting slammed very awkwardly. I told all the coaches at school I did it moving boxes though so I wouldn’t get chewed out. This injury ruined my track season. I was easily on my way to breaking 10 minutes in the 2 mile with a 10:19 at a county meet, with over a month to prepare for state. That ankle sprain took me out for two weeks though, and I never really got to peak properly. I ended up running a 10:20 at state, with my ankle still in pretty tender condition. The next major injury I suffered came about two weeks later when summer started. i wanted to get the base training portion on my training underway so I could get better for my senior year. the first week of summer I did an 80 mile week, coming off a play around 15 mile week for the last week of school. I did the 80 mile week, but on that Tuesday of the following week i tore the tendon on the bottom of my foot in a condition called plantar fasciitis. I couldn't even walk on my foot must less run for a very long time. It was nearly two months later when i actually was able to proceed with my training. I only had about two weeks left before my senior year of cross country started, but I didn't get even close to getting back in shape. My senior year of cross country was terrible, and track season was a complete flop. Now I've graduated and get injured more often than I can count. I've had everything ankle sprains, plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendinitis, shin splints, bruised bones, runner's knee. I take the necessary precautions when I run like warm-up good before hand, stretch and refuel afterward, ice regularly, and even take rest days when needed. I don't honestly think I'll ever get back into the shape I was in my junior year, especially when sidelined with injuries all the time. Even while getting injured as often as I do, I am fully aware of all the steps that need to be taken to avoid injuries. This stuff is helpful to me, but any other runners out there should also use this to their advantage as well. Before every run you must PROPERLY warm up for at least 5 to 10 minutes. This warm-up should include some dynamic stretching and warm-up drills. As soon as you get back from your run you should then lightly refuel with both solids and liquids. For example a cup of Gatorade and a granola bar. After that you should take a nice long shower to cool down. You don't want to cool down too fast though because that can lead to light headiness. After you get cooled down a bit, run the cold water over your legs. This is just a small step to reduce the inflammation built up in your legs. After getting out of the shower you should get into a detailed stretching routine consisting of upper body, lower body and core stretches. This routine should last anywhere from 15-30 minutes depending upon the level of prior activity. The purpose of this is to flush out a large portion of the lactic acid which gets built up in your body during strenuous exercise. It will also help you become more flexible, which is useful in almost any sport. Now after stretching you should properly refuel with a large meal consisting of lots of carbohydrates, protein and electrolytes. After finishing your meal you may want to go even further into the steps to preventing injury by icing your legs and feet for about 30 minutes or so. I usually get a small cooler and fill it with ice and water so it is very very cold. I then soak each foot in there for about 15 minutes each. This helps to even further reduce the inflammation that is built up, and helps to soothe any pain or soreness. Do not ice for too long though. Your body will try to fend off the cold after a certain amount of time. This will make the inflammation even worse. The average cut off time for icing is around the 20 minute mark for most people, while some may be able to last longer I believe 20 minutes is more than enough time. I only ice each foot for about 15 minutes myself. You can also ice other parts of your body with a gel freeze pack, bag of ice or a regular bag of green peas. To help pass the time by I usually either watch TV or get online to check my myspace. I also use this little roller thing to roll on the bottom of my foot. this helps to ease the pain in the plantar fascia and to make those tendons more flexible. To prevent injuries ahead of time you should also do strengthening exercises with weights so the muscles will become stronger and less prone to injury. While running make sure to maintain a decent form so that you're not over exerting certain parts on your body like your feet or your back. If at all possible try to run on softer surfaces like grass or trails, and be sure to avoid concrete at all times. I know all of this may seem a bit unnecessary but if I knew of all this back when I was in high school I may have peaked better or maybe even had a state title under my belt. I've pretty much given up on love. I haven't been in that many relationships, only two in all, but I've pretty much figured out that I don't think it's ever going to happen. I hope I find the right girl out there for me but honestly I'm not expecting it to happen. Here's a list of all the awards (medals, trophies, ribbons plagues, etc.) that I have gotten for my accomplishments in track, cross country, raider team, road races and other various athletic activities. I'm not putting this up to show off or anything like that., because for one it's not that impressive. I just keep really good records of the things I do, and would like to show the very few people that might actually care. I, as a runner, would love to be able to look at another runner's accomplishments to see where we match up. Anyway here it is, and please take note that I was much faster when I was 16-17 than I am now. Raider team (2003): 5th place JV PT medal Athens Meet, 4th place Varsity PT medal State. Cross Country (2004): Diamond Lakes County Championships 10th place medal, Statesboro Invite 1st place JV medal, 3-AAA Region Champs 1st place team medal. Track (2005): County Championships 3200 2nd place medal, 3-AAA Region 3200 2nd place ribbon. Cross Country (2005): Patriot Invite 8th place medal, Statesboro Invite 2nd place medal, Columbia County Invite 6th place medal, Columbia County Invite 2nd place team medal, 3-AAA Region 2nd place medal, 3-AAA Region Champs 1st place team medal, State Meet Overall 4th place team medal, Co-MVP Hephzibah High School plaque. Track (2006): County Championship 3200 1st place medal, County Championship 1600 2nd place medal, 3-AAA Region 1600 First Place Medal, State 3200 meter 7th place medal. Cross Country (2006): Patriot Invite (Aubrae Gunderson) 18th place medal, Ray Miller (Jenkins County) Invite 4th place medal, Columbia County Invite 7th place medal, Columbia County Invite 2nd place Overall Team Medal, Statesboro Invite 6th place medal. Track (2007): County Championships 3200 1st Place Medal, County Championships 1600 2nd Place Medal. Road Races: 1st Place Trophy Gasping Gobbler 5k 2005, 1st Place Trophy Thomson Depot Dash 2005, 1st Place Trophy Warrenton Hare Fare/First Saturday 5k 2005, 1st Place Plaque December Dash 10k 2006, 1st Place Overall Team Trophy (Klofenstine's Monster) 2007, 2nd Place Age Group Medal Broad Street Ramble 2 Mile 2007, 3rd Place Age Group Ribbon Jaguar Jaunt 2007. Me, Craig Burton, Darryl Watson, Gary ?, Craig Burton and Coach (Sean) Cauley ran in a road race called the Spring Challenge on Fort Gordon. Our team name was Klofenstine's Monster, after Coach Klofenstine(K) who coached all of use at one point in time. We ended up winning the race as a team. I came in fourth individually. We "plan" on running this race next year as a team again, but whether or not they do i still plan on getting a team together every year to run. No one can beat me at eating. Eating is one of my favorite things to do. Coming second only to running. I can be a picky eater though. But get a food I like, and I'll eat it all day. My CiCi's record is 19 slices (including crust). I love the feeling of being completely full. Full to the point that if you ate another bite you'd probably throw up or pass out. That's one of the best feelings in the world. I've only achieved this a few times my entire life. I want to get enough money so I can become supremely full on a daily basis. I'll never get fat though, because I run to much. But I still have a little stomach, but with as many miles as I run and as much as I work out, I worked just as hard to get that stomach as I did to get all my running medals. And that's pretty hard. I want to grow up to be like Takeru Kobayashi (That Japanese guy who ate all those hot dogs). He's a living legend in my book. Like I said earlier pizza is my favorite food, but not only that pizza is the greatest thing God ever put upon this planet. It's the best tasting food by far, and there are millions of combinations to choose from. My personal favorite is pepperoni, nothing special I know, but still my favorite. I will eat it, though, with pretty much any kind of meat or cheese. the only thing I'm picky about is the vegetables. Vegetables suck on pretty much everything, even pizza. My personal favorite frozen pizza is Tombstone, and for delivery it's Dominoes. I always get the 5-5-5 deal when I order pizza from there. CiCi's is awesome too. My record of 19 slices, which I stated earlier, will never be beaten by Andrew Wilsey. he is a fool that thinks he can eat more than me, yet I beat him every chance I get. But anyway let's get back to the pizza. I could eat pizza everyday if I had too, and throughout middle and high school I did just that. There were very few things I'd choose over pizza, even though the school's pizza sucked compared to others I've had. Even at home I end up eating pizza about four nights out of the week. Pizza is the king of all foods. I have a cat named Chewbacca. She is the most disgusting thing God ever put on this planet. She's the most worthless thing you could ever imagine, and she never lifts a finger to help around the house. She's even done something I didn't think was even possible. She is actually dumber than my brother, Logan. She'll never have kids because she looks like a boy instead of a girl. She's ungrateful for everything. She won't even eat human food that we eat, and only eats certain types of cat food. She has this annoying meow that makes you cringe whenever you hear it. I haven't even gotten to the smell. she smells of death and decay, and looks even worse. She has a myspace too if you want to check it out. She's on my top friends or possibly just my friends list in case I get mad at her. Let's get more into where my cat, Chewbacca actually came from. She has descended from a long line of cats that we had at our old house for about a decade. It started with these two wandering gray cats that left one of their kittens near our home. This cat would grow up to become the biggest cat whore on the face of the planet. We called her Momma Cat, or Mother. Twice a year this cat would get pregnant and have more babies. Many of the kittens died when they were kittens, and some ran away once they got older. None of them really stayed for as long as Momma Cat though. We've even had Momma Cat's kittens have kittens before so we've had a lot of cats. At one point we had at least ten cats. It would be impossible to list all of the cats we've had through Mother but I can guarantee it's easily over 100. Now you know why she is the whore of all cats. I stopped drinking sodas on April 15, 2004, you can blame Colonel Long for that, and plan on never drinking one again. I used be on Raider team and be in JROTC too. On Raider Team I was real good on PT and stuff. My bests are Push-ups in 2 minutes: 95 / Sit-ups in 2 minutes: 98 and my 2 mile 10:19. I got off of Raider team mostly because they didn't run enough and I was tired off working my butt off but still losing at competitions because no one else on the team worked as hard as me. I got back in JROTC my senior year though. I've just recently realized that I'm pretty good at writing poetry. I write about real things though, not that weird kind of shady stuff that says one thing and means entirely something else. If you want to read any of my poems their in my blog. I also have them posted up on several other sites including poetrywithmeaning.com and testriffic.com. I like all sorts of criticism, good or bad. So feel free to comment any of my poems and tell me what you think. Oh and by the way Craig Burton is not even close to being as good as me at writing poetry, The myspace poetry competition proves that. Clay-9 Craig-2. I have the worst luck that you could possibly imagine. Nothing ever, ever works out the way I plan it to. If there's ever a 50-50 chance, I always get the worse of the two. When I was in the best shape of my life, on the path to possibly winning state I twist my ankle and I'm out for two weeks. I had a "full ride" to college but one of my scholarships didn't go through so I had to withdraw, and start at another school six months later. I love dreaming I think I dream a lot more than the average person, well I mean I retain a lot more than the average person anyway. Ever since I had that nightmare about White Face I've written down (well typed really) every dream I've had, and the date on which I woke up from it. It's hard sometimes to remember every detail but I try. I'm going to go into a little more detail about the White Face dream I mentioned earlier. The dream started like this: I woke up, and the roomed seemed unnaturally dark. I kind of laid there for a second, but then I turned to my side. I saw this sort of chubby faced guy, with medium length black hair and a dead white face standing right next to my bed. He leaned toward me and let out this horrific moan. I immediately jumped out of my bed in my dream and started running for the front door. When i had almost reached it I woke up to find that I was halfway down the hallway in real life. I had actually jumped out of my bed and started running down the hallway in real life as well as in my dream. My dad was asking me what was wrong. All I could say was "There's a white face......in my room.....I've seen him before" I didn't even understand what I was saying. This was the single most scariest dream I've ever had in my entire life. I know when it's being told it doesn't seem that scary, but if you could of just been there and experienced how real it felt you'd understand why i think it was so scary. That's why I started writing down all my dreams, in hopes of finding if there is a deeper meaning to my dreams. I don't really like playing video games that much anymore, even though I played them up until about the time I started high school. I mean I'll play one occasionally, or with some friends or something, but you'll never see me sitting there playing a video game for hours straight or anything like that. Some of my favorite games back in the day were: Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario Bros. (The 1st one), Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid, and Super Smash Bros. Melee. Now I kind of see them as a waste of time because I'm too busy with college, and work. I don't like water. I never really have. I don't like swimming, and will only do it if absolutely everyone else it, and its at a party or something. I can't swim very well either. I mean I can stay alive in the water but as for swimming good or fast I can't do it. I don't use my muscles effectively I guess. I guess that kind of counts me out as a tri-athlete no matter how good I am at running. The rain sucks too. So much stuff has to change because of it. If it's raining in a parking lot I always run to get to the store or where ever cover is, even if it makes me look dumb. But if there's one thing that makes me angrier than anything else it's getting splashed in the face. I'd rather be slapped to be perfectly honest. Pretty much the only way I like water is if I'm naked, and it's in the shower. I was 18 years old when I went bowling for the first time, so I had a bunch to catch up with since most people play at least some when they are younger. The first game I ever bowled I scored a 75. I usually roll it right down the center of the lane, and I'm really inconsistent but I can make some strikes. I'm trying to spin it some, but I'm not good at that yet either. The most strikes I've ever had in a game was 4, and my highest score so far is a 139. I usually bowl at Brunswick. I stretch a lot. Every day really. I mean it's not some kind of advanced pilates or yoga routine but it gets the job done. I usually stretch for about 5 minutes or so before I work out, just to warm up a little. Then for about 15-30 minutes afterward to flush all the lactic acid out. This makes it so I don't feel as sore and stiff. I'm not very flexible at all though, which is really strange seeing how much I stretch. Don't get me wrong I can touch my toes with ease but compared to other people I'm not that great. Even on the V-sit reach in high school, the best I ever got was 3.5 inches. I can guarantee though stretching helps a lot, and too many athletes overlook it when it could be doing them a lot of good. Pushups is another exercise I do a lot. Now I do 100 or more every day. When I say everyday, I mean everyday. I've been doing this for about 4 years now since I was in JROTC and on Raider Team in high school. For about 2 years there in the middle of high school, before I got really involved in track and cross country, I'd do a minimum of 300 everyday. This really helped my PT soar my sophomore year. However, doing a lot of pushups everyday will break down a lot of your muscle, making it harder to get stronger. it will help your endurance a lot though. My best PT score for pushups ended up being 95, with a 77 being a 100, so I always got bonus points. The most pushups I've ever done at one time is 120, which kind of needs some work. The most pushups I've ever done in one day is 1400. I'm going to keep doing them everyday until the day I die, which you'll never see by the way because I'll outlive you all. I've pretty much stayed in Richmond Country my entire life. I was born at Doctor's Hospital, in Augusta. I lived over there near Butler Stadium until I turned one. then we moved into the house that I will always see as my real home. It was in the Circle on Greystone Drive, right near the high school and middle school. I met some of my best friends living there, and had more fun there than I've ever had where I live now. Anyway when i turned 17 when ended up moving way out into the sticks down Hephzibah McBean road. I hated it out there because there was nothing to do, and you pretty much had to burn gas like crazy if you ever wanted to go anywhere. I don't like slowing people down with stuff, and I also don't like being slowed down. From that it's pretty safe to assume that the majority of the time I prefer to work alone. I've never really been the kind of person that relies on someone else to do something for them. In school if we ever had to get grouped together and break up work amongst ourselves, I made sure I could do everything myself. There are tons of things that I love working with people though such as running and lifting weights. it just depends on what's going on for the most part. More often than less though I'd prefer to work by myself. I remember when i used to see people play Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) I used to think it was the stupidest game ever with the gayest music I've ever heard. But now that I've played it a little I actually think it's pretty cool. At first I was hopeless. I could barely pass songs on the super easy levels. Now I can play standard pretty easily, still nothing to brag about but hey I'm getting there. The music itself isn't exactly my favorite kind of music, but I can tolerate it. There are a lot of good techno artists out there but most don't make it on MTV or anything like that. The game is awesome though. It's the only video game out there (excluding DDR knock offs) that you can actually get tired and sore from playing. It also tests your coordination especially when you get to the more advanced levels. I'm going to getting AAA's in no time, ok probably not but it's still more fun that sitting in front of the TV and working only your thumbs. I'm not really into reading that much anymore. When i was younger I read all the time. i used to love reading Goosebumps and Animorphs but now I never barely read unless it's for school or something. I do, however, try to read The Bible as much as I can since I wasn't really introduced to it when I was younger. Now that I've accepted God into my life I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do. Aside from books I read a lot of fitness magazines like Muscle and Fitness (really just a supplement magazine though), Runners World and Running Journal. They're pretty cool because they actually relate back to what I really love to do. The best book I've ever read in school was Dracula by Bram Stoker, and that was in my senior year. My favorite book ever, though, is The Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, it's an awesome book. I don't watch all that much TV. Mostly because I'm so busy with work, school and trying to stay in shape. I do watch it a lot more during basketball season, just to check out the NBA and catch some ESPN or Mike and Mike in the morning. I was a very big Angel/Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan back in the day. It sucks that show had to get canceled because there hasn't been much since then, except maybe Lost, that I actually look forward to watching. I can get into almost any kind of movie. I'm usually more interested in movies where the plot could never happen in real life. It's just hard for me to get involved in a movie that seems so normal, like it could actually happen. Unless it's a comedy. My favorite comedies have to be Adam Sandler movies. Scary movies are awesome to. The scariest movie ever made in my eyes has got to be The Exorcist. I couldn't sleep for almost a week after I watched that movie. The only kind of movies I don't really like is action movies where some regular guy does all this crazy stuff like jumping off buildings. Like Mission Impossible, Die Hard or James Bond (sorry Scott). But some people say I'm a hard movie critic. I don't think so though. A lot of the things I do even I think are strange or even to some extent, compulsive. In fact I've looked up a lot of information about the condition known as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD, and I have many of the conditions connected with this "disorder". In my mind though stuff like OCD, ADD, depression and things of that nature are just things you have to deal with yourselves. Once a person would be called fat, but now they're said to have the "Disease of Obesity". Some kids just can't sit still and have a hard time paying attention, hence being hyper, but today we call this "ADD". Even if a person is feeling down about something people want to shoot him up with shots and "anti-depressants" to make him feel better. OCD is no different. It's a common thing that happened to millions of people across our planet. It's not a disorder, and it definitely isn't something that needs any medical treatment, nor do any of these other "disorders" if that's what you like to call them. Anyway let's back to some of the strange thongs I tend to do that would lead many to believe I have some kind of disorder, when in reality I'm just kind of weird. For example I tend to do a lot of counting when I get bored, like the tiles on the ceiling or the number of steps I take. When I walk I try to step on the cracks of the sidewalks and road and stuff like that. Also if I see three objects close to each other I always try to step parallel to the first object, then in between the first and second object, then parallel to the second object, and so on until I'm past them. When I touch something I always have this strange desire to touch it with my other hand or foot as well, and then with both hands or feet at the same time. When I say something but leave out a little detail I always end up saying that detail under my breath because I feel like I'm lying if I don't, but really it wouldn't be lying either way. For example if my friend asks me how far I ran today, and I replied 10 miles even though it was actually 10.2 miles, I would then under my breath say really 10.2 miles. I always try to get to the number three as much as possible, especially if it gets to the point that I get to two. Ok that sounded kind of confusing even to myself so here's a little example. I use some Windex on a window and it really only needs two sprays but for some reason I feel the need to spray it once more so I can get to three. Going along with this same idea about numbers, I also hate the number four for some reason. So if I ever happen to do something that involves the number four I always try my best to get to 5 or higher. I'm also kind of weird about my grammar, even on instant messengers and stuff. If I write something like "i cant wait", before i send it I almost always give in to the urge to say it like this: "I can't wait." I don't think there's anything wrong with using bad grammar or internet talk or anything like that though. Ok after re-reading all of these things I think I'm pretty much crazy. I can't imagine what other people would think if even I think I'm psycho. I don't really care about the way I dress. I don't get into one type of clothing style like most people. I have some preppy stuff, some gangster stuff, but I mostly just dress comfortably. By comfortable I don't mean jeans, because to me jeans are very uncomfortable. I usually end up wearing gym shorts, a t-shirt and some running shoes everyday. the only place I really wear nice clothes to is church, and work if I have to. I hated not being able to wear gym shorts during high school. In college I get to though so it's ok. I also like dressing like that because I don't really have to change before I workout, except maybe for the shirt. Pretty much this is my typical outfit. Some basketball shorts, a T-shirt (sleeveless preferably), and my running shoes. If there's one thing I can't stand it's people who take the inside lane on a track when they know they have no right there. Like power walkers for example. I know most of you don't really understand why this is so important, but after running at tracks for so long, like I have, it really gets annoying. I hate having to go around them. They know that they should move themselves but NO, they have to get in my way, and ruin everything. You don't know how many times I've tripped up or missed hitting a goal time by like a second because of power walkers. Don't get me wrong though, I have respect for power walkers.....to a very small extent. Why walk though? It doesn't make sense. Some people will walk around that track for over an hour. Why not just run a shorter distance? It'd help in so many ways. You'd burn more calories, give your legs and lungs a harder workout and it'd take way less time. I believe you should only power walk if you're too out of shape to run. This subject is brought up a lot during all sorts of discussions and topics so I thought I'd address it a little in here. I believe that abortion is terrible, and just as bad as murdering someone. I know there are times when it is absolutely necessary though. Like if it would kill the mother during birth or if you somehow knew that the unborn baby was actually the spawn of Satan. But reasons like, we're not financially stable or I don't want my parents to find out, are the stupidest most idiotic reasons ever. If you don't want the child give it up for adoption, or here's a thought, raise YOUR child YOURself. No one should be given the right to take another person's life before they have even had the chance to live. The origin of Oooooooooooooooh, and what it means. Ooooooooooooooooooh was made famous by a GI Joe Parody. It starts with these three kids running down this hill covered in snow. One of them falls onto this frozen pond, and is flopping around asking for help. Out of nowhere this large mountain ranger looking guy comes down. He starts yelling and cussing at the kids, demanding the reason why they are on his lawn. He then notices the kid that had fallen on his ice. He demands the other two to get that kid off the ice, and insults them by calling them "little wankas". He instructs them to give him a stick to help him out, but just as the kids go to do so he shouts, Don't give him the stick! The kids are now lost for words and one asks him if he knows his dad. This is when it happens. The man out of no where shouts Ooooooooooooooooooh, and the story is over. You now know the true origin of Oooooooooooooooooooh. Now I'll go into what it means. Through careful and excessive observation of the short clip I believe I the true meaning of the word. Like many many words it can be used in many ways. For example, "I can't believe you just said that!", or "Oh my God!", or something along those lines. There is also a second way the word Ooooooooooooooooh can be used. If a person exclaims Oooooooooooooooooh for no apparent reason, and another responds with an Ooooooooooooooooh of their own, it shows that both of them understand the meaning of the word and that then they will now become friends. Please do not confuse Oooooooooooooooooooh, with the simple and commonly used oh. In some ways they may be similar but oh does not share the same intensity or link creating ability as Ooooooooooooooh does, nor does oh need to be capitalized in the middle of a sentence. You can put as many O's as you'd like, and some people even write it with one O and many H's like this: Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, though you will never see me use it in that manner. Ooooooooooooooooooh. Ooooooooooooooooh is a very powerful word that is not to be used by people who do not understand it's greatness. With that said, I only have one thing left to say, Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh. I come from a very big family with 10 aunts and uncles on my dad's side and 8 on my mom's side. So that means I have easily over 100 cousins. You'd think I'd know some of them right? Nope, I don't really talk to but like 5 or so people outside of my immediate family. The only time I really get to se them is once or twice a year when we all meet up for a big family reunion, usually for Christmas or Thanksgiving. I see all these people that I don't really recognize but have to act like i know them so I don't seem rude. These things are a real drag to be honest. They last almost all day, and besides my brother the only other person I really talk to is my cousin Matt, who's like 8 years younger than me. Everyone there seems either like a redneck hick or a computer nerd so me and my brother never seem to fit in with the guys our age. Overall I guess I like my family alright even though I don't really know them that well. I just wish i could get more money from them. I was a terrible driver when I first started out. My parents barely taught me how to drive at all. I learned more from my friends who at the same time were learning too. Once when my dad was um preoccupied me, my brother, and my two friends Stephen and John took the car to go to a "friend's house", but we actually went to Wal-Mart. I've never even driven on anything bigger than a two-lane road at this point. We almost crashed twice, but fortunately we did survive. I realized I was a really sucky driver though. I even failed my permit test the first time around. My parents are a lot to blame for all of this though. My older brother Steve even told me not to expect a lot of help, driving wise, from my dad. I did eventually learn on my own, but didn't get my license until I was 18. Now I can drive like Ricky Bobby, who is a great great man. "You're either first or you're last". I always have to know what time it is, so that's why I always wear my watch. It's not like some kind of stylish gold or silver watch or anything like that. It's usually a 8 dollar Wal-Mart athletic watch that I use when I run. I don't really care about it matching my clothes or anything like that. Without it though, I feel almost handicapped. I hate having to look around for a clock on the wall, and even more to have to ask somebody what time it is. I like to be the guy that people ask. I always time stuff a lot, a whole lot. Like how long does it take to get to work on a Tuesday morning opposed to a Friday afternoon, and of course I use it when I run. You never know when someone might challenge you to a 1 mile race out of nowhere, so I always have it with me. One of my main life goals is just about that, my life. I plan on living until I'm at least 120. To do this I know I have to keep active, and eat well which I already do. I just have to keep it up, and I enjoy doing what I do so that's not going to be a problem. It's going to suck though when I'm like 80 or 90 and every other week I see someone that I knew's funeral in the newspaper. I can't wait to see Andrew Wilsey's funeral in the paper though. That day will be the absolute best day of my life. We have a a 10 dollar bet going on about who's going to live longer. What a fool he is to agree to such a bet. While we're on the subject, if anyone else wants to take me up on that bet feel free to do so. Just send me a comment, message or contact me in real life. Remember though no one alive today not even itty bitty babies will outlive me, and I may attend your funeral but there's not a chance you'll be at mine. Growing up I never really believed in stuff like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy or things like that. When my mom told me after I lost my first tooth to put it under my pillow. I asked, why? She said that the Tooth Fairy would appear that night while I slept, and would replace the tooth with 1 dollar. After those words were spoken, even at 5 years old, I knew I was smarter than my mom and I lost faith in anything else she ever said. The same thing with Santa Claus and all those other imaginary characters made up to deceive us when we were children, and then break our hearts when we discover they aren't real. I never believed in any of them. Sometimes, however, I did say I did believe in them so I would still get presents on Christmas and stuff like that, even though I didn't get much for Christmas growing up. I'll never tell my kids that Santa Claus, and all that other stuff is real. In fact I'll tell them to go to school and tell all the kids in their kindergarten class the truth about everything, just to show the kids that their parents are a couple of liars. I've always been really scared of heights. it's not so much the "heights" that I'm scared of, it's more along the lines of falling and dying. So if it's secure like me looking out of of glass window 30 stories up, I'm fine. But if it's dangling off a huge tower with only a small rope keeping me from dying yeah that's not something I like doing. I wouldn't even get on that little bike at Fort Discovery when I was in elementary school on a field trip. I have overcome that fear several times though. I've gotten on the covered area of the middle school just by scaling the side of the building and I've repelled three times total in JROTC. It's not some kind of fear to the point that it's a phobia or something like that but I still don't like heights. I'm real big on remembering things that I've done and stuff like that. Also I'll be willing to try anything or do anything once. Like crawling under a pitch black sewer for about 100 meters across my road, repelling even though I'm scared of heights, running the 4x4 relay fro track even though I'm not a sprinter and eating a jalapeno pepper just to prove I could. There's a lot of stupid things I do just so I can say i did it. No other purpose besides that. I usually don't have a real passion for some things, while others need a lot of hard work and dedication to achieve. For example eating a yellow jacket is stupid and meaningless but I did so i could say I did it. Running a marathon on the other hand is something else I also want to do, so I can say I'm a marathon runner. But I also feel very strongly about running as most of you already know. Like I said, I'll try anything once even if it's something that I wouldn't regularly do. Even though I like sleeping and dreaming it is very hard for me to fall asleep most of the time. I'm not one of those people who can just prop themselves up in a chair and doze off. I never was able to lay my head down during school to take a nap either, even though I often wanted to. I have to have near perfect conditions for me to fall asleep reasonably. For example it needs to be quiet, kind of cold and no lights whatsoever. I even put something in front of the computer and phone in my room so I don't see the lights coming off of it. I also think a lot so if there's a lot on my mind it's usually impossible for me to fall asleep unless I am absolutely exhausted. Once I fall asleep though, good luck waking me up. I have the loudest alarm clock in my house that I end up sleeping through almost every time. It even wakes up people in other rooms of the house, and I'll still be lying there asleep right next to it. So basically I'm hard to get to sleep and just as hard to get up in the morning. I am a very rebellions person. I don't like being told what to do at all. That's one reason why I knew I could never make it in the military like most of my friends. I do understand though the times when people need to tell you what to do. Like a boss at work or a teacher at school. Some instances though I really have a problem with doing something for someone if they "tell" me to do it. It has always been a dream of mine to lead a rebellion against the government, school board and things of that nature. I'm pretty sure I'll never pursue that dream, but it will always be in the back on my mind. I never take off my shoes unless I absolutely have to, like when I sleep or take a shower. I just have this feeling of security and confidence when I have my shoes on because I know if there's one thing I'm good at, it's running. So if ever end up being a victim in a horror movie I'd just run away from some one like Michael Myers for example, and he'd never catch me. If it was someone like Chucky, though, I would just use my shoes to kick him in the face because he's nothing but a stupid doll. Anyway, back to the shoes. I also like them because you can't get hurt by little things that would damage just your feet. Like thumb tacks, glass or sharp acorns for example. I can't walk in flip flops either. I feel like some kind of robot because of the way I walk in them. If I actually walk normal I usually end up walking right out of them. I'd usually choose to wear running shoes over any other kind of shoe, and for the past few years that's all I've ever bought. I don't feel secure in a pair of casual shoes because I can't run as fast in them, nor do they feel as good. I pay very close attention to all of my past running shoes. I keep track of every mile I've ran in each pair (to a rough extent). The experts say you need a new pair of running shoes about every 500 miles, and I try my best to abide by those standards. Often though that is impossible. The last couple pairs of shoes I had got into the 800-1000 mile range, which is kind of dangerous. I even had one pair, my Riddells that I got from Coach K for cross country, that got up to an estimated 1300 miles. I always keep and even treasure my past running shoes because they bring back memories from certain races, and even phases of my life. Like for example my laces being tied up backwards because my first girlfriend wanted me to, and things of that nature. I think I'm psychic to a very small extent. It's like my gut instinct always tells me the right thing. I can't really explain it but there's one kind of gut feeling, like the kind when you're taking a test, and it tries to tell you the right answer. Then there's another one I have that feels much stronger, and happens very rarely. Once during my junior year of high school I stopped by my locker to get some books out like normal. I never ever locked my locker, but for some reason I had this feeling to lock it this time. I ignored it though and went to class. When I came back by my locker later that day I noticed that someone had stolen my mp3 player. if I would have listened to my gut that never would have happened. There are other instances that have happened throughout my life where this second gut feeling has come into play, but that was one of the more memorable ones. I'm sure this kind of thing happens to people all the time, and I'm probably just looking to far into it. Who really knows though? The Grimace has done some very terrible things throughout history, and has unbelievable strength and power. here is just a mere demonstration of what he is capable of. Grimace Atomic Bomb Incident (Aug. 6, 1945 at 8:16:02 a.m. Hiroshima time). While the Grimace was jumping from building to building in Hiroshima Japan he decided he wanted to go eat some babies. He landed on the Hiroshima Hospital and was trying to find a way in even though he could effortlessly break through the roof. All of a sudden there was a huge explosion. This explosion was the 1st atomic bomb ever used called "Little Boy". This bomb exploded nearly point blank in the Grimace's face. The Grimace was thrown nearly a mile away and while he was shaken and confused he was not severely harmed. This event shows just how powerful the Grimace is. This bomb struck Hiroshima with a force equivalent to 12,500 tons of TNT and it killed nearly 200,000 people (from the bomb itself and bomb related fatalities). This event is the best demonstration to this day of the Grimace's alleged immortality. If you want to read any more about the Grimace just go to my myspace group "Grimace Haters" or send me a comment or message for more information. There may be several fake groups where people are trying to take my cause and turn it into their own. My group has been going on for quite a few years now. Along with my job at Tilt I also have another job i do on the side. I am a lumberjack, or I mean "tree removal specialist". Ok well I'm not exactly one, but I help one out a lot. there's a whole lot more to being a lumberjack than just hitting a tree with an ax and yelling timber. There are all these saws, pulleys, ropes, cables and all sorts of other things that you never would have guessed. You'd think I'd be against this sort of thing since I'm like an environmentalist and all but half of the trees we cut down are in danger of falling down anyway. Either from it being really old, to weathering or from being struck by lightning. It's not like we cut down trees in some forest to clear way for industry or anything like that. The job itself is fairly easy but at the same time it is labor, and I hate labor. if I'm not working out, I don't want to sweat. It pays good though, so I'm alright with it. If you have a tree that you need cutting down just contact me, and I can get my boss to give you an estimate on how much it would cost to remove. I have a lot of respect for our nation's military and for all the soldiers that risk their lives day in and day out for our country. Like I said earlier I was in JROTC during high school for 4 years so I now a lot about what the military is about. Tons of my friends from high school have joined, and I always remember to pray for their safety especially since we're in a time of war. I never wanted to get into the military because I don't like being told what to do, plus I don't think it's really within me to kill another human being. At the same time though I understand that it's necessary for us to stand and protect out country. So for all the people going into the military from my class : Bigelow, Josh, Pablo, Devin, Kelcey and everyone else I wish you the best of luck out there. In case you haven't noticed by now I really like myspace. It's awesome how you can talk to all your friends, and keep in touch with those who moved away and such. The only thing I don't really like is that it makes you kind of "number" your friends, so to speak, with the whole top 8 (or top whatever) system. I don't like having to order my friends, in fact I don't think about it in that sense at all. However, because we are forced to have a top friends section I at least would like to come up with my own guidelines to make it seem more fair, and to show my friends that I'm not really putting them in any sort of order. First off my real best friends in real life will obviously come first on my top friends list. There are a lot of other factors I use to organize my top friends after my very best friends are put up first. Like, 1.How long I've known the person. 2.How often I still see or talk to the person in real life 3.How often I talk to them through myspace, or the internet in general. 4. Whether I'm on their top friends or not. 5.Or if they're family. I try to keep it simple when doing all of this, as you can see though it can get complicating. But like I said before I only do this to make it seem fair to everyone, but to be honest it's actually just because I was very very bored one day and had nothing better to do. My email address is clay6618@yahoo.com. My AIM screen name is clay6618 if anyone wants to chat or anything. I got that Myspace IM too so that works too. I use clay6618 (or in one case clay66181) for pretty much everything I make an account for so if you see that screen name on anything there's a big chance that it's me.

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