橋爪

State's best times:

100m Dash: 10.75 seconds
200m Dash: 21.51 seconds
4 x 100m Relay: 42.24 seconds
4 x 400m Relay: 3:21.28 minutes

So much faster than me, but hell, it's something to aim for. The other day I nabbed the sports section of The Oregonian (for the first time evar) and saw a picture of a St. Helens' runner on the front, baton in the air roaring triumphantly as he crossed the finish line of the 4 x 400m relay. In the background, a weary and defeated-looking Jesuit runner, mouth agape from exhaustion.

Inspiration.

Being Asian owns. I missed the entire school day to attend the "Asian-American Youth Leadership Conference" - basically, a bunch of Asian yahoos who could fork over the $15 to skip school and hang out with friends at Lewis & Clark college. It was kind of strange for me, as I was one of very few Japanese (soooooo many Koreans) and probably the only Wzn. The day was essentially worthless, as the "conference" included such valuable lessons as "what makes a good leader" (LOL FOCUS AN CONFIDENCE AN INTELLIGENCE) and a "culture class" which involved indentifying names of famous Asian-Americans (such as the indomitable William Hung). Still, got a good breakfast and lunch out of the deal, in addition to going to a mini college fair (Side note - did anyone else know that Reed has a nuclear reactor on campus? x_x) and learn a new term - LAs, or lower Asians. (As was explained to me - "both geographically and like, status.")

Ah, racism.

And finally, the track season has come to a close, as short as it may have seemed (to me, at least). I finally started actually getting something out of the meets and practices as the season ended, beginning to find my physical and mental limits - or at the very least, outside of my comfort zone. Times from today's meet (pictures of which to appear shortly on my MySpace):

100 m Dash: 12.90 seconds
200 m Dash: 26.62 seconds
4x100 m Relay: 49.39 seconds
4x400 m Relay: 4:05.24 minutes

I will destroy those next year. And that Goddamn freshman kid will not beat me again.

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