The experience Part 2

Well at this point in my life, I was at the gym all of the time. I had really started to focus more on basketball, and was playing sometimes 4-5 hours a night. I was hitting the plyometrics harder then ever and had forgot all about running. I had pretty much decided that I didn't care about doing it anymore and just left it behind. I was working at Best Buy and decided that I would ride my bike to work every day, which I did for almost a year. I bought a Giant ATX-970 Norba Downhill Bike and proceeded to replace everything on it. I spent something like 2 grand on all new components and thought I would ride it alot. I would also ride to Palmer Park, ride home, and ride to work some times. This could be considered my replacement for running. Well at this point a fellow worker of mine challenged me to train for the Boulder Bolder. This was in January of 02. I was still in my I don't want to run mode and told him that I didn't run anymore. Well he kept asking about training and I finally gave in. I started running again in March of 02, and jumped right back into it, too fast I might add! I thought that going to Palmer Park every day and hammering out 8 miles was the way to go, and I was using an old pair of Nike Prestos which was another bad decision. I got Patella Tendinitis very quickly, and had it in the Boulder Bolder. We didn't know about qualifying times back then, and were put in the QQ and the ZZ waves. I ran I believe 48 minutes on their official time and think that I started out like 8 minutes after my wave got going. If anybody wonders why I never run the Boulder Bolder, its because of my experience with the 02 race. Now I know it would be completely different now, but I just have never felt motivated to go back. We kept training that whole summer and ran 20 or 30 races that year, so we were now becoming runners.
I would keep going about the progressions that I had from year to year, but that would just bore everybody. The short of it:
I ended up finally running for Western State back in 05-06, transferred to UCCS where I sat out for a full year because of the transfer, decided that I didn't like UCCS, switched schools again and have been at CSU Pueblo ever since. I have not completed in college running since 06, and will never get to use up my 3 years that I have left. I still train just as hard as I was back then and can be seen around at the races. I hope every has a good season. Have a good one.