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Swine flu sucks. There’s no simpler way to put it. It took me a good week and a half to fully get over it, but I finally did on Wednesday.

I only ran once this week… on Friday. I’m still hurting from my strained groin muscle, but decided to head out anyways since the weather was so beautiful. This was definitely a run I won’t soon forget…

(Let me preface this next part by saying we got out of work at noon on Friday because President Obama was coming to speak at Rudder Auditorium and traffic would be a nightmare)

About 2, I decided to head out and take a different route because I’m getting tired of smelling all the food when I run down Texas Ave and University… Basically a big circle from George Bush/Texas Ave -> Southwest Parkway -> Wellborn -> George Bush/Texas Ave.

As I’m running down Wellborn, I noticed traffic is completely backed up and people are getting out of their cars to see what’s going on. I figured what everyone else must have thought as well – Obama’s here.

I get to the intersection of George Bush/Wellborn and the Police have blocked all traffic on George Bush and Wellborn Road. People are getting out of their vehicles, leaving them parked in the middle of the road and come out the side of the street in hopes that they’ll see Obama as he rides in his motorcade down George Bush.

President Obama’s Motorcade
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I end up waiting about 15 minutes, and we finally see Obama’s helicopters (about 4-5 of them) fly over on their way to Easterwood. Not long afterward, we see the College Station Motorcycle Police headed down George Bush from Easterwood, followed by what must have been 20-30 vehicles in the entire motorcade… I felt like I was in a movie.

Luckily, the way we were facing and the way the sun was shining through the darkly-tinted windows, we were all able to see President Obama in his black Suburban as he rode past. I know it’s not much, but it was pretty neat nonetheless.

It doesn’t really matter what your views of the President are, anytime you get to see a sitting President in person, it is really something special.

So about as quickly as they came, they were all gone and on campus for his speech at Rudder Auditorium.

I continued my run down George Bush back home passing people all along the way carrying signs protesting President Obama… most of which had Russian or German flags on them attempting to compare Obama to a Socialist, Communist, and many other “ists.”

I got home just in time to turn on the TV as he began speaking. I will give Obama credit… he is a very talented public speaker. Luckily, his visit was not political, but instead focused on public service, so I actually quite enjoyed it and enjoyed the fact that he was speaking on our Campus.

Fast forward to today… I’m unbelievably sore.

Last night I went over to a coworker’s house to watch the Aggie Football game. I’m sure most of y’all reading this know how that game turned out. So, needless to say, we found other things to do rather than watch the game.

Most of the evening was spent playing full-contact football in their backyard. I think I ran harder last night than I ever have… which is actually kind of sad because I was playing against children. It was still a blast, though.

All that said, my feet hurt, my legs hurt, my arm and hand both hurt from throwing the ball. But I love it.

I never rarely played sports growing up, and I sure didn’t play in High School. I think I’m going to try to get on a city-league team sometime soon… whether that be football, baseball, or whatever, I really enjoy being active.

That last statement is somewhat ironic, because as soon as I put the computer down, I’m planning on taking a nap

Thanks for reading!

Here’s the map of my run from the Friday for those who care…

It’s obviously been a while since I’ve updated my blog. So, instead of writing a novel about the past 2 weeks, I thought I’d break it down into good news and bad news… I’ll start with good.

Good News: I’m down to 213lbs!

Bad News: I lost 4 of those pounds because I was sick all last week with the swine flu.

Good News: I’m getting better, but not at 100% quite yet.

Bad News: I haven’t run since Sept. 29

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Good news: I went to Dallas last weekend (Oct. 2-4) to go to the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium for the Southwest Classic.

Bad News: A&M got embarrassed on national television yet again.

Bad News: I’m pretty sure Dallas is where I picked up the swine flu.

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Good News: I was well enough to go to the Aggie football game against Oklahoma State this past weekend.

Bad News: We lost.

Good News: We hung in there with the #13 team in the nation.

Bad News: I wasn’t well enough to do the Run to the Chicken that morning… postponing my debut into the 5k world.

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Bad News: I though I gave myself a hernia a couple of weeks ago while I was running.

Good News: I went to the Doctor on Friday and found out it’s only a strained groin muscle.

Bad News: It still hurts.

Good News: Doc said I should be able to run again (if I’m completely over the swine flu) later this week.

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That’s about all I got for the last two weeks, here’s some good news to end on:

Good News: New House and Lie to Me on TV tonight.

Good News: Laura’s cooking dinner

Good News: I plan on being asleep by 9:30.

Good News: The next time I post this week, I plan on having running updates to go with it.