Buffalo Boy's Blog

Some catching up from a blog free weekend.....

Saturday was a whirlwind. I woke up at 5:30 to get to my final teaching certification exam at 7:00 AM to get a good parking spot. The teacher exams are at Southside Elementary School in Buffalo and if you are not there for the 7:45 registration time by 7:00, you usually have to walk about 3 miles to get to the school as the parking in the school lot is gone a good 45 minutes prior to the doors opening. In bone chilling cold, I was not about to have that happen.

After my test I had swim practice which was followed by a trip downtown to the ECC pool to see the A-10 Swimming and Diving Championships. The swimming was very fast and St. Bonaventure featured a mens 400 yard freestyle relay that split a 1:29 on the final 200 of the relay. For those of you who don't know swimming that is FAST! For those of you who do know swimming, like we were, your jaws are hitting floor. So, as far as this area goes thats about the best swimming that you are going to see come to this area. The Bonaventure men finished second overall for the meet.

Aftert that things got silly, the "C" word was mentioned and off to Niagara Falls we went after the meet. I did pretty well, I played with $50 for the night and had fun until we realized that it was.....3:37 AM when we thought about leaving......I strolled in at about 4:30 and suffice it to say Sunday didn't exist.

So, I missed the hockey game that we won but I saw that Miller was injured. Of all the guys on the team that had to get hurt why him? I saw the hit, its hockey, those things happen, though some response would have been nice. At the same time they did win and when you are up you don't want to chance it. I think had the score been a 4 or 5 goal lead or they had been down by two or three, the ensuing play might have involved a bit more of  physical response.

I recieved my Master's Diploma from Canisius over the weekend. I will be walking in May as well. A step up the ladder, I earned it so I want the chance to flaunt it.

The weight loss and workouts are coming along well. Today 2 people mentioned that I looked thinner. I got in the pool today as well. I did 1000 yards swimming that included 200 yards warm up, 4X25 yard kicks on 45 seconds, 4X25 yard swims on 45 seconds, 2x50s anything but freestyle, 2x50's freestyle, 100 IM kick and 100 IM swim and then a 200 cool down. I then did 20 minutes on the eliptical, actually 23 minutes I wanted to get to 2 miles on it today and then I did 35 minutes on the bike. It was a mini indoor triathalon.