Hey I am updating my site again.  It has only been 13 months.  The highpoint challenge is now probably history.  I just don't see climbing Denali (that's Mount McKinley, in Alaska, for those of you uninitiated).  Windchills of -100 degrees just don't sound like too much fun.

Mike Farmer is a wuss, he slept in this morning when he could have come to high school practice and watched us run 2400,2000,1600,1200,800,400 in 40 degree rainy weather.  What kind of person could turn down an opportunity like that. 

I have been reading a ton of stuff about evolution.  I can't believe how weak the theory actually is when you really get past the simple textbook explanations of stuff and see what the evidence really is.  I'm not saying that there is no evidence for evolution whatsoever, but almost any of it can be explained just as reasonably by creationism. 

Steven Saylor, if you are reading this, get yourself outside and do some running.  If we are going to win a state trophy this fall in cross-country, you are going to have to get in some awesome shape by then. 

I just don't know what to do about the Colorado trip.  The guys are going to go the week of July 17-23.  I don't know if I am going to be able to get a female chaperone to go, so I don't know if the girls are going to be able to go.  It is going to be a great trip, so I really want the girls to be able to go.  I just can't take them without a female sponsor. 

Track is going pretty good at Raytown South.  The sprinters are pretty good.  Holla at the boys 4x200m, they won the relay at CMSU.  They certainly did a lot better than the distance runners.  We don't really put a lot of emphasis on CMSU, or any other meet prior to KU relays for that matter.  In distance events, you can usually tell who is going to suck at the end of the season because they are the same ones who look awesome at CMSU.  I am going to have to make an exception for Brett Musser though.  He won the mile, but he is from St. Joe Central, and his coach is a freaking genius, so I know he isn't going to peak too early.  Their other guys ran just OK, so Brett must have just had an exceptionally good race.  Geoff Hughes thought he was going win the 2 mile I think.  I guess when you run a whole 400 miles in the winter you think that is going to just allow you to destroy an entire field of All-State distance runners.  Sorry, Geoff.  Believe it or not, some of those guys also ran this winter.

As long as I am kind of making fun of Geoff (not really Geoff, it is all in good fun), I have to tell the 800 horsepower story.  About 2 months ago, Geoff told the other distance runners that his Shelby something-or-other car that he and his dad are building will have 800 horsepower when it is complete.  DISCLAIMER:  I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT CARS.  I DON'T PRETEND TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT CARS.  I AM LUCKY IF I CAN REMEMBER HOW TO START MY OWN CAR.  However, I do know that 800 horsepower would be an absurd amount of power.  I do remember reading somewhere that an Indy car has about 1000 horsepower, so I have a little trouble swallowing the idea that this Shelbymobile is going to have 80% of the power of an Indy car.  I am looking for expert opinions as to whether it is possible for Geoff to build a car that has 800 horsepower.  I am not necessarily saying a street-legal car, but this is being built in his garage, so it's not going to have a jet engine in it or anything.  Let me know what you think. 

Oh, and one more thing.  I am probably the only person on earth who still supports Bud Lathrop.  I don't care if he uses a few choice words occasionally, he has been a role model for literally thousands of young men over the past 40+ years.  If you ever read this coach, please stay around until you get 1000 wins.  It would be fitting for you. 

                             Sean Nunn

Farmer is making me update my site.  He says I don't update it often enough.  Shows how much he knows.  I updated it only 1/2  a year ago.  When you are as old as I am, that is just like yesterday. 

My latest attempt at immortality is the high point challenge.  The record for the shortest period of time to reach the highest point in each of the 50 states is 67 days.  I think I can do it in 50.  The hardest part is climbing Denali.  It is 20000 feet elevation and it gets down to 100 below zero on the summit.  Cost for a guided tour is $4500, so I need to save a little money.  The other 49 states are a piece of cake. 

                               Mr. Nunn

The world according to Nunn:

1. When in doubt, run more.

2. The reason people are fat is because they eat too much and don't exercise enough.  If this applies to you, I'm sorry but dieting doesn't work, unless you exercise with it.  Sure you can lose a few pounds, but you won't keep it off, unless you want to eat like a rabbit your whole life.  The human body was not designed to lay on a couch all day.

3. Our 4x800m. relay was awesome at conference.  Farmer drops the Ruskin anchor with 350m. left, then holds off an All-State cross-country runner for the win.  Joel Guenther, Jermaine Gregory, Chris Ledin, Mike Farmer ran 8:20, the fastest time we have run since about 1996.  If you go to Liberty and you are laughing because you could still beat us by 200m, I am sorry.

4. I just looked up and saw smoke coming from the back of my classroom.  When I went back to investigate, a student who shall remain nameless (cough Myke Smith cough) had plugged in a hot comb and was getting ready to curl his 'fro out with it. 

5. I am still upset that my state record in the 50 mile run got broken last November.  But believe me, I plan on getting it back. 

6. I got 35 (out of about 10000) at the Trolley Run.  I can't believe I did that well. 

7. If you think that this is too long of an entry, realize that I won't get back on this Xanga for weeks.

8. I don't hate you Brian Koehler.  I just find you annoying.  But that is true of a lot of people.  If I started making a list I would never get done.

9. Aisha Mitchell is the coolest athlete ever.  She is so fast but so humble.  :55.1 on the end of our 4x400m. relay at the Truman co-ed relays. 

10. Props to the Kearney coach for having academic standards for his team. 

11. Jeers to people who think that good things should come to them without working.  I have a student who said she doesn't do schoolwork outside of school because she has a job (which she uses to buy stuff she doesn't need), a boyfriend, etc.  Then she complains about why she is doing so bad in class.  HELLO!!!! Wake up and smell the coffee. 

12. If anyone is reading this who is about to graduate, think really hard before you do something stupid.  People die every year around graduation time, because they do something dumb.  Don't let it be you.

13. God rules

            Peace out.

                                Nunn