7th post

Run Like Fire Once More
The first thing that caught my attention was that this whole story was based around one single race. This race was extraordinary because it was 3,100 miles long and lasted for two months. Each person in this race had to run around the same block everyday but would switch direction they ran each day. I found this to be severely boring and very intense. A person who wanted to stay in the race had to run fifty miles a day from six in the morning to midnight. I personally find this to me very boring and repetitive. I would have no drive to encourage me to run this race since your not getting anything out of it because you are running the same block for 3,100 miles for two straight months. You see nothing new or exciting for two months. I also found that the man running in the race got an ingrown toe nail when he had 2,000 miles left in the race. Yes, 2,000 miles is a lot left in the race but yet he has already ran 1,100 and pretty much is half way finished with the race. This in particularly made me very aggravated and I felt bad for this man. An ingrown toe nails are very painful and annoying. If he ran another 2,000 miles with an ingrown toenail, that would be nothing but pain. I understand where he wants to finish the race because he has already made it this far. I found it very discouraging because he has already ran so much of the race and what is the point of running this far if you are not going to finish. I would honestly never find the courage or strength to even start a race that last even longer than ten miles. 3,100 miles seems really far fetch to me and ridiculous. If this story is true I have respect for people who have finished this 3,100 mile race in two months.

Candid Camera
This essay was one of the most boring essays to me. I was first confused because the author starts talking about different cars and which ones he prefers but then he gets into talking about cameras. I did not find anything of this to be interesting in the least. I like to take pictures and I found photography some what interesting but this particular story made me not want to read anymore about cameras. Cameras in the first place are something not a lot of people know a lot of about. It is a topic that most people are not going to find interesting because it is not among of the popular hobbies like cooking or sports. I even got more confused when he started to talk about different types of camera and about his photography in Germany. Then he went on to talk about a camera called Leica in depth and that just made the story so much worse for me. I almost found it to the point that he talked about the camera like it was a human. He made it sound like the Leica was the most important thing to him. I understand that the camera is one of the most important things in photography but the author wrote it more in an obsessive manor. He did not help me enjoy photography more but yet made me think it is more boring than I already did.