Conditioning

Pages 103-122: I've just returned from my first successful 6:00am run with my coach, Finny. This all started the day after he came back to Devon. That morning Brinker told him we were going to enlist. This seemed to upset Finny. I felt he needed me and I changed my mind about enlisting. Then instead of going to our classes, Finny wanted to go to the gym. While we were in there, he amazed me by stating there really wasn't a war going on. It's a joke. He knows this while I don't because he's suffered. I know I caused his suffering. Then he challenged me to do 30 chin-ups. I never even did 10 but this time I completed the 30 he wanted done. Along with Finny's idea that the war was fake, I've also learned Finny had wanted to be in the 1944 Olympics. Since he can't be in them, he's training me for them instead. I'm tutoring him in return.

This morning was the first time I completed the running course four times without being winded. After I accomplished this, Finny seemed smaller to me, but maybe it was me who had grown bigger.