Saturday was a fairly good day.

Started with a solid run. I ended up running with a group of runners that are super fast and included a former all SEC track star and professional runner and a couple of other former college cross country runners. And they ran fast. Very fast. We started out at a fairly pedestrian pace, but the pace quickened. At that point pride sorta kicks in and you force yourself (or at least I force myself) to stay with them. And I did. Surprisingly I felt pretty good. Almost like I was trying to prove to them I belonged up there.

Fortunately after running this pace for several miles my brain kicked in and I laid off. I ended up running the rest of the route by myself and still kept a pretty decent pace, just not the lightning fast pace that front group had. Got back to the Whites and visited with Mike for a little while but needed to leave early so I didn't stay long.

Considering I haven't run a lot in the last 6-8 weeks, I felt good about the run. Not a long run, but definitely had speed. It felt great to get out there and stretch my legs.

After running I got ready for the basketball game. All three boys said they wanted to go, but predictably front yard football took over and they decided to stay. I went alone and watched an absolute dismantling of St. Bonaventure 105-53. The Bonnies were leading the country in FG% coming into the game at over 55%. On this day they shot around 35%. This was the State team I expected to see this year. Good win.

The afternoon brought with it the SEC Championship game. I really thought Florida had enough to get the job done. Missing Dunlap turned out to be key. The defense was on the field way too long. Tebow never developed a rhythm. Hats off to Bama, they played really well. McElroy managed the game and Ingram showed why he is a Heisman contender. His performance likely at least earned him a trip to New York.

And the night had the Big 12 Championship game. Most people overlooked Nebraska, but Bo Pelini's defense was outstanding. If you like defense this game was outstanding. Both defenses rose to the challenge. It was a fun game to watch with a ton of hitting. The game also had the extra intrigue of if screwing the BCS up if Texas lost. There was still a chance that Florida would sneak back into the title game and play Bama in a rematch. Of course TCU and Cincinnati would also make strong arguments. As it turns out Texas won on a FG as time expired. Interestingly though, the officials had to review the last play and put 1 second back on the clock because time expired when Colt McCoy nonchalantly threw the ball out of bounds. They made the right call and there should've been 1 second, but here's the interesting part: I'm not sure that play is reviewable. I'm not sure the officials are allowed to review a play when the only thing they are looking at is time. Certainly if they reverse a play they can then look at the time to see what should be on the clock, but I don't think they can review and look ONLY at time. In any event, Texas won in unimpressive fashion.

As I said, yesterday was a fairly good day.