You would think that on day 299 I would be more hyped.  The fact is I felt super burnt out, sore, and not motivated to skate.  I was however, very happy to finally get to skate with John after weeks of conflicting schedules.  We met at Meta then rolled down into campus.  First stop was the angled curb parking lot.  Not as fun the 4th time.  We both tried the narrow ledge drop to ollie back up and failed.  The death factor was a little high for me that early on in the session.  Some more rolling around, a John kickflip slam and we ended up at the two stair in front of the crowded UMC.  There was a lot of stressed out students finishing up finals.  I don’t miss that part of college at all.  We tried to manual the two stair for awhile and both came close (John was way closer) before a group of students came out and smoked cigarettes on the stairs.  Smoking sucks.  We were supposed to ollie the four stair on the way out like it was nothing, but I failed.  Three times.  I was really feeling the motivation issues.  Ugh.  I finally got it and we hit the well lit area nearby for a game of SKATE.  The last time we played SKATE it lasted for about three hours.  This time, not so bad.  John got me with front shove (ugh), fakie flip (ugh ugh), treflip (ugh), nollie flip (ok with that one) and switch flip (considering I’ve only landed it once i don’t mind losing on that one).  Next up was the banked manny pad.  Or in our case, a bank.  John looked at it and all it’s cracks in disapproval, but after I layed down a couple Gillinghammers first try he accepted the spot for what it was.  I did front rock, front tail and a front tail backside revert.  Maybe even a manual to rock ‘n roll manual out with a few tilts.  John did front tail, almost a rad sal flip and then we both ollied and took off to the round stairs.  John ollied it huge first try and I layed into a long powerslide which turned my cheap wheels into rectangles.  Ugh.  John did some good back 180s off the 3, I did some bad ones off the two and that was it.  Day 299 done.  So hyped on not having to skate every day anymore.  Gonna take a day off before the big 300 so I’m more motivated and enjoy it more.

Jake and I spread some Null at Crisis before meeting Fuzz at the Broomfield park.  It was surprisingly more crowded than it’s been.  It wasn’t super warm or anything.  Jake slammed hard right away trying a rock fakie on the little vert qpipe in the back of the park and had to walk off a hipper.  I had settled for trying a line of boardslide the tiny rail, back 50 the black ledge, then front nosegrind the blue ledge.  Fuzz tried to and beat me to the punch by about an hour.  He’s gonna argue that he bonked on the nosegrind, but he made up for it by adding a front d on the brick qp after the 50.  Actually wait, I never did get the line.  I came close, but I had to avoid the nosegrind a lot due to the crowds.  It kinda bummed me out.  I really don’t like skating crowded spots at all, but I was hyped to back 50 the black ledge so many times as I think I had only done it once before.  Jake and Fuzz looked like they were having a good time.  I saw Jake ollie a min jersey barrier that someone brought.  Fuzz bluntslide the tall rusty ledge.  I really don’t remember what else I did until the very end when Jake and I played a game of SKATE that got cut short by the lights shutting off.  He was up SKA to SK.  Two more days til 300.