It has been a couple of weeks since running has felt like much fun. I am happy to say that it felt like fun tonight. I am determined to break this friggin' weight plateau if it kills me (and it just might). I headed to the Y and planned on hitting the treadmill. The elevated track just doesn't do it for me anymore and the air up there stinks. There are usually basketball or volleyball games going on and it just stinks.
Anyway....
I hit the treadmill and planned on doing 45 minutes. I put my Nike+ on basic and went for it. After a ten minute warm-up I started to get bored and knew that I needed to do something to keep my interest. I needed a game. Each minute I raised the speed by .1 mph. It doesn't sound like much, but I went from 5.3 mph to 6.0 mph and then back down minute by minute. After a recovery at 5.2 I turned it back up to 5.5 and increased the mill by .1 every 30 seconds until I hit 6.5. Once I hit 6.5 I decreased by .1 every 30 seconds until 5.5. After a short walking recovery I turned it back up to 5.5 to finish the last few minutes. It was actually fun because I had to pay attention to what I was doing. 30 seconds isn't too long and it let me change it up. I need to start playing with the incline, too, but I am afraid that I am going to encourage a flare up of plantar fasciitis. OUCH. I have finally accepted that I can't (and shouldn't) try to run every day. The plan at this point is to run one day, cross train and weights the next, and rest on the third day. We will see if it kick starts my metabolism again. Here's to hoping!
It was an interesting day at work. We were traveling around the county with a consultant who was leading focus groups of middle and high schoolers regarding a survey they took in October. Specifically he was asking questions about the way they answered. One question was "What kinds of things happen at school that make you believe the school doesn't care about you?" Answers included everything from bad cafeteria food to teachers not taking into consideration how all students learn - not being flexible in their teaching techniques. Another comment included that teachers too often teach through homework rather than in the classroom. How many of us wen through that? Go home and read chapter six because we will discuss it tomorrow. Yeah. Been there. Done that.
One question in particular really got an insightful answer. The question was: "Why don't you communicate with your parents?" One high school girl started by explaining that she had been exploring the poverty rate of the county, which she cited as 45%. She then followed by saying that she thinks many parents are intimidated by their child when the child reaches a higher level of achievement than the parent. There was more to the answer, but I thought that was pretty amazing.
I was so looking forward to the strawberry shortcake I made tonight, but good lord my gut hurts. I think I will be skipping this one. Is it really possible that taco soup moves that quickly through the system? Oy vay!
I gotta run. Holy schills.
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