7:45 PM - Dark, cool, breezy. Temperature of 49 degrees. After yesterday's marathon of unit plan work, I was pretty beat and felt like my brain was Jell-O. Today at school the kids were great, albeit a bit talkative, especially since they get a four day weekend this week. Interesting that we celebrate and memorialize Columbus, a despicable human if there ever was one, and the "finder" of the Americas, though Vikings made landfall four hundred years before. Oh well, water under the bridge.
I have been working especially hard on my unit plan in preparation of solo week at the first placement. Am absolutely spent. I don't see how teachers could actually do a unit plan for each unit they teach. There are so many things to do just for one lesson, especially in the format that St. Rose wants me to. Decided to get a jog in, so I laced up and went to the track.
When I got to the track, it was dark, not like the moonshadow run earlier this week on Tuesday morning and night. As I was pulling into the track, I saw the shadow of the "Ghost Runner" and his 18-wheel rig sitting in the parking lot. I missed him though, because aside from hearing him shuffle one lap on the track, he was gone and soon I saw the truck hang a right out of the parking lot and on to better things. It was better this way though, because I like the quiet. It allows me to decompress.
I warmed up with 2.19 miles in my trainers before stopping to stretch. First two miles were: 8:37 and 8:29. After stretching, I pulled on my Vibrams for an 800 workout. Wanted to get a couple faster 800s in, without expending too much energy so that I'd be dead come Sunday. Just enough to let off some steam. Did 4 x 800s with 200m recoverys inbetween. Splits were:
- .51: 3:16 (6:29/mile) - .13 recovery in 1:09
- .51: 3:14 (6:19/mile) - .12 recovery in 1:12
- .52: 3:10 (6:09/mile) - .12 recovery in 1:14
- .51: 2:57 (5:46/mile) - .13 recovery in 1:08
Changed back into my Brooks's trainers and cooled down the rest of the run. Did .26 in 2:21 @ 9:04 pace and then hit the lap button at the 5 mile mark. Did a bit more than two miles more of cool down. Next two splits were 8:38 and 8:15. Stretched and drove home to do laundry and rest up for conferences in the a.m. Note for fun: max speed today was 4:51 a mile pace!
Total Time: 55:55 Total Distance: 7.07 miles Average Pace: 7:55 | 
