I Probably Should Make My Blog Public again

This was just a steady long run.  Avg. pace 9:08.  My heart really wasn't in it.  I just wanted to be done.

This has been a tiring week.  I was working on a big paper and a project, grading research paper, holding my student teacher's hand, dreading class this weekend.  But now I'm done with one class for the semester, I'm almost done with my research papers, and spring break is 2 weeks away.  I think the rest of the year is downhill from here.  Can you believe there are only about 9 weeks left of the school year?

I did the same workout this Tuesday as I did last Tues (except I did it right).  Warm up was 2 miles, then 4 x 1 mile at 1/2 marathon pace (400 recovery), 6 x 200 at a faster pace (100 recovery) and then about a 2 mile cool down.

Warm up was at about 9 min pace.  Splits on the 4 fast miles were 7:45, 7:41, 7:43, 7:38.  My 1/2 marathon goal is 8 min pace, but I was feeling frisky.  Then my 200 time goal was 53 seconds and I did all of them either in 47 or 53 seconds.  Cool down was slow--right around 9:45 pace.

It was almost 60 when I started out and I was way overdressed because I was intimidated by the wind.  I had to stop after the first fast mile to take off one of the shirts I was wearing (a cold gear shirt.  What was I thinking?).  A t-shirt felt good.  I did wear warmer pants on the bottom and they were fine.  I also kept on my ear band because it helped to keep my glasses in place (and sometimes the wind bothers my ears).

I had a dream last night that I was invited to Sasha's house for dinner and when I met him, he was a short, wrinkly old man, and I was incredulous about how he could run so fast.  There were also a bunch of other people there, but no one talked to me because they were all mad at me for some reason.  Then the house, which was 1/2 normal, but had this impossibly high dome made of bricks on it, fell down on us when a huge gust of wind blew.  I have no idea why I dreamed that.

5 cross training miles.  

The past two days I was subbing in the assistant principal's office.  It was interesting.  I really just basically took notes for him, but it's sometimes comical what happens down there, and other times you just gotta roll your eyes at the goings-on. 

But while I was downstairs, there was a big mutiny in my 8th period class over how my student teacher graded a quiz.  She was really upset, but the kids were out of line--and I'm sure I'll hear from some of them today, but I'm backing her.  My students are just seniors who don't want to do anything.  One kid walked out of the class saying, "I hate you!   I hate life!  I hate everything!" 

This is an 18 year old, mind you. 

I'm looking forward to today (eyes rolling in sarcasm).

Honestly, this was the worst run I've had in a long time, and I'm not quite sure I actually understand what happened.  

When I was getting ready, it started hailing outside, so I headed to the gym.  Once I got there my plan was a warm up, 3 miles at 1/2 marathon pace, 2 800s at 10K pace, and 6 200s.  

But the run was bad from the start.  9:40 pace felt too fast.  I warmed up for 2 miles, then sped up the treadmill to 8 min pace.  After .28, I just stopped.  I tried to talk myself into it, but I just couldn't get going again.  I thought maybe if I started slow and then worked my way into 8 min. pace I could do it, but it just wasn't happening.  So I just dropped the speed on the treadmill to a tolerable pace, every once in a while I would speed it up a little, and got to 5.5 and then hightailed it out of there.

It was really hot in there and my hands were swelling up.  I felt thirsty even though I drank an entire water bottle after the failed attempt at going faster.  I don't think I drank enough water during the day, and I'm not sure if maybe eating a light dinner before hand was the culprit.  I have also recently lost 3 pounds--even though I have been making a concerted effort to eat more because I think my body fat percentage is interfering with my cycle.  My percentage isn't ridiculously low (and it was measured electronically, not using calipers), but I've been interested in what I've been reading about body fat and pregnancy.

Now I will just try to forget it happened.  Maybe I'll do that workout on Saturday, but maybe not.

It was a busy day.  After school i ran home, got the kids and my nephew, dropped them off at school with a teacher friend so I could go to an eye appointment, picked the kids back up and took them to dinner, and then went back to the school to watch our production of Godspell.  It was great--and the kids behaved well, even though Eli got a little restless towards the end.

Then went home and did 6 cross training miles while I waited for Chuck to get home, and stopped when I got bored of waiting for him.

6 slow miles and then 6 200s with a jog in between. My watch was charging, so I just had to guess at distances.