Almost Over

I am almost over a huge stress bump.

I took my state exam yesterday, so no more studying and anxiety.

The National Honor Society Induction was Thursday evening, so no more late evenings for that.

The Black History Program is next week, and rehearsals haven't been happening, so that's a bit of stress (although no Honor Society and no exam).

Grades are due tomorrow morning at 9am. I finished grading the essays and averaging grades (1/3 of my kids did not pass this six weeks - they're not doing homework or turning in assignments). So that huge pile of essays that has been tormenting me for three weeks is now non-existant. All I have to do is bubble in the grades, which I'm going to start on as soon as I get offline.

Running: yeah, that hasn't been happening this week. The only running I did was yesterday.

Stats: 6 miles (exactly, thanks to the Garmin).
Time: 1 hour, 22 minutes.
Intervals: I decided to switch things up. Instead of my 4-1 intervals (run 4, walk 1), I changed to run a mile, walk a minute, run a mile, walk a minute. This made for some nice times in the beginning and some bad times in the end, because I was getting tired. But I'm going to do this at least once a week to strengthen up my running and to learn to beat the fatigue.

In fact, I'm naming my different runs.

Speed runs: that would be my speed sessions on Tuesday. Focus on speed.
Endurance runs: my runs around Rice. I'm going to try to get farther and farther without taking a rest break. I'm relying too much on those walk breaks. So during the week I'll work on eliminating them.
Distance runs: my Saturday long runs. Since I'm focusing on distance, I'll switch to 5-1 intervals, with the last mile running straight in.

The Rodeo run is Saturday. I'm going to park my car at Memorial, jog easily to the race, run the race at a good speed (I hope) and then jog easily back to my car. That's a nice 16-17 mile day. Perfect for my training!

Gotta go. Schoolwork is still calling.

Cheers!