Quote Originally Posted by Veronica View Post
Friday and Saturday did not go as I had hoped. Friday I stayed at work later than I had planned because one of my students is turning into quite the drama queen. So no swim on Friday.

Saturday morning I woke up with my stomach just feeling weird. But the time it felt better, it was time to get ready to work DMD.

Working a rest stop is a lot of work! But we got a lot of thank you's. Our weather has been weird; temperatures have been up and down the last few weeks. It goes up into the 80s for a couple of days, then back down to the low 60s. It was warm yesterday and our rest stop comes 4 miles into a 5 mile climb, 130 miles into the ride, with an average grade of 8.5% The rest stop is in this spot because it's where the ham operator can set up. There is no cell phone coverage out there. The riders were very happy to see us. We had Popsicles!

I have got to get into the pool this week.

V.

Working and training when you're a teacher is a challenge but the good thing is that we have a more flexible schedule. I've been running with the school Running Club at noon twice a week and that is giving me more free time after school to do other things (like marking) The kids only run 3km so I head out as soon as the bell rings and do one loop before they join me. Then I do another loop after they're done. I think I might keep running 5k at noon twice a week even after the Running Club program is finished.

Good luck with your training plans!

Can I throw in just one quiet warning about your running? When I first started running, I felt great and nothing hurt so I kept amping it up and it felt fine. It took awhile (3 months) before things started hurting and I was sidelined by injury. Again, I waited awhile, did all the PT stuff, then started back running, starting up again too fast and again, I had the injuries. This time, I've been adding on extremely slowly and have managed to stay more or less injury-free for 4 months. I just WISH I had understood this clearly in the first place and had built up slowly like everyone told me (10% rule) - I would have been waaaay further ahead than I am now if I had.

Now, you may be in way better shape than me and your increases may be absolutely fine so take this advice with a grain of salt. But I just had to say it anyway.