Back to Normal ?????

I realized something about myself today. As the test scores are more important and the class size bigger, I have completely kept myself sane by running a spring marathon the last two years and training with SBRR. This year none of the races matched up with a time I could be away from school, so I just ran on my own and got a lot of sleep. I also have been very unhappy and probably not a very good teacher as a result.

After almost a full year of not showing up for Tuesday morning track workouts with SBRR, I got my scared little butt out of bed at 4:50 and made it in time for the 5:30 warm up to be on the track by 6:00. The warm up felt as if I had never been gone. Same route. A few more people had joined the early early group, but I knew them all. I almost got Arnie killed by a speeding car when he followed me into the intersection of Hollister and Turnpike.... Yikes! But, other than that, it was all good, real good.

At the track I hoped that Rusty wouldn't really notice me and I could just kind of follow a group at a pace that would calm my nerves, but lucky me that Rusty is such an observant and able eyed guy in the dark. He spotted me with a big smile and said I could run with Hillary. We were to do 6X600 at 97 pace. OK, I can do that... Then it was a 2 mile at 1:40 pace! Yikes. I could probably do that but... oh so scared to hurt myself the first day out. So, I did the 600's with Hillary. They were good.... smooth.... just fine. Hillary was the watch girl as I am now an old blind lady. I think she said we were 3 sec. off the first 600 but then we got on pace and maybe even went faster. I really have no clue and really don't care. When it came to the 2 mile I purposely didn't run with Hillary and teamed up to run the 7:10 pace group. I knew I wouldn't hurt myself with 1.47's but 1.40's or faster... nope not gonna do it the first day out. So, I didn't. The 1.47 felt great. Not a problem. After the 2mile I hopped back into Hillary's 3x600 that she claims were at pace or faster. I felt smooth, I felt fine. Yippppeeeeee! It had been a very long time since I had felt so smooth running around the track. Maybe all that core work really did balance me out a bit. Yipppeeee... Let's hear it for 2 legged running. There was nothing to be scared of after all.

So if you are not a runner and have read this far, I am amazed. Now you get the punch line. Today was a fantastic day at school. I don't know if anyone noticed but me, but I felt like myself again.