Over the Curb

Quite literally in fact. Yesterday (Monday) Matt convinced me to go for a bike ride with him. I finally agreed after the condition that he would look at the bike and see if he could make it actually shift. He must have the magic fingers as he got the gears all working! So we headed out and as soon as we got on the back trails Mother Nature decided we needed a cold shower....which lasted right up until we got back to the house 32 minutes later! Even though it was a cold wet ride I was smiling and my biggest accomplishment was riding over (ie down) a curb. (32 minutes, 131 calories, 107 avg heart rate!)


Today after my first day of teaching 9th grade special ed biology I went out for a short even though I would have loved to curl up and take a nap. My hips and thighs were still sore so I went a mile shorter than my schedule. But, since I am running 6 miles in the am I decided it wasn't worth pushing it. (run4 miles, 41 minutes, 10:15min/mile, 375 calories, 160 avg heart rate). I (as usual) pushed my pace the last bit of the run and managed to get down to a 8:26min/mile. Today's run, even though my heart rate was lower, felt hard. Hopefully tomorrow's run will help keep me limber.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin,
barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here
to worship what is known, but to question it. 
~Jacob Bronowski