Well, last week shook out pretty nicely. I finished all my training runs, including my longest run ever of 16 miles. I finally heard back from our contractor who should be coming today to fix the shower door. The animal trapper is coming today to expel our squirrels and it is not costing an arm and a leg. Mid week was kind of rocky but the week ended nicely with a great weekend.
I am loving Hal Higdon's training plan. This week has started like last with a short run on the treadmill. Like most people, I tend to run much faster on the treadmill and it is really making an impact on my pace. The first 11 miles of my long run were all in the low nine minute per mile range! At the half marathon point I was at 2:01 hours which is only slightly off 1:58 (my best half marathon time to date). The last three miles of the 16 were brutal and I ended up run/walking those last three BUT its still an improvement from my usual come a part after ten miles! So my "push" point has definitely increased. The run took a lot out of me, probably did not help that I ended up finishing a mile away from home and so still had a long walk. Next up is research nutrition and power gels.
Can't wait to see our contractor and get the shower door fixed. I will be so disappointed if he can't do it. The only thing that could make my domestic life better at this point is if one of these squirrels gets trapped in the trap that our neighbor lent us. We are so overrun with squirrels, its insane or at least its making me go insane. Last night I opened my front door with my 2 year old in my arms (she insists on a walk in the carriage to fall asleep) and a squirrel (at least I think it was a squirrel) jumped out of her carriage!! The trapper comes this afternoon to set up a one way door so the squirrels get out of the hole they chewed in our soffit. Next we plug up the holes and pray they never come back. I do not like all this nature to close to me.
Class #2 of Sunday school went great. I have 9 kids (one is my own kid) in class. I feel really good about the fact that literally half of the kids (not including my own, of course) in my class have told their parents that they really like my class and the parents were nice enough to tell me. I feel like I am definitely on the right path with the teaching. I followed the same format as last week with a coloring page, workbook pages, then circle time, followed by talking about a saint's life with complimentary activity. Workbook went a little long this week because I wanted to do three chapters to finish the unit but the saint activity was too short. The kids seemed really excited for circle time. Last week I noticed not everyone was into the singing so this week I brought in maracas. Maracas were a big hit! So lucky I had them left over from a birthday party. They seemed to help the kids remember the words of the songs more. Finally, everyone participated in "pop quiz" time where I just go over the key points of the lesson and everyone gets to yell the answer. This week we talked about St. Francis (patron saint of animals, I think), there was a bit of an animal theme since our workbook work was "Creation of Animals" so the kids got to act out their favorite animal and we all guessed what it was. I can't tell if I'm an awesome teacher or I just got a great group of kids. They are so enthusiastic about everything!
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