It has been veeeery chilly here the past week. Yesterday it finally warmed up to 31 degrees! :o) It has been in the low 20's for most of the week and dropping down to near 0 at night. I went to scrape the ice off my car this morning at 8:30 and my wet hair froze. The fountains everywhere are all frozen over, and I would like to know why...WHY is it necessary to turn them on when it isn't going to reach anywhere near above freezing??
I went in for another interview yesterday afternoon at a place in Boise called AFI (Advocates For Inclusion). It would be as a developmental therapy technician, working with kids and adults with disabilities. Basically teaching them important life skills so that they can be functionally independent in life. I believe it went well....I think the only reason I may not get it is because they are looking for mostly people who can work the hours of 3:30PM-6:30PM, and my other job at the YMCA starts at 3:15 and goes until 5:30 or 6....OR I have practice at 5:45. We will see. It would be a fun job. I also found out Monday, in a meeting with my supervisor, that my hours will be increasing at the Y. I will become the head of the Youth Enrichment Programs at Siena Elementary (where I am at now) until they find a replacement...she will be leaving at the end of January. SO I have been given a lot more responsibility which will increase my hours. :o) Right now I am teaching a science class on Mondays and Wednesdays and helping supervise in the Chess class on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I MAY be teaching a Middle School Madness hangout session in the gym where we would do a bunch of team builders and fun activities, but so far no one has signed up for that class, so that is up in the air.
This week we start our new phase of training. I will be running about 60 miles a week now and workouts will be Tuesday and Friday nights. The hard workouts will be our minutes work....which is a lot easier to explain in person, but I shall try here. :o) We will do a warm up of about 2-2 1/2 miles and then go right into the minutes, which looks like this: 1-2-3-3-2-1 (this is Friday's workout for this week). Basically you run 1 minute at 85% of our race pace effort, then equal rest, meaning 1 minute of 65% race effort. Then after the 1 minute at 65% we will go right into the 2 minutes of 85%, then 2 minutes at 65%. After we have completed the last minute (in this case) of 85% and then at 65% we will go right into a 2- 2 1/2 mile cool down. OR we will run right back to the track and do a 1200m interval....but that is not at the end of every minutes workout. I think only the times we do a hilly minutes session. I know...confusing. :o) It's a lot more simple than it may look. They are pretty short workouts, but more intense. We are having a seminar this Saturday morning from 9-12 on the minutes workout and what they do for us in our training. Should be interesting! My coach is really good about explaining why he has us doing the workouts, runs, and training he does. He has taught at a couple Olympic conferences so his talks/discussions/ideas are pretty popular. :o)
Well, I am off to study a little bit for the GRE test that I will hopefully be taking at the beginning of February. I am planning on going back to get my masters in the fall. I will be attending BSU (assuming I get accepted...and get all of my stuff in on time) and will start the masters program for Exercise and Sport Science/Kinesiology for Exercise Physiology.
Hope you are all doing well!!
I will also add the website where I track all of my training. You can go on here and see all of my PR's, workouts, paces, times.....etc. It is strands (based in Spain, but also started in Corvallis my last year and a half there)...my site is: http://www.strands.com/mishlerr9
