Penny Thoughtful: All Things Books and Running
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Running Deeper – Base Building Week 6 of 6
Those six weeks passed much more quickly than I imagined. Since I am writing this post on Monday, the first day of San Francisco training with my old coach, self-coaching works less than well for me. I will save further ruminations on that front for an upcoming post about returning to work with a coach…
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Work/Life Balance
People seek the perfect work/life balance as if it were the fountain of youth. In a profession such as teaching, people long for the ability to come home from work without bringing work home with them, long for something that seems incongruous with doing the best we can for those in our care. If you…
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Running Deeper – Base Building Week 5 of 6
A few things, once again, got in the way of a full work out as I had once imagined when I wrote out the base building training plan. For the things that happened, I would say that this was a good, solid week of training. Monday: 45 minutes with 4 x 30 seconds hard effort…
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For the Love of Books.
On the first day of March I found myself in a conference room at Furman attending the Furman Consortium, listening to Penny Kittle speak and becoming inspired beyond what I could have ever forecasted. I found out a mere 24 hours before that I would be attending along with the rest of the English department.…
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Running Deeper – Week 4 of 6
Various life events have shaped my training for the past week, as they have the tendency to do. Things are moving towards marathon training and I think I might finally be ready to really dive into training. With enough things on my plate, however, I will likely once again, if possible, recruit the help of…
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Perpetually Overwhelmed
Recent weeks have both confirmed my decision to return to teaching and to dive deep while doing so and caused me to question how much I can maintain without collapsing under the pressure. Unlike my first teaching go around, I do not feel like I am drowning with now way to breathe. At the same…
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Running Deeper – Base Building Week 3 of 6
This week illustrated the difficulty I have found in the proverbial work/life balance. This week also illuminated the tremendous drain that emotional taxing situations have on a body physically. I am thankful for the opportunity for reflection and growth. Monday 40 minutes regular After writing last week’s post, I woke on Sunday morning to a…
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Procrastination Elimination – Something Has to Change
I started this year knowing that something needs to change if I want to achieve real change and growth. Recently, I identified one of the biggest stumbling blocks in my path, something I always knew I had a propensity for, procrastination, procrastination brought on and aided by distraction. I started weeks looking ahead and seeing…
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Running Deeper – Base Building Week 2 of 6
This week took an unexpected twist and ended up not being deeper in the sense of mileage but definitely deeper in the sense of reflection. Let’s start with the one day that went according to “plan.” Monday 50 minutes regular My calves felt tight, likely due to a strong performance at GHS the Saturday before.…
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Run Hard Columbia Half Marathon 2018 Race Recap
Race #143 Half Marathon #47 South Carolina Half Marathon #34 2018 Race #4 2018 Half Marathon #3 Run Hard Columbia Half Marathon #1 At one point earlier this week, I wondered if I would make it to this race at all. I will talk more about it in my weekly recap but on Tuesday, I…
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