At first, I was writing my Target Practice posts on Mondays. It made sense to me to write out my weekly goals on the first day of the week. Then, the school year started back up and Mondays got crazy busy, so I decided to move Target Practice to Sunday night. This Sunday came and went with no time for blogging, so here we are on Tuesday. If you like consistency in your blogs, then maybe this is the wrong place for you.
Me, too, Bearcat. Me too.
(As always, thanks to FIt. Fun. Femme. for letting me jump on the T.P. bandwagon. That phrase sounded better in my head.)
Let’s look at last week’s goals. I’m grading myself because I’m back in teacher mode:
Life: Blog three times. I made it twice. Grade: D.
Health: Eat clean, including avoiding the candy dishes at work. Overall, I did okay. I did hit the candy dish twice, but two bite-size pieces of chocolate in a week will probably not cause any major damage. I also ate old-fashioned (refined) spaghetti at a fund-raiser dinner and shared some cake with J at our nephew’s baptism. That’s moderation, not failure. Grade: A-.
Fitness: If you’ve read these posts for a few weeks, I bet you know what my goal was: run a lot, strength train twice, yoga once, stretch/foam roll once. Last week looked like this:
Monday: AM – 8-mile fartlek run PM – Muscle Works class (which was killer last week!)
Tuesday: AM- 6 miles easy PM- 30 minutes yoga
Wednesday: AM- 10 miles — 1.2-mile tempo intervals
Thursday: AM- 6 miles easy PM – 60-minute strength workout in my basement because I was too dang hot and tired to go to the gym
Friday: AM- 5 miles easy PM- Considered stretching/rolling and did not
Saturday: 21-mile run
Sunday: Rest
Totals: 56 miles run, 2 hours strength, 30 minutes yoga, another fail on the stretching. Grade: B.
Now, for this week:
Life: Let’s try blogging three times again and see if I can do it. We had standardized testing yesterday and today (yes, it’s only the second week of school. Welcome to the world of testing education), so I was able to get caught up on grading. You know, until tomorrow, when all my students turn stuff in again. But maybe the smaller grading stack will open up blogging time.
Health: I have got to figure this sleeping thing out. I go to bed like a 90-year-old, but getting up at 4:15 to work out is still rough, and I’m tired and afraid I’m going to catch the nasty diseases my students are already spreading about. I realize that I could run after work, but after work it is 95 degrees and stays that way until dark. Weather.com says the temps will start lowering next week. Don’t let me down, September. I’m counting on you.
Fitness: Well, I’m just gonna keep on repeating the same old goal until I hit it. Creative goal-setting is not for me.
Do you feel like you get enough sleep?
What’s something you want to accomplish this week?
Rural Running Redhead 
The teacher food situation is terrible! At our weekly PD’s, the school provides food and so far it has been either ice cream bars/party pails, or bowls of bite-sized chocolates placed on the table in front of us. Torture. So far, resistance has been successful.
Good job with the resistance! It is terrible but sometimes I need that chocolate. 🙂
I never get enough sleep, but that’s ok! Good luck with the TP this week!
Ah! I love Sheldon!!! My coworker looks exactly like Sheldon and he went to Cal Tech too! My coworker is only half as “special” though!
Enough sleep…uh no. I don’t know how you are getting up so early and still having such a big smile on your face when I drop in to disrupt your class. I am proud of you!
Well, it helped that you “disrupted” my most laid-back class, and only two of them weren’t out learning to be photographers. 🙂 It was fun to see you mid-day!
I am working on being positive about work because I’m a bit money stressed and still haven’t heard about anything besides substituting and school starts on Tuesday… Positivity will get me through 🙂
Bahaha – the Sheldon picture made me laugh out loud. I feel like my targets are really similar to yours and I love that! Moderation is definitely not failure, in fact it’s a win in my book.
I get enough sleep, but that’s because I work from home and don’t have to wake up early and look like a normal person. I think some people are just programed to want to wake up later regardless of how many hours they have slept. Maybe?
If it’s any consolation, I would totally give you an A+ for your workouts. You workout twice a day most days! And teach all day! You are Wonder Woman in my eyes!
Haha thanks! The double workouts are the only way I ever strength train or do yoga. I’ll never do them after a run despite my best intentions.